45 Bushmaster
I guess everyone wants to invent a round these days. Bushmaster has introduced an AR-15 that shoots the .45 Bushmaster cartridge and it looks like they’re going for the big bore market:
The .45 Bushmaster – big bore power in an “AR” platform – one gun industry writer exclaimed… “I’ve found my new hog-hunting gun!” This powerful cartridge – developed in affiliation with Hornady – is tamed by the AR type gas operating system so that recoil is reduced to a heavy thump, and second shot control is retained. Standard AR type 30 round magazines are fitted with a blue single stack follower to yield a full magazine capacity of nine rounds.
Think I’d rather have one in 45 ACP.
August 7th, 2006 at 10:23 am
Check out the “homemade” AR45 that Justin has made. He plans on selling 10% and 80% receivers.
August 7th, 2006 at 11:11 am
“Think I’d rather have one in 45 ACP.”
My thoughts exactly.
August 7th, 2006 at 11:30 am
Yeah, with the .458 SOCOM from Teppojutsu, Tromix and RRA, and the .499 Leitner-Wise and the .50 Beowulf, I’m wondering where, exactly, they saw an empty niche. Either a .45 ACP or straight-out .45-70 would have probably been more profitable.
ColtCCO
August 7th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
Do I hear a bid for .45 LC?
Dang, gun rag writers are a bunch of suck-ups, aren’t they?
August 7th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
Yep, i’ll wait for the .45 ACP version.
August 8th, 2006 at 9:55 am
It does make a little sense… .451 projectiles are cheap and plentiful, and if it’s made from untrimmed .45acp base stock then the brass shouldn’t be too expensive. It could be perhaps not *better* but definitely cheaper.
I don’t know about you guys, but I’d hate to try and feed a rimmed cartridge off the top of that straight stretch of magwell there. Seems ripe for some *nasty* rim locking.