I have a few loads I collected from manuals and powder companies for buckshot.
Some loads call for a gas seal and felt/fiber wads, and others call for plastic shot wads.
All I have are the wads, I currently do not have any gas seals and felts/fibers, so I have never tried these loads.
I have two loads that call for wads. One calls for a WAA12, and another calls for a WAA12F114. Using these wads, I have to take and push the pellets into place to make them set at a flat 3 pellets stack, because of the pedals of the wads. I cut the pedals off one of the wads, seated it in a empty hull at the same depth it would be with a normal powder charge and tested the pellets. They drop in place and stack without having to be pushed into place. I have not loaded or shot any like this.
I can see with the pedals, there is a layer between the pellets and the barrel, possibly protecting the pellets from the bore, and the bore from the pellets. Without the pedals, the pellets will just rub on the bore.
Now would either one of these make a hill of beans difference from one another? I suppose I could load some any try, but before I do, I was just curious if anyone has already done it?
I just wonder if there would be any noticeable difference in the patterns between pedals vs no pedals? These are just normal birdshot wads.