BPTR Rifle Suggestions

[Kurt]

Ed I doubt you will see any .44 at Byers unless Don brings his.
I had Shiloh build this Mt Rough Rider but I had to send them my Barrel because I wanted a 17 twist, all they offer is the 19. There is nothing wrong with a 19 but I wanted to use bullets the the 19 wont shoot well so I sent them a 1.3"X36" Krieger barrel blank with my chamber reamer and it ended up being a 35" by the time they got it fitted to the receiver and I wanted it in the white to help reflect the sun heat.
I set up these targets in my yard when I got it home and shot some ladder loads after I shot some cases I sized using a sizing die I made using a matching sizing die reamer from a die blank from PTG. It will just shoot a PP bullet, a GG will not chamber.
I shot 100 rounds at 200 yards on this target with out fouling control except a blow down the chamber a few times using a bullet I use for hunting in the .44-77 to blow out the cases to fit the chamber. The 8 ring is just 6" in diameter. This is why I say the .44's have a great potential for accuracy.
I don't understand why the .44's lost favor over the .45's. Maybe it's like the .308 loosing favor to the .223 because of Military supply of cases