Ohiochaplain wrote:
> Also, does anyone know a ratio of dish-based to flat-based bullets.
It's difficult to come up with a precisely-accurate ratio. All I can do is give you a rough estimation, based on the quantities I've seen on the civil war bullets market (which includes my participation as a longtime buyer of "bulk" quantities of dug bullets).
I would estimate the ratio to be at least ten flat-base to one dish-base -- and probably significantly higher than 10-to-1 ...perhaps 20-to-1.
I should mention that the estimate is "clouded" by the fact that most dug Burnside "slugs" are found as part of a corroded-to-pieces cartridge -- with the slug's base being too corroded for certainty about whether it is a flat-base or a dish-base slug. So, my estimate is based on the number of "distinguishable" specimens I've seen of the two types of base.
Regards,
Pete