Power Piston Wads

[Fiftyfour]

Today I picked up a bag of 16 guage Remington Power Piston Wads to give them try in my Fowler.
Does anyone here use these? Any lessons learned?

[Hungry Horse]

Nope, just another waste of money, and space in the shooting bag.

  Hungry Horse

[smylee grouch]

I don't know how you would use them and not get plastic in your bore.

[varsity07840]

I guess they’d work for the first shot out of a clean bore, but running one down on hard dry fouling is proably not a good idea.

[rich pierce]

I used them back in the 1980’s before I knew better and they worked fine shooting squirrels.

[Daryl]

If you are going to use plastic, you should put one or two 1/8" cards down between the powder and the plastic wad. Black powder flame will melt the plastic base and sides and then coat your bore with plastic along with the fouling.
Use of plastic in ML's is not generally recommended by people who have tried them in BP loads.

[stubshaft]

I've found plastic wads hard to seat in a fouled bore and not too helpful in tightening patterns.

[wmrike]

Been there, done that.  Plastic in a blackpowder gun typically ends up being a freaking mess in so many ways.  BP is hot and leaves shreds of melted plastic everywhere.  Stick with the old tried and true cardboard and fiber wads.

[P.W.Berkuta]

Also used them but filled the base opening with Crisco or Vaseline - worked - no plastic deposits - just messy .

[JBJ]

Ditto on the issues with BP and plastic wads. What a mess! And it took a bit to get things cleaned up!
J.B.

[Scota4570]

Also used them but filled the base opening with Crisco or Vaseline - worked - no plastic deposits - just messy .

Yep, I used modern wads in 12 ga BP shotshells.   I filled the cushion with Crisco.  The fouling was wet and stayed that way all day.  Clean up was a snap.   

[JPK]

I started using plastic wads in around 1978 and settled on power pistons in my 12 gauge. Works great for hunting or trap shooting. Easy to load past the slight choke of my Navy Arms double and cleans with little effort. There are long pieces of very thin plastic that comes out during clean up but no tendancy stay in the bore. Still have and use the same shot gun now with complete satisfaction.