Your essay full of name dropping and classic schoolboy excuses for misbehaving reveal much more about yourself than you may have intended.
So, being around guns all of your life qualifies you as an expert? Not any more than changing bed pans over several decades qualifies you as a medical doctor.
You claim to be well versed in proper cartridge nomenclature but refuse to conform to industry protocol. More indication of a defiant and immature mind set. Your oft repeated nonsense concerning the .45 S&W Schofield has been printed often enough by ill informed gun writers that reasonable people now may believe that fairy tale. Advanced cartridge collectors and researchers with far better credentials that yours have been unable to document any usage of the “Long” moniker prior to World War II, many decades after that shorter cartridge was put to bed.
A far more plausible explanation is that returning WWII vets coined that terminology to distinguish between the G.I. Caliber 45 Ball Model 1911 of which they were recently familiar and the older .45 Colt cartridge.
Yes, several non-SAAMI and off-shore ammunition assemblers seem as unaware as yourself about proper cartridge designations. Your mother taught you that it took how many wrongs to create a right?
It's the headstamp stupid! Please grow up!
I don’t have to justify myself to you. I don’t want or need your approval. Regardless of the history of the cartridge or my biography, I made an innocent comment on another subject. You took the opportunity to seek me out for an uncalled for, angry, condescending lecture. THAT says more than I need to know about you. I shouldn’t have answered you in the first place. It is obvious you are an unbalanced person. Think what you want of me, just keep your crazy to yourself and leave me alone.