weeds for wads. good idea.

[Dusty_Traveler]

Respect your self , your gun and the game you are hunting. Use proper cards and wads to ensure a tight killing pattern.

Mike, excluding volumes, do you have a recommendation for building the stack? Which order/how many cards would you use in a shot load?

 

[Britsmoothy]

Told ya......

 

[waksupi]

Back when I was young, about 50 years ago, I finished out the day using soybeans when I had run out of shot. It would still knock down a rabbit, squirrel, or pheasant out to around 15 yards.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

Mike, excluding volumes, do you have a recommendation for building the stack? Which order/how many cards would you use in a shot load?

Each gun I have owned liked something different. But jug choked guns will shoot about any combination of cards and wads

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

I should add, I had .005 jug in my skeet guns. Filled the center of the pattern perfectly.

 

[DixieTexian]

Respect your self , your gun and the game you are hunting. Use proper cards and wads to ensure a tight killing pattern.

What if I'm shooting pigs? They don't get no respect!

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

What if I'm shooting pigs? They don't get no respect!

Shooting pigs with shotguns?

 

[sportster73hp]

Since its grape picking season in my neighborhood might I suggest grape leaves? Come in all sizes.

 

[tenngun]

I asked myself if I felt disrespected when I used random fiber wading like tow or paper, I said no
I asked my gun if she felt disrespected when I used anything but commercial cards, she said no, she was just happy to be on the hunt
I asked the last squirrel I killed if he felt disrespected.
He didn’t answer, just laid there assuming room temperature .

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

I asked myself if I felt disrespected when I used random fiber wading like tow or paper, I said no
I asked my gun if she felt disrespected when I used anything but commercial cards, she said no, she was just happy to be on the hunt
I asked the last squirrel I killed if he felt disrespected.
He didn’t answer, just laid there assuming room temperature .

I'm probably more in tune with my Zen....

 

[Britsmoothy]

I'm probably more in tune with my Zen....

I can soon upset Zen

 

[tenngun]

Zen and the arcane art of Flints,shot and absurd out of date guns….ohmmm

 

[Banjoman]

I’ve shot a lot of squirrels with my .60 caliber Fusil de Chasse (yeah, I said that) using 65 grains of 2f an about 65 grains of #6 shot. My wads were always wasp nest, tree leaves or jute tow. I never lost a squirrel and never had one jump up and tell me he felt disrespected. But there’s a first time for everything I guess.

I once had a guy tell me that he would never put something like leaves or grass down the barrel of his very fine, custom made $3000 muzzleloader. I said “but you don’t have a problem igniting a charge of black powder in it”. He had nothing else to say.

 

[brushblind]

I use a wad of hornets nest dampened with moose milk (Ballistol & water) over the powder and another over the shot with great results.

 

[Cvkotvkse]

Shooting pigs with shotguns?

When I was in high school 50 yeqrs ago, I would estimate about 25% of our family's meat intake per year was from wild hogs... almost. all killed w/ shotguns using buckshot.
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