There were several generations of Remington conversions, with and without loading gates, different backplates, and with and without ejector rods. Remington seemed rather fond of rimfire cartridges, perhaps because it is the easiest conversion for the hammer nose. The closest Remington cylinder to the R&D conversion had rimfire hammer nose slots in the backplate where R&D has the firing pins.
Most of the early 44 Cartridges, both rimfire and centralfire, used 45 caliber heeled bullets, as the conversion bores were 45 caliber. The later internal 429 bullets came much later after the factories reduced the bores to 44, and the bullets were then hollowbased so the older revolvers could use them.
44 Colt, 38 Colt, 44 Henry and 44 American were all heel type bullets of the same diameter as the cartridge case, as some were used in a cut-off cylinder originally bored for cap & ball. It was the 44 Russian inside-the-case bullet that started the 429 bore for 44s, and begat the 44 Special and 44 Magnum.