Originally Posted By: salopian
Currently here in the UK Eley cartridges have been using a 'fibre' wad made from compressed paper exactly the same as you get in parcel packing, the grey cardboard like material.
I have examined a new wad that I obtained and indeed I was able to seperate each individual layer of paper.
So, could we use papier-mache?


I suspect that papier-mache wads might work out OK. It appears to me that the Swedish wads that Greener described were mad from something similar.

I didn't realize that Ely is using compressed paper wads. I wonder how well they might obturate.