AJ:
Firstly, thanks for submitting your cartridge for examination and consideration by NCOWS. It is appreciated.
Secondly, thank you very much for contributing to this thread in a positive, intelligent and gentlemanly manner.
Now to your concerns:
OK dave. I see where yer coming from on almost all of it.
When we get to the bottom, we read "it isn't about headstamps" then further, that it IS about headstamps, and NO, being essentially the same as .45 Webley is not grounds to allow it without debate because it is a modern cartridge (never mind that the INTERNAL VOLUME and case head are exactly the same, and the length is very close.
I'm sorry, but I'm straining to stay within good decorum on this. If a pard uses MODERN .44 Russian cases loaded with BP (or .45 Colt for that matter) he CAN'T get enough BP in the case to be authentic, but if I say "We got here a very authentic, 19th century cartridge, the .45 Webley, recreated with a slightly longer case that makes up for the fact that solid head cases hold less powder than balloon head brass of the same length, and if loaded with the correct bullet, will produce the same results they had back in the day" Ya trip me with the headstamp.
But if run .44 mag or .44 spl cases cut more or less to .44 Russian, I'm good to go, even if the solid case head ends up holding maybe 4 or 5 grains less BP than it ought to?
Somehow I miss the logic, if there is any. What we are left with is prejudicial emotion backed by circular reasoning.
I can't respond to that, and won't even try, except to say I hope Dick shows you fellas what this cartridge is all about when properly loaded, I hope you chrony it, and then I hope you compare the results to those often referred to as published by Captain George Baylor. Google his "range camp"
The darned cartridge, loaded with a decent bullet and decent powder CAN outrun commonly used .45 Colt loads using cheap, overly processed (GOEX COWBOY) or APP.
It's no gamer load IF YOU DON'T WANT IT TO BE.
Read my "user data" page on the website and compare it to ACTUAL data on Baylor's pages (not some hokum about .45 Colt and BP running 950 fps with a 255).
I'm done, because, (and I know I'm pushing the line with this) it's NOT raining here, somebody's peeing down my leg.