Thank you for your kind words indeed....but I would like to stress that the learning curve, compared to the knowledge about jacketed bullets, is short.
Elmer (and a few others that did not write a book) started the cast bullet thing big. They had very little to fall back on. Then Veral picked up the ball. However there where many company fellows feeding out what they were seeing....I have mentioned few like Ted Curtis and Bob Evans. It is a fact that many of the company boys findings (and it still happens) ended up under someone else's name......but we have all profitted from it. If, 10 or 15 years ago someone would have said the even the ammo factories would be selling hard cast designs....people would laugh. I found some very interesting things that the Brits did years ago that was forgotten when smokless powder and Jacketed bullets came to the fore front. That really applies to hard cast in the big bores. You can rest assured that there is still ongoing research done on a daily basis with cast bullet design. The reloader has the advantage over the ammo makers, who can not alter their products to meet every situation. The ammo maker must decide on certain designs that will have to go unchanged to the market place....and, friends, that's a real challenge indeed. There are lots of ideas out there, but will sell? I lean toward the reloaders because most of the successful designs do come from that sector.
Just some thoughts.....James