shot/overpowder card

[d17 len]

Could anyone please tell me where to purchase 1/16" and 1/1/8" card suitable for over powder and shot cards to be cut with wad cutters,thanks

[saddler]

art/craftshops

[EMcC]

I used to use the cardboard from 250 cartridge boxes for the over powder wad and the cardboard from the 25 cartridge boxes for over shot, it seemed about the ideal thickness.

[turbo33]

I didn't think you could use just card over the powder charge as I thought the o/p card forms part of the gas seal Anyway, you'll find a variety of card in the cupboard in the way of tea bag boxes, cereal packets etc. I've used this on top of the fibre wad to raise the stack slightly if a bit short. I haven't used it as o/shot, but I don't see why it wouldn't be ok. After all the faffing about, I use ready cut ones from FES. At £7.50 per thousand, its isn't worth the hassle for me.

Edited November 13, 2013 by turbo33

[sitsinhedges]

I believe the over powder card just provides enough stiffness behind the fibre wad to support it and stop it disintegrating and that the wad itself expands to provide the gas seal. Personally I use obturators in place of the card which work like a plastic wad gas seal and are more efficient than the fibre alone so use less powder and they cost less too. So do many fibre cartridge manufacturers.

[Underdog]

Beermats are good too.

 

U.

[turbo33]

Beermats are good too.

 

U.

 

I wondered where they had all disappeared to

[Lord Geordie]

I get a good supply of thick card from work, in the form of old advertising boards. I even have a 12g and 20g wad cutter

[Ropemunky]

I cut my over shot card from old cartridge boxes too.

But I get my nitro cards/over powder cards from a guy on here (00Buck)

[longgun]

I think both OS and OP cards must be a bit stiff. I cut 1 mm gray cardboard sheets for OS and cardboard corner protectors (3-4 mm) for OP cards. By the way my wad cutter has 19 mm diameter.

[Underdog]

For OP cards just use as many as you wish of the OS cards! Thats what I doos

 

U.

[longgun]

For OP cards just use as many as you wish of the OS cards! Thats what I doos

 

U.

But OP cards commonly have larger diameters because of a reasonable fact.

[Underdog]

But OP cards commonly have larger diameters because of a reasonable fact.

Fair enough....mine are cut from my own tools which I aim to get .030" over bore diameter.

 

Do by all means measure or ask the size if you buy, but in all honesty that compressed wad during firing will seal the bore.

 

My favourite muzzleloader load chain is just a few OS cards as a wad. A long wad came about to simply take space up in a shell as smaller amounts of smokeless were needed than blackpowder use to take up.

 

U.