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    First kill with my .45 Raptor and thermal

    Went to my buddy’s place a couple of weeks ago to see if I can drop the hammer on a pig or two.

    Texasbound (Eric Lee) built my AR. It’s chambered in .45 Raptor which is nothing more than a rimless .460 SW in an AR-10 platform. Same load data as the .460 as well.

    This thing is a beast. It can launch a 160 gr projectile over 3,000 fps, or it can lob 500 gr lead boulders. Out of the big 3 bigbore AR’s (.450 Bushmaster, 50 Beowulf, and the .458 SOCOM), the Raptor leaves them all in the dust.

    I was using .275 gr Barnes XPB under a healthy charge of 4227. I believe I was getting around 2400 fps with this load.

    Anyway, the first two pigs came out at 8:30. I picked the Raptor up, looked through the FLIR RS32 Thermal, and dropped the biggest one.

    His buddy ran directly at me and stopped about 50 yards out. I put the crosshairs on him, but my gun failed to fire. Hard primer or light primer strike. [emoji57]

    About an hour later, I picked my gun up and scanned the field. I saw another pig literally step over the dead pig and commenced to eating corn.

    Thinking that was awfully disrespectful, I dropped that one. About 10 mins later, I heard some rustling in the woods, looked through the thermal, and the second one was gone.

    Anyway, here’s my first kill with the Raptor and FLIR.


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          #5
          Looks like you did some damage on that one.

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            #6
            I bet he did drop!!
            I'll have to look up that caliber.First I've heard of it.

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              #7
              3000fps with 160’s??

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                Messed up some good shoulder meat[emoji16]

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Snowflake Killa View Post
                  Messed up some good shoulder meat[emoji16]

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                  PLENTY of additional hogs in Texas to get meat from.

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                    B.T..Are there any firearms dealer's mass producing them? Midway's got the ammo,but I can't find anything else,except barrel manufacturers.I'm not gonna build one,but I'd buy one built commercially.

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                      #11
                      Holy crap that round ate him up

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                        #12
                        Congrats...Never heard of the 45 Raptor.
                        And I thought my 450 Bushy was the shizz
                        Rock on.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Artos View Post
                          3000fps with 160’s??


                          Yeah.




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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Blood Trail View Post
                            This thing is a beast. It can launch a 160 gr projectile over 3,000 fps, or it can lob 500 gr lead boulders. Out of the big 3 bigbore AR’s (.450 Bushmaster, 50 Beowulf, and the .458 SOCOM), the Raptor leaves them all in the dust.
                            True, but unlike the other 3 the Raptor won't work in an AR15.

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                              Originally posted by Hart8 View Post
                              B.T..Are there any firearms dealer's mass producing them? Midway's got the ammo,but I can't find anything else,except barrel manufacturers.I'm not gonna build one,but I'd buy one built commercially.

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                              There’s a few companies building the uppers.

                              Really simple to convert your existing AR-10 in .308 to .45 Raptor. All you have to do is swap out the .308 barrel for the .45 raptor barrel and mod your .308 mag.

                              I didn’t wanna fool with the mag nodding so I just purchased mine.

                              You can make the brass by cutting out the neck of a .308 or 30-06 casing (you’ll have to trim the 06) and blowing out the mouth to .452”.

                              I decided to buy the brass from starline.


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