 While Sierra had only been manufacturing rifle bullets up until then, they started making a .38 caliber 110-grain hollow cavity bullet for Super Vel with several other calibers to follow soon after.In the late 1980s, California was beginning to be unfriendly to the manufacturing business with new strict regulations and higher taxes.Robert Hayden, who had been the Manager of Operations/President of Sierra since 1969, had been born and raised in Missouri and often returned to the Lake of the Ozarks near Sedalia, Missouri on his vacations.