50/70 bullets

[Don McDowell]

Bruce there's no doubt that some Creedmoor shooters did reload, but they most likely did so starting with factory fresh brass.
I might be wrong , but apparently Tollefson ordered the ammunition for his guns from the Sharps factory.
Billy Dixon at Adobe Walls bought the only available rifle , a round barreled 44 and a CASE of ammunition, the afternoon before that famed fight broke out.
Roberts alludes to the sheer cost of shooting Creedmoor in his Schuetzen rifle book, when he said that Schuetzen became popular as a person only needed 4 cases to be able to compete, vs the huge amount of ammunition needed in the Creedmoor events.
As for powders, there were many variations available. The government powder was much like regular goex today, the rifle powders something along the line of Swiss and Olde Eynsford, and then there were the shotgun powders that were said to be unsuitable for use in cartridge rifles.
Hazard powder co alone offered, Kentucky Rifle, in 5 sizes, Duck shooting in 6 sizes, Trap in 4 sizes, and Electric in 6 sizes, plus another go round of mining and blasting powders...