Wasp/Hornet's Nest?

[Mogorilla]

Anyone use this in shotgun?  I have some horne't nest and have read about it being used.  Could it be cut and used as pistol wads?

[Books OToole]

I have always heard that wasp nests make great shotgun wads, but I have never tried it.

Books

[Ol Gabe]

With my tongue firmly implanted in my cheek...
Books, I "...double dog dare ya.." to climb up a tree and get a wasp nest and then make wads, shoot them at an official NCOWS event and then report back on how well they worked. The nest must be kept in your home for one full year as the test will otherwise be moot.
Please include pictures from the emergency room of your nurses applying specific ointments, bandages, slings, etc., as that will be the definitive answer to this question.
Best regards and don't shake the nest before stripping off the outer layers!
'Ol Gabe

[St. George]

Doesn't this fall into the category of:

'Hold my beer and watch this?'

Vaya,

Scouts Out!

[Rowdy Fulcher]

Howdy
REMEMBER if your after a hornet's nest . You need to get them in the Winter . 

[Gus Walker]

   All joking aside i use Hornets nest in my Pennsylvania rifle to protect the patch when using over 50 grains Goex. While in the bore the nest material acts like asbestos and once out the barrel goes up in a flash, no smoldering remain in da grass.

[Mean Bob Mean]

I want a gun that launches Hornet's nests.

[Delmonico]

I've got a Hornet, still don't know why everyone don't have one.

[Mogorilla]

Well, to clarify, it is a part of a hornet's nest taken in the middle of winter.  I had made an off hand comment one day to my mother in law about using it for wadding in BP shotguns.  She rmembered and when she found one this winter on the farm, I got a chunk.  Now I just need to convince someone to buy me a BP shotgun.   
I do have a little smoothbore percussion pistol that more often than not have loaded with various sized shot as opposed to a patched ball.  maybe tI will use the nest in it until I get a shotgun.

Thanks!

[Pitspitr]

Doesn't this fall into the category of:

'Hold my beer and watch this?'

Vaya,

Scouts Out!

Sounds like it to me!

[Irish Dave]

Why not just ask the wasps nicely and maybe they'll make them to size for you?

[RattlesnakeJack]

Some years ago I brought a nest inside during the winter .... when it warmed up, the inhabitants began exiting!   

[Mogorilla]

As I recall Hornets abandon the nest and winter underground, some wasps do not.  This was definitely a hornet's nest, that and I cut it into squares rather than risk carting it home as a nest.

[RattlesnakeJack]

This was a small, "cute" nest .... and, as I recall, the critters who started crawling out of it were smallish and black (or at least very dark colored) such that at first I thought they were big flies - but were definitely "waspish' on close inspection - apparently some sort of small wasp you likely wouldn't recognize as such if it flew by on a summer day, or else immature wasps of a more common variety.   

In any even,that nest went back outside mighty quick!