I opened a Cabela's book and what did I see?
Boat-tailed Ballistic-Tipped muzzleloader bullets...
What next?
There was a sabot launched conicals with a hallow point through the entire length of the projectile...
Back in my day, we only had a few choices.
We didn't have those fancy smancy, new fangled bullets, we used round balls and liked it.
Wait a minute, these are "still in my day"...
Sabots to the left of me, Lead free bullets to the right...
Star points, Plastic tipped, Hydra points, Buffalo bullets and finally Minie & Maxi-balls...
Did our fore-fathers have this many choices?
Leave us go back a few years, to the days of the composite bullets of the Lewis rifle. Around the mid 1840's to early 1850's the conicals were a composite two-part bullet consisting of a hard lead base and a soft nose section that were cast seperately and then assembled before firing.
Used in long range target muzzleloaders like the Lewis and Billinghurst rifles (some weighing 50 pounds or more), these "MODERN" paper-patched bullets were some of the most accurate projectiles ever cast.
So, bullet design is nothing new...
I guess I'm stuck in a round ball world, and that's OK with me.
Boat-tailed Ballistic-Tipped muzzleloader bullets...
What next?
There was a sabot launched conicals with a hallow point through the entire length of the projectile...
Back in my day, we only had a few choices.
We didn't have those fancy smancy, new fangled bullets, we used round balls and liked it.
Wait a minute, these are "still in my day"...
Sabots to the left of me, Lead free bullets to the right...
Star points, Plastic tipped, Hydra points, Buffalo bullets and finally Minie & Maxi-balls...
Did our fore-fathers have this many choices?
Leave us go back a few years, to the days of the composite bullets of the Lewis rifle. Around the mid 1840's to early 1850's the conicals were a composite two-part bullet consisting of a hard lead base and a soft nose section that were cast seperately and then assembled before firing.
Used in long range target muzzleloaders like the Lewis and Billinghurst rifles (some weighing 50 pounds or more), these "MODERN" paper-patched bullets were some of the most accurate projectiles ever cast.
So, bullet design is nothing new...
I guess I'm stuck in a round ball world, and that's OK with me.
