Brown bess on the way!

I think i'll probably try the smaller size first with different patch combinations and see how it goes.
I watched a vid on youtube the other day about the different over powder and over shot wads for use when shooting shot. Is there anything that I can use to make these myself?
I'm being a cheapskate on this one, but my wife is officially ticked off that I have bought a few bp guns in the last few months and I need to fly under the radar for awhile...
 
you can pretty much make your own wads and cards .
myself i punch my own out of horse hair padding for my 20 gage's , using a spent Co2 cylinder . cards are not very exspensive even from ToW. but you can punch those out to .
You could go the PC way and use Tow or wool for wadding as well as over the shot .
there are lots of different options to include making your own paper shot cups . for Round balls in some of my smoothbores , i even get better results by using a wad , ball and card vs. using a patch

but like rifles , each smoothbore often likes different things , so it takes some time to figure out exactly what your Bess will like
 
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