Felt wads with conicals?

[Alaskasmoker]

Should you use Felt wads with conicals? My encore really shoots the 410 grain great plains bullets accurately. I was shooting them just sitting on top of t7 pellets. But I recently read that a felt wad should be used. What do you guys think?

 

[Semisane]

Use wads under flat base conicals. The concave base of GP's is made for use without wads.

 

[PA RIDGE RUNNER]

Alaska I have tried felt wads under the flat based conicals and even a patched round ball and every time I had noticably better groups. Those wads are not expensive so grab a bag and try them but only on the flat based conicals or patched round balls.

 

[txhunter58]

I have often heard that too: use only under flat base bullets. However, I have also heard that they can improve groups under powerbelts, which seem to me to be more like concave base bullets when you include the base. What gives there?

 

[cayuga]

The rule of thumb was, use a wad on a flat based conical and fill the hollow with lube on the others. Although try it both ways and what ever works for you use it.

I have rifles that work both ways. My White, whether I use a wad, depends on the kind of powder I am shooting.