My pleasure, Mark. It's always fun chatting it up with a knowledgeable fellow enthusiast. Not many bullet casters around, especially ones that wade into the deep end of the pool - the black powder cartridge rifle game.
I well remember the firestorm Mr. Theodore stirred up with his early experiments with that .38-70. You asked me if I was familiar with his efforts some time back in another thread. I didn't realize you were one of the guys playing around with that number as well. I've tried to make bottle necked black powder rounds shoot well, so I have some inkling as to what you guys were going through. My hat's off to you.
While I do have to say I came down firmly on the more "traditional" side of the controversy regarding the use of some of the ideas you guys came up with being employed in competition, I very much respected the advancements in BPCR technology. I have to think that if black powder in cartridges had enjoyed a bit longer run in the mainstream, that is where we would have eventually wound up. Oh well, we'll never know. All I know is that "smokeless powder is a passing fad".
