450 Bushmaster from Hornady

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Just wondering what everyones thoughts are if any. I've been trying to find some ballistics info on this new cartridge but nothing yet. gonna also contact bushmaster this weekend to see when i might expect to start seeing the 450 uppers. I love the idea of this new cartridge myself provided it sticks around. Make a nice big game buster in reasonable ranges.
 
Nobody seems to want to talk about, but as near as I can tell it is a blown out straightwalled 223 case. There is no published data that I have found, and Hornady won't say when they are releasing ammo for it.
 
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the cartridge fires a .452 dia bullet, my guess its the sst for the 50 cal sabot. I have a 458 socom it fires a 300 gr .458 dia bullet at 2100-2200 fps from a 20" AR and its awesome on deer and black bear.
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Greetings all, Unsure how many of these are out there. At Shot Show 2005 Izzy(Bushmaster)gave me a proto-type dummy round. Here goes; Overall loaded w/fmj 230 ball-2.255 empty case- 1.860 .500 @ the widest part of the case near the base. It looks like you took a 45/70( it is a bit shorter) and put a small rimless base on it to fit the M16 bolt. This will hold some serious powder. S/F
 
Just aneother version of the 458's out there. Also, I would not worry about the uppers. Ammo from Hornady will be your concern. They don't know when it will be produced.
 
I shotthem at SHOT show and really liked them. I also spoke witht he engineer that built it and he told me it would be a viable big game round. I will be testing it on mule deer and elk this coming year so we'll see!

C
 
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I shotthem at SHOT show and really liked them. I also spoke witht he engineer that built it and he told me it would be a viable big game round. I will be testing it on mule deer and elk this coming year so we'll see!

C



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