50/70 bullets

[bobw]

We're gonna have to agree to disagree on the reloading part. As I believe it played a major part with the buffalo hunters( pro ones anyway) too many bill of ladings and sales receipts still exist outlining reloading components sold with a few hundred factory loads to discount the importance of it. Sharps's shell reducer only tighten the neck for bullet tension and a whole lot of bullet molds were sold by them to service the hunters needs. No mention anywhere from hunter reports of hulls splitting just an occ need to tighten necks. Can't remember Elmer Keith saying that the old hulls were bad either and that was what he was using. Those Creedmoor shooters were testing different alloys all the time and bet they weren't factory loads either. With the original style chamber much if any hull work was eliminated with ppb loads now greaser loads and chambers cut for the use of them is a different story. Those guys prolly shot factory greasers anyway because they sure weren't to worried about performance from them. bobw