[quote=waterman] The base band bullets seated in the mouth of the case would have been rather fragile. /quote]

I also believed that and went so far as to publish it in "Rifle" magazine back in 1994.

I have seated .050" base-band bullets into a case fired in a Niedner chamber, not resized, and there is no way I could pull the bullet out.

When these new ideas hit the sporting press back before WWI the same criticism was published. Mann sent a cartridge with a BB bullet to the publisher of "Outers Book" and he and others could not get the bullet out.

MP Sadly Deceased as of 2/17/2014