Originally Posted by
Distant Thunder
Yellowhouse,
Some of my Jamison brass is as much as .020" short after 3 firings. My BACO brass is all very close to 2.250". If I had it to do over again I would spend the extra money spent on my Jamison brass on more BACO brass instead. If you're going to shoot .446" diameter or larger bullets you may have to turn the necks on the BACO.
BACO's would be a better for bore diameter (.438") ppb as they came from BACO. It seems the old rifles in .44-77 were chambered for bore diameter paper patch bullets, but many just complain that the bores are oversize and never realize what they have. Most factory loads for the .44-77 were paper patch bullets I believe.