Yes, it's amazing, isn't it, that we've managed to kill all manner of big game for so many years without "premium" bullets or brain-smashing magnums, turkeys and waterfowl without 3-1/2 inch shotgun shells? I often wonder how our forefathers survived.
How very true. Many years ago,about the only inexpensive standard cup and core were those from Sierra. I was living in San Francisco (Pre-Feinstein
)and working for a now long defuct gun shop. Sierra at that time were made in california and Speer and Hornady bullets beig from out of ste had to be special ordered at a cost os about a$1.00 to $1.50 more depending on caliber so I always just stck with the less expensive Sierras for whatever I was hunting and they worked just fine. I never lost a deer using them. I like the Speer Hot-cores but probably still buy Sierras from force of habit and because I have loads worked up with them that work. Like Murphy says, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Paul B.