.44-40 - I am Confused.

[FPrice]

One of the local gunshops took in a pair of NIB firearms from a guy, both in beautiful condition. They were a Navy Arms rifle and a Ruger Vacquero, both in .44-40. I asked to see a box of .44-40 ammo and they had some PMC (Cowboy loads I think). But I was surprised to see that they appeared to be straight-wall cartridges. I thought that the .44-40 had a slight bottle-neck. You just don't see this cartridge around here very often.

I was tempted, but broke.

 

[KMaurer]

The bottleneck on the .44-40 cartridge is there, but it's extremely slight, making it almost invisible to the naked eye.

Ken

 

[FPrice]

Ken,

Thanks for the info. It was late in the day, I was tired and could have easily missed such a small dimension change. I had thought it was more pronounced.