Bullet book poll.

Emike (sorry did not get your name)

In my CD on civil war bullets I referenced to the MM book and also put a cross reference with my numbers, McKee & Mason, Thomas & Thomas books.

I do agree with the MM book as the bullet collectors bible but it has a lot of mis information on name callout or identification. All of the reference books along with my CD do not cover every bullet found nor do they agree on names of bullets but till one of the original makers/users come back we can only name them by the name given when found or call them unknown.

Thank you & enjoyed your imput on the book. :up

Tom Stelma

[spector551]

Yes, Tom's Bullet CD has been very helpful to me.

I do, however, really like Emike's (sorry, i didnt get your name either) idea about us discussing bullets like that. I would give the boards somr new life and also would be a fun discussion. I know that I would learn plenty and I bet plenty others would too.

[emike123]

Tom,

It sounds as though your CD already does what I was suggesting -- takes off from the M&M taxonomy and carries the field further. That simply shows what I have long known, that most of my good ideas, someone else has already acted on. Please eMail me the details of how to order the CD from you.

Mike

[emike123]

I finally got Tom's bullet CD today in my stocking and it is extremely useful. The cross reference to the M&M #s and calling out of the duplicate listings in M&M was particularly helpful (pp268-80). I have already updated my haves list so I don't unknowingly get any more doubles than I already have.

Thanks for this terrific contribution. I am looking forward to reading it more thoroughly over the coming days.

- Mike