I don't think it is the hard card wads, but the softer fiber wads, lubed or dry, they are good candidates for a slow smolder. When the corn is dry and unharvested, and I'm hunting prairie or dry cattails next to it and it super dry, I just can't take that chance and there is a very good alternative that is a lot safer in that regard, so it would be pretty irresponsible on my part to take the chance.

I don't know what it takes to get a good seal, but like I mentioned above, a thick Circle Fly fiber wad and a nitro powder wad between powder and shot cup won't stop the plastic from melting, though it seems that it should.

Interestingly, I never see any sign of melting when I seat a low density polyethylene wad directly over 80+ grs of blackpowder. Those wads can be recovered looking almost as new, so I can't really understand why the shotcups have such problems. I've wondered if steel shot wad/cups might be better somehow, but I haven't bothered to figure that one out.

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