Thanks for the tip on Veral Smith's "Jacketed Performance With Cast Bullets", Daryl. I have had it for several years and can certainly second your opinion on its high worth. Heard its praise from Seyfried, no slouch with words, who said nary a word about Veral's charmingly loose application of English. It is a real tribute to the quality of Veral's keen observations and experimentation that despite the plainness of the book it is quite famous.
I've spent a good bit of time stuffing soft lead bullets down MLs, and wish I had more experience playing with alloyed bullets. As Veral explains, you can do all sorts of things with them once you understand obturation - and leading problems. Curious that more people, notably gun writers, don't use a long box filled with oiled hardwood sawdust to check out their alloyed bullets for proper obturation, etc.. Always thought I would build one of those if I got into alloyed bullets much.
Aloha, Ka'imiloa