Hey Don

[Kurt]

All is well.
I got home this afternoon and started on the new rifle to get it ready for Lodi. A week and halve is going to push me getting it ready for oil. I started on the wood and dug through my supply of dies and I have a CH-4D .45-70 sizing die that has a deep throat so it excepts the whole .45-90 case and it just sizes the neck enough that it will seat in the chamber and extracts. A patched bullet one thousand over bore just fits in the case mouth with a firm push. Just about got the chamber to tight. But to tight is better then to loose. I can always make it bigger not smaller

The rechambered .44-90bn.
The Stevens action just about wont allow the wider case rim clear the action to extract. It's very tight but workable. The shorter .44-77 case might be a better option for the CPA action.

Kurt