Remington No 1 Creedmoor

[bruce moulds]

sir bruce de moulds chiming in.
I have no experience with 44s or bottleneck cartridges.
I find the 40/90 bn most attractive to look at and the 44/77 even more so.
my first bpcr which I still own was a 45/2.4" on a flatspring highwall.
with no knowledge at all of this discipline, that seemed a good compromise for sil and long range.
it proved to be a very accurate rifle, but would have been more suited as a 15 lb rifle rather than the sil wt that it is, and used purely for long range.
having graduated to pp bullets, it would also be better with a tight pp chamber and a 4 degree transition.
it just shoots lights out with a 0.446 bullet patched to 0.451 and breech seated, so the 45 degree transition is not really a problem.
however the crunch is that many years shooting hard kicking light rifles has left me with an inherent flich that I need to constantly fight to subdue.
I have found that a fast twist 40 using 83 to 85 gns of powder and a long slippery bullet comes close to matching the 45 for long range and I can shoot it better for prolonged periods.
call it an old man's whim.
however there is always the call to try the impossible, and that is shoot a bn cartridge well. some of us just need a challenge because we are nutcases.
I just wondered if the 44/77 might have long range capability, as you do being an old man dreaming.
in the real world, the 44/2.6 or 2.5 straight is the way to go with pp bullets seated 1/10" in the case or breech seated.
if you can afford lots of rifles to try things might be different.
it would also require a fastish twist to deliver a min wt bullet of 520 gns.
back to plan A and pursue a 40/85 ballard with a 12" twist weighing 15 lb and a 32" barrel so the sight radius will allow a point to equal an actual moa.
keep safe,
bruce.