Zack.
The shooters back 130 years ago are doing the same thing shooters have been doing now days going back 30 years or so developing what works best in the BP matches since the interest started again. When you get right down to it, looking at the shot placement on the targets back in the 1870's and what you have seen in the last few years I think the shooters now days are doing better then they did back then.
No I don't go to matches shooting the calibers I shoot to look cool, I shoot what works to win the match. I don't care if it is in the .22 caliber through the .50-90-2.5. I reach for the rifle to match the conditions of the match.
I shoot different .44 calibers and I have done OK using them at long range shooting. I don't have a .44-2.4 straight but I do shoot the .44-2.5 Ballard and the .44-2.6 straight, not in a Remington but in the 74 Sharps and .44-1/2 Stevens and they have placed me pretty high at the matches out to 1000 yards. But like I mentioned, I would use the .44-77 because it works.
But when you get right down to it, my .44-90/2-5/8 Bn does not take the back seat to any I mentioned.
Kurt
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