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The only purpose of the wad is to eject the shot from the barrel. It's done it's job as soon as the shot exits from the muzzle.

 

Disintegrating wads are quite common today as proper fibre wads would be too expensive to load. I find Express fibres OK and Hull are really good.

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Well one of the lads i shoot with had a slab that were like confetti. So he did an experiment he put half the slab sat next to a radiator for a week and left the others in his garage .

The one that had been near the radiator were OK the ones that had been stored in the garage were like confetti..

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Well one of the lads i shoot with had a slab that were like confetti. So he did an experiment he put half the slab sat next to a radiator for a week and left the others in his garage .

The one that had been near the radiator were OK the ones that had been stored in the garage were like confetti..

 

 

Which cartridges had more recoil, the dry one's or the wet ones?

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would think the wet wads would swell a little bit and increase the pressure??

 

 

How are the wads going to become wet, they are in a plastic tube in a cardboard box. I was being pedantic with my comment about wet and dry.

 

I think that hawkeye is having a wind up moment :whistling:

 

I've shot many thousands of fibre wad cartriges and it's only the "cheaper" one's that become confetti. Try Hull Pro Fibre if you want an excellent fibre load. I use Express High Velocity and there is no confetti with them.

 

You get what you pay for.

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How are the wads going to become wet, they are in a plastic tube in a cardboard box. I was being pedantic with my comment about wet and dry.

 

I think that hawkeye is having a wind up moment :whistling:

 

I've shot many thousands of fibre wad cartriges and it's only the "cheaper" one's that become confetti. Try Hull Pro Fibre if you want an excellent fibre load. I use Express High Velocity and there is no confetti with them.

 

You get what you pay for.

ok damp or mildly moist!! ;) the superfasts are ok you get the odd bit of confetti but they are ok still not a touch on the victory challenger plas wads i will use the superfasts up and continue my quest for fibre wad happiness ;)

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Mike , I was using the fibre ones at first got through about 50 ish I was very impressed I thought I was using 21g not 28, so I got 2 more boxes from the club but plastic wad ones still extremely impressed with the little recoil it had.

You know I've been using Cheddites for about a year or so now plus some eley Olympics , but these Hull comp x were definitely different :yes:

On the skeet range they the clays were being vaporised !

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Have a look at Fiocchi Top is. The fibre wad very rarely fragments.

 

 

Fiocchi Top One - Budget Clay Shotgun Cartridges

By: Don Brunt

Fiocchi’s recent resurgence in the UK is no accident, Graham Morris formerly of Eley knows what makes a good shell and he has had a hand in producing a range tailored to the UK market. The Top One is a solid performer at a reasonable price and consequently has been selling well around the country. It produces good kills at range without being too tight for closer shots, not the fastest here but a good all round sporting load, also available in a 24 gram version.

 

 

http://www.norgascartridges.co.uk

 

webber

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Both CompX and Superfasts vary from batch to batch in how much confetti is produced. The first lot I bought produced it the second didn't. I bought a third lot (6 thousand Superfasts) last year and they produced none at all, ditto the thousands of CompX bought by a mate at the same time.

 

We both bought more of our respective favourites in February / March this year and they both now produce some confetti. Not enough to make either of us want to change to another shell though!

 

Damp storage has little to do with it as my cartridges are stored in a centrally heated house, it can only be the difference in the materials used for the wads which is clearly different between one batch and another. The plaswads in both are excellent but not allowed on most of the grounds I use.

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