Using hollow base bullets in Plains Rifles

[LeadShark]

Hi there!

Since Pedersoli offers hollow base bullets for the Tryon, I just wanted to ask how historical the use of this type of ammunition actually is. Did it exist? Did it not happen at all? Did people only load patch and ball into their half stock plains rifles?

 

[tenngun]

When?
Mountain med didn’t use them. Conicals were not invented in what would be popular form till the end of the MM period.
However, conicals were used in ML hunting rifles long after breech loaders came in style. Ned Roberts told a great story of him and his Grandfather hunting bear. His grandfather used a .45 double rifle while Ned had a .44-40. Ned was not real successful.
The next year he went with a double like Granddads. Long range hunting rifles were designed for conicals by the 1850s and be popular past 1900

 

[LeadShark]

I was thinking about like 10 years before the ACW/during the ACW. Basically at the time hollow base bullets became popular for military use. I thought that at the same time, the civilian world would also start using them. And while the MM period ended before that, surely people still used these types of rifles for sport/hunting, right?

 

[tenngun]

Can’t prove it but would doubt it.
it doesn’t work well with deep rifeling, added to the fact that bores were often random.
A .50 caliber can hour a .480,.485,.490and .495 very well, but a conicals had to be pretty specific to the caliber to shoot.

 

[nkbj]

To be MM HC...
Double ball loads for more weigh of shot?