Hello, I saw the post about the .40-60 Maynard, and thought this was as good a time as any to bring up something that has been on my mind for more years than I care to admit. Have you ever thought about how fortunate we are in being able to re-make old obsolete cases by using .30-40 or .303 brass? Has anyone thought why? Back in the late 19th century the bean counters were just as interested in saving $$ as we are today, perhaps more so seeing the many "panics"(depression) there were then with no financial controls in place. I believe when the army brass (NO pun intended!) went to frankford arsenal with an idea for a smallbore, they in turn probably asked Rem. or Win. for advice, looking at a .40-70 sharps straight they probably envisioned a shortened bottlenecked case, and viola! new case, useing same basic forming dies...somebody probably got a bonus that year. Just a thought.