An internet friend was good enough to pick up and mail some pulldown Hornady .444 Marlin brass for me to form for a new toy. Everything was fine until I started checking brass for trim length and about had a stroke when I realized that instead of the 2.25+ length that I should have been seeing, I was looking at the majority of them being 2.06 and shorter.
After doing a search for "short 444 brass", the answer is understandable, but still highly aggravating,,,,,,,
Hornady .444 brass and regular .444 ammunition is SAAMI spec. Length.
Leverevolution ammunition is loaded with shortened brass with the "Gummy tip" bullets so that COAL is unchanged so as to maintain load able number of rounds in tube magazines with their pointy bullets.
Im not especially enthused to be trying to attempt any kind of accuracy testing with brass that is supposed to be 2.25 max, but is actually 2.065 or less,,,,,,.
If you're buying pull down brass, ask.