Amy other fellow 450 bushy shooters in here ? Love to shoot my little thumper and gonna start reloading for it when I get some time.
Charlotte areaCharles said:DrDover where are you located?
Nice looking rifle!
Also like the big holes it punches, how is the recoil?
@Qball
I can't remember if he has a 450 bushmaster or 50 Beowulf
I have a little bruising on my shoulder, and I now know why they call it "Thumper!" The A2 stock is very hard and has a hard, sharp checkered butt plate. I imagine felt recoil would be much less firing offhand where one's body has some give. Shooting it at the bench off of sandbags really gave a good recoil pulse and 22 rounds with just a tee shirt was all I could do. Next time at the bench I will use a slip on recoil pad.
I run a Magpul PRS stock on my Beowulf. It has a .308 buffer and spring in it. The increase mass of the stock seems to help a little. It still rocks my shoulder pretty good but not near as much as it did when I had a skeleton stock installed. It was brutal with that stock and I could only manage about 4 or 5 shots before I had to walk away. Mine doesn't have a brake so that's mainly why it has heavy recoil.