making overshot cards made in china

I thought this could be a good thread to list the other parts/tools for making homemade fillers like OS cards, wad inserts of felt and thick cardboard. Here’s the ideas I’ve read or come up with:

Here’s a link to larger hollow punch, it has 9/16 (.56″) and 5/8 (.625). The 9/16 should work for 20ga OS while the 5/8 for 20ga nitrocards (used for 12ga load spacers).

But really, those CD covers ARE thin and frangible, you can hit it with a pen and it cracks. Same acrylic plastic.The 5/8″ plug cutter worked fine for me with the 20ga hulls, but still I felt like it might be making a wee ridge there after roll crimping. It chambers fine in my 725 Citori and my SX3 though, even cycling them through the mag on the sx3, so…

Place an overshot card on top of the shot charge just before crimping to improve overall crimp quality and seal in small shot and/or buffer. Excellent for use with Ballistic Products Roll Crimp tools.

I keep any thick solid card that comes my way and have a session on the pillar drill with a cutter I made for overshot cards. Maybe you could use thicker stuff for nitro cards in the same way, I don"t know. I thought fibre board would be too much trouble to cut accurately for a wad and wont the pellets bed into it when fired unless there is something in front aswell

My father would sit for ages at night glueing 1/8" cards to one side of a 3/8" Kleena wad. He would soon have a "boat-load" of these ready for loading. He"d put two, back to back, for his 30gram pigeon loads.(27 grains of Nobel 80!)

Later that year, New York State’s quarantine officer, William Jenkins, diverted to remote islands hundreds of impoverished East European, Jewish passengers coming from Europe and Asia in the steerage section of ships. The measure was designed to forestall the spread of an outbreak of cholera that had originated in Hamburg, Germany, then the largest port in the world — only it did not apply to first-class passengers. Dr. Jenkins was thought to have overshot, was roundly criticized and eventually lost his job.