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Sidelock
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What's your favorite source for Dacron and/or Kapok?
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Sidelock
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Kid, I like Kapok-it won't melt. I get it from old style life vest from flea market. Mike
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I like cotton balls, available from any Rite-Aid or Wallyworld.
Best, Mal
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I get my dacron at the local fabric store.
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I get my dacron at the local fabric store. My wife supplies me also. In straight walled cases like 577, I use fiber wads and I have some of the Kynoch wads to try.
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I like Kapok-it won't melt. Neither does the dacron/ polyester or backer rod(foam) that I use.
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I have heard from several shooters that polyester melts in the barrel and is hard to clean out. I have used it for many years and have found no evidence of it coating the bore. Maybe I am missing it but I don't think so. My suspicion is they are packing it in tight if they really do have this trouble- that could equate to a secondary projectile, I suspect.
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I never had trouble with dacron melting,either,I never used it. It just made sense that it would. Mike
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Sidelock
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I've looked at wads from my shooting and the dacron shows no signs of melting and there is no melted plastic in the barrels. I suspect that this is an 'old wives tale' that has been passed down as gospel for too long.
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PM - do you just stack the fiber wads all the way up from the powder to the seated bullet?
Never tried this or heard of it. I've LOADS of fiber wads in a plethora of bore sizes. This definitely intrigues me.
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