Originally Posted by
gloob
I've researched this a bit. LDPE milk jug wads work. A cream of wheat filler works with a cardboard wad behind it. Both LDPE and COW will flow a bit under heat and compression to seal gaps. If plain cardboard wads do anything useful, you could be the first to find out and post about it. In all me research, I never found a case of this.
Maybe if you soaked them in bullet lube. Then it might work similar to how wax checks work, by lubing the bullet. Just make sure they stay tight to the base of the bullet. There's a thing called chamber ringing, and I don't know if it's a myth.
edit: racepress, I have melted a layer of lube over parchment paper and let it dry, then punch them out with a sharpened case mouth. Then pressed them to the back of a bullet that wouldn't pick up tumble lube. I never got around to trying it, though.