Highlights of the action include a spiral fluted bolt with an enlarged bolt handle, user-adjustable LBA trigger, two-position safety, smooth loading/feeding 4-round magazine and an included Picatinny optics rail. The 2-position manual safety is mounted on the left side of the bolt head, and permits manipulation of the bolt to remove a round in the chamber when in the on-safe position. Otherwise the trigger was perfect, with absolutely no take-up, creep or stacking. Out of the box, the trigger measured a heavy-for-me 5.1-pound pull weight, so the first thing I’d do is dial it down to about 3 pounds. The trigger is Mossberg’s patented LBA internal-blade-safety trigger-similar to the Savage Accu-Trigger-which is user adjustable for pull weight from two to seven pounds. It features a threaded muzzle (11/16” x 24 TPI) with muzzle cap for installation of a suppressor or the optional 18-port, 2.75-inch long muzzle brake ($43 on the Mossberg online store.) Other features include a 4-round detachable box magazine (4+1 round capacity), 6-inch receiver-mounted, Picatinny rail scope base, red fiber-optic ramp-mounted front sight, fully adjustable rear sight and a stainless-steel spiral-fluted two-lug bolt with internal extractor, spring-pin ejector and an enlarged bolt head. 450 Bushmaster Patriot Predator ($498) is a bolt-action rifle is built on a forged and machined carbon-steel receiver and fitted with a 16.25-inch barrel rifled at a 1:24” twist rate. ![]() ARX Preferred Hunting polymer/copper load. The Mossberg proved itself capable of stacking shots atop each other at 50-yards, turning in an amazing, best-of-test 0.45-inch 3-shot group using Interceptor Ammo’s unique 158-gr. ![]() FTX loading hits two inches low at the muzzle, 4.1 inches high at 100 yards and 19.3 inches low at 300 yards-it makes a BIG hole and has enough terminal energy to take any North American game animal. Even with its “rock-like” trajectory-sighted in at 200 yards, the 250-gr. Kudos to Mossberg for recognizing the utility of this real thumper of a cartridge. SST ML right below his ear and went down like he’d been hit by an 18-wheeler.Īll of which brings me to the subject of this article, Mossberg’s new Patriot Predator rifle chambered in. With ten years of sporting clays experience, I tracked the crosshairs out past the hog’s nose and pulled the trigger. And then there was the “last chance” guy … me. He hit a pine tree in an explosion of red bark. The next guy in line was the editor of a major national gun magazine who shall remain nameless. Steve Hornady was first up-only fair, since he was picking up the entire tab-but he missed. The dogs got that hog running flat out parallel to a line of three shooters at a range of about 100 feet. I got three hogs on that hunt, ranging from 350- to nearly 500-pounds-all one-shot kills-the biggest being a feral hog that somehow infiltrated the high-fence property. FTX-a superior performer, for sure-at a muzzle velocity of 2,200 f.p.s., with a muzzle energy of 2,686 ft. Since then they’ve replaced it with 250-gr. The ammo on that hunt was loaded with Hornady’s SST ML muzzleloading bullet in the appropriate diameter. 450 Bushmaster-and a variety of Trijicon magnifying optics, while Hornady brought the ammo. New for 2020 is the addition of a set of very nice open sights, the front of which being a bright-red fiber optic and the rear a fully adjustable ramp style.īushmaster suppled the rifles-all their new AR-15 models chambered in. The Patriot Predator’s 16.25-inch barrel helps make for a light, compact and handy package in the brush. I was one of the seven test hunters invited by Steve to attend a European black boar hunt in South Carolina. Before its public release, Steve Hornady decided it would be a good idea to assemble a group of professional writers/hunters to test the new cartridge on dangerous game. That’s probably because I was one of the very first mortals to shoot it. ![]() I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for the. 450 Bushmasterīy: Bill Battles Your compact, suppressor-ready, brush-busting machine
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