Importence of the wad stack

[Kurt]

Gas cuts are death to accuracy. No matter how severe it is.
I spent several days a couple years ago testing the wad stack and alloy hardness to see what effect it has protecting the bullets from gas cuts and I found that it makes no difference if they get shot out of tight chambers or the standard, GG or PP or shape.
Hard bullets like 1/16 tin/lead or the bullets with antimony are more prone to get cuts if the wrong wad materials or to thin especially shooting hard PP bullets patched at bore diameter or a thousand under bore. The gas will cut through the patch if you don't have a proper wad stack.
The two bullets on top I wanted to shoot with out using a lube wad in a .45-70 case. When I was working up loads I was getting occasionally a couple flyers out of ten shots fired and a bunch of lead when I cleaned up. The wad stack was one card and one plastic wad under a bullet patched to bore and the bullet was 1/16 T/L.
When you look at that gas cut you can understand why it misses a 5 foot target at 800 yards. It will not only dig dirt but it will also go north, East or West. it just depends on what side the gas cut is on.

Kurt