Remington No 1 Creedmoor

[Kurt]

A while back I was looking for a Hepburn rifle used for the Creedmoor matches and we have a collectors show near Chicago yearly and the Auction house down Rock island ILL. and I have seen several Hepburns and roller target rifles used for the matches and one thing they had in common was a heal sight base. Some where stamped .44 S and I was told that was the .44 Special it is a bottle necked round shorter then the .44-2-5/8 BN Sharps.
The .44-100 was mostly used in the Hepburns and the Remington #3 long range creedmoor it used the 2-6/10 straight case, the .44-90 Rem straight also used a 2 6/10 case.
If the chamber was a .44-90 Special I don't know of any parent brass one could use to make this round. It is wider at the base then a .44-75 or the .44-90-2 5/8 Sharps case.
Zack is right about the value falling especially for the Remingtons. I have a friend that is a Remington collector and he has a large selection of the rollers and Hepburns and he told me that the value is dropping.