Felt wads are good stuff for a number of applications, card wads also. I've not tried it with balls, but ...

BP and flat base bullets get a card wad if loaded via cartridge or ramrod. The muzzle loaders get a lubed felt wad and card.

Smokeless lead from a straightwall case, greaser or paper patched get a card wad. Soft lead and paper patch prospers immensely from a card wad if you drive it hard. 300 grains/1600 fps from a .44 is hard. I suggest to you able bodied and competent casters, that if you have not tried paper patch it is a worthy endeavor. Take 90% of what you know about nekkid grease groove shooting/loading and stuff it in file 13.

Bottle neck cases get a hearty Hail Mary!

Don't use card/felt with a suppressor. Not evah!

A lubed felt wad might work with a round ball but you'll need to keep the powder off the lube. Mebbe a Dacron tuft betwixt would do that.


Last edited by DigitalDan; 05/18/17.
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