Bill,....Wow,....again,...very nice work! Those Rogers & Spencer conversions look great,.......they're no doubt pretty accurate. I really like your antique finish on them. You relined the barrels to .429, right? ...Or did they start life out as .44 Colt? I don't know much about the Rogers & Spencers, ...'cept that they're used alot in competition shooting.
Thanks for the specs on your .44 Colt cylinder.
I slugged the barrel in my new Howell conversion , it's .429( been relined). Yes, it was a used purchase (GunBroker).
It's one of Howell's earlier ones,...the serial # is 064. Dennis Adler, in his cartridge conversion book (2002 edition) said that Howell at that time had built over 300 Colt copies, but only about a dozen Remingtons. This must've been one of those dozen. As far as the Nickle Plate finish,......it's just too shiny for my likes,...I maybe could live with it if it was dulled down, ...but can it be dulled now? Bead blasted? I wonder. I'm at least going to de-plate the trigger guard (brass), and replace the grips. I'm looking forward to loading some .44-40 BP loads. I've heard the .44-40 shoots a flatter trajectory than .45LC.