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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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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