Range results part 2

[Milton C Starr]

These are what I will pattern next time, 8 ga with a 4 slit wad with the #5s.

[ArtS]

I've seen several postings recently on the fringe gun boards about making home defense slugs by loading regular shot loads and sealing the case with melted parafin. Gives me a little pause about usig overshot wads and sealing with a thin liquid glue/cement/waterproofing. Test targets I have seen show they do just what you show, exept there are few individual shot, due to the entire shot load being saturated. They are supposed to fragment on a wall and not go through two or three.

I have also seen mention that this can happen if you use a thick cushion wad.THe first layers of shot can be impressed into it with a heavy load or high wad pressure. A lot of people recomend an overshot wad over the cushion wad for that reason.

If you are sealing/cementing the overshot wad, it may have been a lump of shot from the top of the shot string rather than a wad.

[Milton C Starr]

Originally Posted by Arthur Shaffer

I've seen several postings recently on the fringe gun boards about making home defense slugs by loading regular shot loads and sealing the case with melted parafin. Gives me a little pause about usig overshot wads and sealing with a thin liquid glue/cement/waterproofing. Test targets I have seen show they do just what you show, exept there are few individual shot, due to the entire shot load being saturated. They are supposed to fragment on a wall and not go through two or three.

I have also seen mention that this can happen if you use a thick cushion wad.THe first layers of shot can be impressed into it with a heavy load or high wad pressure. A lot of people recomend an overshot wad over the cushion wad for that reason.

If you are sealing/cementing the overshot wad, it may have been a lump of shot from the top of the shot string rather than a wad.

Ive had some wads I didnt slit do that recently, they were barely just starting to open up at 40-50 yards. I had 4" patterns but most of the shot was staying in side the wad and slugging. I think what happened there is I was playing around with different glues for the overshot card, but I think it was causing the overshot card to glue to the top of the shotcup basically making it a enclosed cylinder.

I have seen a few of the muzzleloader shotgun guys say they dont even use a wad they load the shot right on top of the nitro card. To me though that sounds like a deform alot of your shot. I would like to know though at what point do you get diminishing returns with fiber wads with setback. I have noticed with fiber wads if you can recover one after firing they are alot softer, seems they are tenderized when going down the barrel.


I have some paper shotcups curing right now for the 8 ga I am curious how they will turn out.