Photo Degradable Plastic Wads

[fortune82]

How long do Hull Cartridge PDP wads take to break down in sunlight?

 

The reason I ask is that 5 weeks ago I had a good stand on a shoot and went through a fair few Hull high pheasant pdp wad cartridges. The wads are still lying around 5 weeks later. Is it a weeks or months time scale?

 

Thanks

[Floating Chamber]

How long do Hull Cartridge PDP wads take to break down in sunlight?

 

The reason I ask is that 5 weeks ago I had a good stand on a shoot and went through a fair few Hull high pheasant pdp wad cartridges. The wads are still lying around 5 weeks later. Is it a weeks or months time scale?

 

Thanks

 

Longer than that!

[utectok]

The whole process only works in sunshine so if burried under leaves no good I wrote to hull about them and my assesment is the are an expensive wast of time! Fibre is ok patterns just as well as cup wads these days IMHO

[Vince Green]

All plastic degrades in time. The only question is how long. You are looking at a years probably even with the so called degradable wads. Why not just use fibre?

Plastic wads were introduced years ago for no other reason than because the manufacturers wanted them. They were cheaper, easier to make and worked better in their automated loading machines. They knew however that shooters were pretty much set in their ways and would be resistant to change. So they launched into a massive load of hype about better patterns etc etc to counter the resistance and win them over. Thats mostly all it has ever been, hype.

Edited December 19, 2010 by Vince Green

[Guest cookoff013]

plastic photo degrades when UV is on them. sunlight contains uv. dependent on the exposure they will degrade faster.

for instance, now it is dark, less sunlight less uv. takes longer to degrade.

 

however in the summer, they will be gone in 4 months. as there is more sunlight /uv.

 

plastic wads are prefered by manufacturers because they load better and they keep the pressure better. so less powder is used.

plastic will always be better. cups protect low antimony-soft shot. and improving patterns. thats why most manufactures have harder and harder shot, sometimes up to 7% antimony.

 

i wish i could shoot plastic all the time, but i dont, from a ballistic point of view they are better. from a environmental point of view, they are awful.

[sitsinhedges]

I have a box of Gamebore cartridges loaded with Impact Tungsten Matrix in a plastic shotcup.

 

What's the point in that.

 

You can't poison the swans but it's OK to choke the horses

[utectok]

And you can't get any " normal" steel loads either with fiber cups only hi performance loads from gamebore at a price