.44-77 PP bullets.

[Distant Thunder]

Gavin,

Good question. That's kind of what I'm wondering. In my .45-70, .45-90 and .40-65 I have always seated pretty shallow. Pictures I have seen of original .44-77 and .44-90 cartridges with the bullets pulled and not pulled seem to show that the bullets were seat fairly deep in the case, .200-.500".

Both Don and Kurt said they seat theirs .250" plus or minus depending. In my .45-70 and .40-65 seating shallow gives more much wanted powder capacity. In my .45-90 I would have liked a little less powder capacity, but seated shallow for accuracy reasons and because I was told that was the way to do it. It worked so I never tried anything else.

I do seat my PPB fairly deep in my .50-70 and it shoots well like that.