Thread: loading black powder shotshells what to use for wads

Originally Posted by Kiwi Sapper

Ah Haaaaaa. @Maca49 Your past post returns to haunt you. :>)

I was wandering around seeking info on 12 bore fibre wad loads and found you out. Please, please, pretty please with raspberry jam and icing sugar, can you remember how thick, ( height, not consistency) you made your "mixed" grease cookies?
I ask 'cos I made some for my Martini Henry and I suss that they were too thick as after 2 / 3 rounds, the cases would not seat fully enough to allow the lock to close. I was so urinated off at the time, that I walked away from the M.H. but I must get back to "walking the Lady out again," and I still have 3 kgs of beeswax so don't want to source sheets.

You know I made so much, I’ve never made it again, I have sold my BP shotguns, but still use this mixture for lubing lead projectiles. Was as below, beeswax, chef aid and lanolin. Beeswax was the base, chef aid to soften and lanolin, cause it expensive and great on your nipples, if breast feeding, I only used a small tube of it. The consistency is such, I can push it into the grooves of projectiles with my warm fingers. Hasn’t deteriorated over 5 yrs
I got the recipe of a yank site.