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Posted: 10/31/2011 5:32:16 AM EDT
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About to pull the trigger on a really good deal for a .450 upper. It got me wondering what all of you that have a .450 do for mags?
Did you modify one, or buy one? If you bought one, who all is selling them? ETA: pulled the trigger, shipped out today |
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About to pull the trigger on a really good deal for a .450 upper. It got me wondering what all of you that have a .450 do for mags? Did you modify one, or buy one? If you bought one, who all is selling them? ETA: pulled the trigger, shipped out today One 5 round magazine came with mine. The Bushmaster Mags Work Separately, I obtained several of the Sig 556 magazines. They Work Here's an old link from the archives that touches on mags.... Here's one more old link from the archives that touches on some problems encountered with mags... |
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Thanks for the help, i'm probably going to pick up a couple of the stoner mags from midway for now, i'll wait and see if this upper comes with one.
For those of you that are not reloading, are you using the hornady ammo? I need to decide what i want so i can order it today.... |
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Thanks for the help, i'm probably going to pick up a couple of the stoner mags from midway for now, i'll wait and see if this upper comes with one. For those of you that are not reloading, are you using the hornady ammo? I need to decide what i want so i can order it today.... I have dies, brass and powder, but the hornady factory ammo shoots so good in mine I've yet to hand load for it. I do want to try some different bullet weights eventually, but with sub moa groups out of the factory stuff, I just don't have any pressure to do so yet. That's been my experience. Of course, ymmv. |
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Is there any reason all the .450 bushmaster ammo i'm finding from hornady is called leverloution? I'm thinking it must just be the bullet? I think leverevolution refers to the projectile. The plastic tips in the leverevolution bullet use a softer compound so that you can use pointed bullets in tubular magazine rifles like lever action .30-30's. They use the same bullets in .45 LC ammo that is pretty popular in lever guns. The alternate name for the bullets is FTX (Flex Tip eXpanding) |
| There is a differance with the new factory 450 mags and just using the drop in follower. The factory mags have a half round cut in the front. This really improves feeding with that fat 450. You can do it yourself to regular 556 mags with a dremel tool. But it would be trial and error to get it right. Look on GunBroker. I just got 3 new factory mags for $129 shipped. |
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I think I saw where some guys were using sig mags with out issues . I like the lancer mags for my 458 socom. I use the Lancer's for my Beowulf unmodified, runs like a Swiss watch. I'm guessing they'll work good for the other big bores. so you guys are using unmodified lancers ? |
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Gents
Go to the nearest Academy Sports and get the 2 pack of the Sig 30 rounders. They fit & function perfectly right out of the box for the 450 Bushmaster. I personally decided to mill the follower down like I did for the 223/243/25 wssm Olympic Arms magazines, doing this the Sig mags take an extra round Hope this helps Art. |
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buy the BM 5rders for hunting
buy the sig 556 for 12rds call it good, i heard the stoners werent that reliable just for shits i shot mine this weekend at 250yds and 3" steel plate 3" thick, it penetrated the 3" thick steel about 1-1.5" out of 5 shots with 10mph wind i hit the 3" target 4 times out of the next 10 i hit it 7 times, gun is good to go for me out toe 250yds |
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