How far can a wad go ?

can a wad go far enough to hit the bird from the 16 ? HC ? How often ?

 

The answer is: depends. Depends on the wind on a given day. Depends on the weight of the wad. Depends on how far shot cups open, which can sometimes depend the number of petals or slits. Back before plastic wads we mostly used mono wads (fiber board material). Stacked wads were before my time, but I knew shooters who used them. I can say that mono wads would travel in excess of 55 yards most days. 55 yards was the length of the mowed area at the club where I worked and the mono wads were knocking down leaves in the trees in the woods beyond that. Al was a marketing genius because we had several machinists and millwrights that could have easily fabricated something to bore fiberboard and make wads, but they were so inexpensive and available no one ever thought about it. When plastic shot cups came about it didn’t take long for mono wads and the stacked components to assemble wads disappeared. This is what my 70 year old memory recalls, and by the way barrel leading was a fact of life before shot cups.

 

According to the wad area on our trap field, I would say between 16 -40 yards. In one of Phil Kiner's videos, it showed the wad breaking the target from the 16.

 

So the wad could be confused with a piece of the target resulting in a dead bird conclusion.

 

Yes it is possible but it also depends on the color of the wad.

 

Figured. Thanks

 

I saw it happen one time. I think it was with an RXP wad, they were very stiff.

 

How far can a wad go? I know of one F wad that made it all the way to the White House!

 

That's why I use orange wads --Winchester makes a tracer shell which is nothing more than a weighted wad that goes past the bird.