Wads?

[Kurt]

One thing about the ODG's is they more or less learned how to load the cartridges before shooting the long range Creedmoor matches in about 10-12 years and we have been doing the same thing for the last 140 years trying to reinvent the invented .
They were no different than we are now always looking to improve our shooting ability through improving the way we load these black powder rounds.
The Gun writers are just like we have today. Some just repeat what they have read or heard others saying or what they found working up loads and shooting them.
When you look at the old Creedmoor targets shot back then and look at the shot placements compared to what is shot now days on paper at those ranges 800-1000 yards or the mid range targets; I myself think today's shooters are turning in finer groups or at least equal than shot by the top ODG shooters written about in the old books and magazines from back then.
The ODG rifle cranks are no different than we are now.

Kurt