Wads?

[Don McDowell]

I really wish we could get ahold of some of Hyde's, Hepburns etal bullets.
I'm almost thinking they were well over bore, and we now know they were hard.
So in some respects it would be more like shooting a grease groove, but not quite.
I know what a thin felt wad and the rubber gasket material does for my 44's, but when that roughrider comes back I do plan on loading some hardball alloy without wads,,, just to see what happens..
As to the odg's groups being larger, well maybe, but when you factor in 10 lb rifles, no artificial rests, no set triggers, and no spotters/coaches.. Things start to even up with what we have today.
I'ld sure like to see a match today run under those rules.