#45 70 thumper free

My barrel was slick and shiny after shooting over 400 rounds of jacketed and powder coated (PC) bullets, with superb accuracy. The Hornady factory loaded 250-grain FTX ammo was extremely accurate. Even those “new fangled” jacketed bullets grouped well. The low mag scope is about perfect for the close-range shooting this rifle is designed for, and were shot at 100 yards.īeing a hardcore cast bullet aficionado, I was pleased. My scoped accuracy tests were accomplished with my trusty Weaver 2.5X scope in the Ruger rings.

Best of all, Buster showed a penchant for stacking my cast bullet loads into tiny groups. Using the fine peep and front irons while shooting at 50 yards with a sandbag rest, the sight picture was picture-perfect and the trigger pull was light and crisp. Cooper, I aptly named my rifle “Buster.” Buster earned his moniker by placing his shots into itty-bitty groups and did a splendid job “busting” rocks on the berm, pulverizing them into white powdered dust drifting away in the breeze. Not wanting my Scout rifle to feel neglected or confused, and in the spirit of Col. Plus, it completes the rugged jungle carbine look. The included Ruger Precision Rifle Hybrid muzzlebrake effectively reduces felt recoil, while minimizing blast by directing it to the sides of the shooter. One steel 4-round, detachable box magazine is included with a push-forward release in front of the durable glass-reinforced triggerguard and magazine well. There’s a handy 3-position safety allowing the bolt to run with the safety on for loading and unloading. The stainless steel, 1-piece bolt has a Mauser-like non-rotating extractor with controlled-round feeding and fixed ejector for reliable feeding and extraction. The American walnut stock has a length-of-pull from 12.75 to 14.25 inches adjustable using any combination of three 1/2-inch spacers (included) fitting between the stock and comfortable rubber buttpad. A single 3/32-inch hex bolt holds the peep sight in place, and adjustments are unchanged when removed. This fast tracking sight system is sturdy, accurate and has a 20-inch sight radius. The Scout comes issued with a rugged aperture (“peep”) sight, adjustable for windage and elevation, along with a non-glare, protected blade front sight. Both barrel and rail have a matte black finish. The alloy steel action has Ruger’s integral standard scope cutouts for traditional scope rings, which are included, giving the shooter options for scope mounting. Scout-style mounting encourages a shooter to keep both eyes open for fast target acquisition, and doesn’t hinder top loading of the action.

The barrel also has a forward mounted Picatinny rail, allowing for the classic “Scout-style” mounting of an intermediate scope.

#45 70 thumper free

450 Scout carbine has a cold hammered-forged 16.1-inch barrel, free floated, with a 1:16-inch RH twist. Bushmaster International now licenses the. Cooper’s “Thumper” ideology in an AR platform. 284 Winchester and is the brainchild of Tim LeGendre of LeMag Firearms, who fulfilled Col. While I like and appreciate rimmed cartridges in lever-guns and single-shot rifles, the rebated rim is perfect for smoothly riding the rails of a bolt-action rifle as it’s fed into the chamber. 450 Bushmaster is shorter, a tad thinner in bullet diameter (0.452 inch) and has a rebated rim. 450 Bushmaster American as a regular cataloged item. 450 Bushmaster fit the bill and the initial order sold out quickly. Last year, Randy Brown of Randy’s Hunting Center in Michigan brainstormed having Ruger build a limited run of affordable bolt-action rifles in their American model line for the special limited firearm deer zone in lower Michigan, which only allows straight-wall, centerfire cartridges, within certain parameters. Based on Cooper’s concepts, the rifle is named after the training facility he founded in 1976. 308 Winchester, debuted at the 2011 SHOT Show. Ruger’s first Gunsite Scout rifle, chambered in. It matches up with Cooper’s notion of a “Thumper.” 450 Bushmaster Gunsite Scout Rifle fits these criteria with ease. By Cooper’s own definition, this would be a big-bore carbine (.44 caliber, or larger) capable of taking 1,000-pound critters at 250 yards. 450 Bushmaster completes the Phase II theory of Col.