T and F shot for the 8 ga

[Milton C Starr]

Well I had noticed the outside diameter of the 10 ga hulls are almost the same as the SP8 wads. So I took a few of my old fired 10 ga hulls and cut some 1.450" sections off of them and seated a 10ga fiberwad in the bottom of the hull section. I made them the length to hold 1 3/4 oz of the Ts. They seem to crimp better because the overshot card is sitting on top of the shotcup instead of the shot. Normally wads are slit but I noticed the SP8 wads arent and I have seen 10 gauge wads loaded like that. From what I read about slitting wads you want each petal to be cut a equal distance from each other, I have seen a tool for this. Its really just a dowel or pipe with 4 razors might look into getting one at some point or anything really that cuts a + shape pattern.

The only pattern testing I have seen with the nickel plated Fs were out of a 12 gauge and the guy was able to get them to hold a pattern out to 80 yards.
Im thinking I could make shotcups out of flexible filament, problem is that stuff can be extremely temperamental to work with. Doing the rough math it would cost around $25 worth of filament to make 280 wads. It would be time consuming but a option if you dont like waiting on them to hit the market. You could also order custom paper tubes and make you're own biodegradable wads, I was reading recently some farmers were tired of hunters leaving all their plastic wads in their fields and the cows eating them. Which a major concern I hear locally with farmers and letting people hunt their land is above all else not causing any harm to their livestock.