Originally Posted by
Primitive Weapon
I have a Bushmaster .450. I went with it over the .50 Beowolf & .458 Socom because it's flatter shooting (at 2200fps) and ammo seems to be more available & Hornady makes it. I have stockpiled a little, approx 100rds. Since it only serves as my deer rifle, I don't need to hold onto alot of ammo at any given time.
Last season was my first season to hunt with it and I shot a buck and 2 doe's. All 3 dropped where they stood. One of the doe's was at 160yds....the other 2 were both about 75-80yds.
Here is a pic of the gun and my 100yd 3-shot group from the range this past weekend.
At 100yds I need to be 1.8" high to be dead on at 150.
In Indiana, they increased our legal cartridge size from 1.6" to 1.8" and the bushmaster casing is exactly 1.8".
hate to tell ya but with the same weight bullet the socom has a faster MV due to the fatter case having greater powder capacity, I run 300 gr .458 bullets at 2260 fps from my 20" tromix custom 458, the bushy uses a 284 win case cut to 1.8" and runs a .452" pistol bullet, the socom uses a 50 AE magnum case stretched to 1.7" and necked to .458.
RR