Paper versus plastic
Plastic is in the news at the moment for all the wrong reasons and, understandably, it is not going to go away. Not for several hundred years, anyway... The shooting community has enough problems at the moment and the plastic problem is just another theoretical nail ready to be driven home in our coffin. So what can we shooters do about it and how can we clean up our act a bit? One answer is to address the use of plastic wads in the countryside and, perhaps, increase our use of paper-cased cartridges.
From Just Cartridges’ point of view, plastic-wad sales are ever on the decrease and fibre now accounts for 88% of our game sales. And, interestingly, Hull Cartridge Co has recently notified us that it is discontinuing plastic wads in all its game loads, with the exception of its SuperFast Pigeon cartridge. Plastic wads were discontinued by Hull Cartridge in its Imperial Game and High Pheasant brands some years ago and although it only did a few plastic wad alternatives in its
