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Originally Posted by Stan Hoover
Nice targets Milton,
You obviously do way more patterning than I do, so I’m sure you’re right.
In my limited experience with fiber wads under shot, I thought they pretty much disintegrated after exiting the muzzle.
some of the RST 10 gauge loads looked like confetti being thrown, what ever filler they were using.
Stan
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I read on a muzzleloading forum that sometimes with the 1/2" wads, shot gets trapped in front of them because the wad is trying to push through the pattern as it goes down range. They said thats why they usually segment their fiber wads into 1/4" pieces as they fall away from the shot column better.
Honestly all the stuff I read about how shot and wads perform etc I think the only way to know for sure would be setting up a 120k fps camera.
I was figuring most trees here dont get taller than 60ft/20 yards so when hunting squirrels or raccoons or any tree dweller your ranges are going to be fairly close. We do have some pines that are taller than that, but the animals seem to prefer the longer spanning branches of the oak trees as well I suppose pine trees dont offer as much coverage for them.
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