Are the .44-77 BN and the .44-90 BN viable contenders in modern Creedmoor

[Don McDowell]

Jim gong matches are fun, and they can help a person figure out a few things, but the real acid test is the target rifle match.
As you said the time between shots etc, and a hit an inch inside the edge and a center hit count the same in a gong match, but that hit an inch on the paper can tank your score in a target rifle.
That being said I am extremely proud of winning 1st place at the Dean Scoggins 1000 yard match at Alliance a couple of years back. BTW did that with the rebarreled Shiloh shooting 84 OE 1 1/2 behind that .434470 cast 15-1 and wrapped in sc 55Y.

Also at the Phoenix match in 2019 shooting that 434470 bullet ,in the 90, I hit the spotting disc in the 10 ring at 1000 twice before we lost the wind and the wheels blew off of everything for the next 4 shots and we got the wind back and shot a pinwheel x.