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Post by elkman1310 on Sept 15, 2019 18:52:39 GMT -5
Well I bought another 450 Bushmaster this time the 22 inch model with the go wild camo and bronze coating nice looking gun. The little carbine I had last year shot good but it was to small for me I like something a little bigger.
I sighted this in with Hornady's black box ammo same stuff I had from the other year it grouped well and to my surprise it was a lot faster out of a 22 inch barrel it went 2370 fps with low deviation. But I also had sticky extraction which surprised me . But the gun is new. I also loaded up some sized Hornady 250gr bullets and made them .4508 instead of .452 and I also loaded some Barnes 250gr bullets which came from a pack of Rem ultimate muzzleloader bullets they are really small at .4489 Both of these smaller diameter bullets lets you seat your bullets much further out in the case so you can easily get 46grs of H110 in the case I shot both bullets they extracted better out of the gun than did the factory stuff'
The 46gr load went 2510fps on average that's really moving the gun only weighs 7.3lbs with a 3x9 scope but the recoil was not bad the muzzle brake works pretty good on these Rugers.
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Post by elkman1310 on Sept 16, 2019 9:00:52 GMT -5
I looked at the chamber this morning with my bore scope even without using the bore scope you could see the back end of the chamber bevel looked rough. I took the barrel/action out of the stock and taped the barrel up and put it in my lathe using a long wooden dowel and 500 grit paper I polished the chamber it looks a lot better and the fired empty cases come right out so things should work much better.
Right now I am out of bullets I would like to stay with the Barnes because of there expansion plus how they hold together for angle shots.
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Post by jims on Sept 17, 2019 18:59:16 GMT -5
Should be better.
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Post by elkman1310 on Sept 18, 2019 6:24:04 GMT -5
After polishing the chamber I test fired some hot loads and they cam out slick as butter. Nice light weight gun with plenty of stopping power.
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Post by gd357 on Sept 19, 2019 2:43:13 GMT -5
Yeah, its still a light package even with the extra barrel length. Handles well, and should hit like a sledgehammer. LOL
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Post by elkman1310 on Sept 19, 2019 8:29:34 GMT -5
If I can load it up to 3,000 fps with 500gr solids I wont feel under gunned lol. Getting 2500fps with a 250gr is no problem that's as hard as I will push it. You could really improve it by shooting Pittman Aeromax bullets but I only want this for a light weight carry gun for woods hunting.
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Post by gd357 on Sept 20, 2019 13:32:24 GMT -5
Yeah, IF I get the time I'm gonna try some of the accumaxes in mine. 2500 with the 250gr will get you a fair amount of distance... LOL
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Post by elkman1310 on Sept 23, 2019 12:06:25 GMT -5
I don't have any 250's but I have some 275gr I might give them a try. I have my 45/70 setup with 410gr .458 diameter bullets from Arrowhead they shoot really well I have them humming at 2450fps which makes it a decent gun out pass 400 yards I have not shot it on paper that far it shot well at 300 yards. The 450 would almost duplicate that. I was surprised how much velocity I picked up with the factory rounds going to the 22 inch barrel. The 45Raptor would be really nice in a gun like this that's 1.800 case length. actually it's a 460 S&W without the rim.
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Post by gd357 on Sept 23, 2019 14:24:18 GMT -5
The Raptor is one heck of a round. I have a friend that has an AR10 45 Raptor. A bolt gun would yield some very impressive velocities with that one... LOL
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