Ive been looking into the Federal Flight Control wads a bit. Some people are cutting other wads to have the little wings that fold back from the rear of the cup instead of the front, I havent heard many good results with that except one video of a guy cutting 16ga CDS wads and loading them with 4buck and he nailed it, his replica of flight control wads even punched clean holes through the paper at 35 or 40 yards with great patterns.
I see that Federals wads have a large cut cup area that the powder fits inside then blows the flaps forward to simulate something like a badminton petcock and create drag from the rear.
The best way I was thinking about reproducing this would be to sand the bottom of two wads nice and flat at the bottom and glue them together so you have a shotcup facing up and down, cut the top and bottom cup just like Federal. Is that safe experimenting or too "out-there"?
Do mylar wraps inside a wad help at all with controlling patterns?
