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Been playing around in the loading room today trying to come up with a simple plastic free load, decided to use a tested 3" load with 32 grams steel shot in a B&P 32 plastic wad,  I have put a over power card in then a 10 mm fibre wad then a card wrap cut from some packaging, 32 grams # 3 steel shot , over shot card,all fits great , will try to get them over the chrono tomorrow to see if there is a big difference in speed,will also have to check the card wrap for rub through,might need to go thicker, what do you all think?   Jim.IMG_0671.JPG.9862050e1ab1ca190b3f8b20316189fa.JPGIMG_0670.JPG.ab3567ae13277c77fff82d7140b188cb.JPGIMG_0669.JPG.b91866cd6361d87d4b81597669b18d1b.JPG

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Yes rub through is the thing I am looking for, I may have to use a thicker wrap and reduce the payload slightly, if it works it will be a nice and easy way to load plastic free as long as over powder cards and fibre wads are readily available, the other thing I thought of using was and inverted 10 or 8g over shot cardcup over the powder as in big bore loading to help with gas blow by ,  Jim.

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Fired a few today, although they still felt punchy, chrono reading were low as smokersmith thought they would be,don't know if it was because the card wraps I used were turning to confetti on firing and may be giving a false reading, so now looking for a tougher card to try again, here's the patterns through a 1/4 choke,  Jim.IMG_0505.JPG.31fae10cc5b6aac12a1e372ffee01349.JPGIMG_0504.JPG.6419ba6fc3965fcf0d396ebec8dcedc1.JPG

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Up date today, fund some thicker card to try, also added a inverted 8g card over powder which now produced around 1250 fps, but I used the thick card as a wrap which was overlapped and with the extra pressure on the overlap it cases the case to split so going to have to make some kind of wrap that meets end to end, the card I used still disintegrated on firing but I did find the outer layer which had not been holed, now going to test the paper cup wads from C&G to see how they stand up,  Jim.IMG_0508.JPG.f856dc5cce102ac1d9b512b9f82a8969.JPG

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1 hour ago, Smokersmith said:

Nice .. how did you form the cup?

I push an 8g card into a 16g brass case trimming tube,

 

16 minutes ago, Gas seal said:

Hi I have loaded the clay and game card shot cups in 12 gauge and 10 gauge with steel 3.8 mm for my son. The wads were good but may limit the choke used , l will ask him . I have used Mylar wraps with steel loads and find them a few yards away 

Trying to be plastic free on wraps,IMG_0673.JPG.6ab8b333011d85ae915d6fe22e78eaff.JPG

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37 minutes ago, figgy said:

You could soak your cardboard wraps in water soluble glue to give more strength.

You could make paper mulch and press your own cups in a mould.

Yes might give that a try,would maybe get away with a thinner wrap,

 

22 minutes ago, derbyduck said:

Jim do you wax the cards ? I do for the bigger stuff , 

Not so far,

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