Thread: Alternative to gas checks

Greetings All,
A few bits of trivia. The card wad in .303 cartridges was there primarily to hold the cordite in place when the case was formed to its final shape. Anyone who has broken down a British .303 cartridge will have wondered how the got the cordite in past the neck. The answer was that the neck wasn't there at the time. None of the other military cartridges I have broken down has the wad. Teflon tape on cast bullets was written up in Handloader in the early 1980's. I fiddled with it for a bit.
Regards Grandpamac.