Development of PP loads for the .44-77.

[Distant Thunder]

Arnie,

I took you serious about the seating depth comment but I took no offense at all.

That is interesting that to DDEPP bullet shot well seated deep. That gets me thinking how that all worked as the bullet upset. You do run those pretty hard and they mat not have upset too much and caused any problems.

I started seeing the deeper seating in the .44-77 as having some advantages and uses. I'm thinking offhand loads at 200.

I probably need a cartridge that uses 56 grains of powder just for fun shooting if nothing else. There were a lot of small cartridges back in the day and they very popular. I'd have to really study that idea to see what trips my trigger.

There is so much I want to try/test in the .44-77 I don't see how it doesn't keep me busy and happy for a good while. I do hope it can be competitive at long range and it should be. It also has excellent hunting potential. Is an excellent silhouette cartridge and mid-range too.

It was those pictures of the .44-77 cartridge with a paper patch bullet sticking out that impressed me years ago when reading Elmer Keith's tales of shooting an original Sharps that probably planted the early ideas in my head.

So before I hang up my Sharps for the last time I just had to give this cartridge a run and see how it does.