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Do y'all know of any good references to reloading shot shells in the traditional way with fiberwads and cards ?

I had such good luck on Pheasants with traditional Gamebores cartridges and they pattern so well in my old guns that I thought about rolling some of my own.

Fibre wads can be made from fibre board used in the building trade when concreteing.Wad lubrication can be hot beeswax or vegetable oil just put the wads in a wire mesh fryer pan, dip into hot oil for about 30 seconds and then let them drip dry cool.When loading, ram them to a pressure of 50lbs or 75-80 for black powder.I use a 1/10inch overpowder card, fibre wad, 1/16inch card, shot load and then a crimp closure or a RTO for my posh BP game rounds.I have used 3/8inch thick cardboard wads with out any adverse results (cheap to make) but my 'posh' BP shells use fibre plus a felt disc punched with a wad punch out of old felt hats (I find French berets the best, maybe you can use Canadians?)