44 2.4 st

[Don McDowell]

The biggest thing you'll have to watch with that I'm thinking is don't get the bullet to long for the twist. These sub walmart cartridge sizes are a bit of a different world, and a person have to readjust your thinking to bullet weight.

[J.B.]

So Don...are we going to see the 2.4 in action at the Q or are you running with something else ? Was the original based on the 45 x 2.4 case or is that a 'corruption' to utilise available brass ? Just curious.

Gavin.

[Don McDowell]

JB I am planning on running this one for midrange and silouette. Won't make the Q this year. As near as I know this is pretty close to the original Remington Sharps also made a few rifles in this according to Sellers book

[J.B.]

Sorry to hear you wont be there Don but best of luck on your other ventures. I'd imagine you'll have no problem knocking rams down at 500 mtrs with that little number !

rgds.. Gavin.

[Gunlaker]

Don a .44 will have to wait a bit :-). First I have to get my .40-85 Ballard shooting. I have to admit that most of my rifles shoot common bpcr cartridges though. The only other slighly uncommon thing I have I an old 1886 in .38-56 which is a neat little cartridge.

Chris.

[Don McDowell]

It sore likes the brooks postel.
Plan is to shoot the regional 22bpcr match. Then hit the hay fields and shoot the Nationals at Raton on the 4th of July weekend.

[JReed]

Don what dies are you using for this? Also I noticed you list the one bullet as 1.3 lenght I imagine that weighs 495 or so gr? All your talk of 44's is making take a hard look at them.

[Don McDowell]

I'm using Redding dies. Apparently C Sharps had some made by Redding , a set turns up fairly regular on Ebay.
The bullets I'm shooting in this weigh right at 480. Could probably push a 500 something, but as well as these are shooting I'm not seeing the benefit of pushing the length/weight just yet anyway.

[Don McDowell]

Just to feed the fever a little bit... Last time I checked C Sharps available pages, they had a Sharps and a Hiwall just waiting for someone to call em and say chamber that for the 44 -90 st and send it to me... And there were those on gunbroker the other day...

[JReed]

480 is heavy enough. I was trying to do the math in my head using 45 pills as a base. The more I read about the .44's the more they sound right up my alley. With less recoil for the same work of the .45's. I have already had my shooting shoulder repaired so recoil is not a big friend of mine.

Trust me if it was up to me I would call them up and do just that but the CFO (a.k.a. the loving wife) has made the decree of no new guns till after I retire, get moved, and settle into a new job. So for the next year or so I am in research mode.