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It's like guns from another planet.
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Nah, just guns from the past. Nobody that I know of makes heeled bullets anymore, except .22's. That's the way they all started out. With a heeled bullet the bullet is the same size as the outside diameter of the case with the heel part roll crimped inside the case. Just like a .22. Which in a .36 conversion would be just about right. So you need the hollow based bullet to fill out the difference between bullet size and bore size. Hollow based bullets got their start just before the Civil War in muzzleloading rifles. They were invented by Captain Claude-Etienne Minie of France. Hence the name Minie Ball.