S-weet. If the gun misfires, you can pull out a round and just throw it at the deer.
If you don't plan on reloading, get used to counting in your head, every time you pull the trigger, $3, $6, $9, $12, $15, $18, $21... Kinda took the fun out of it for me.
But it got me into reloading in a hurry. My .458 is now my favorite gun to shoot.
I'm goning to get a rock chucker press eventually. I heard of guys reusing brass 12 times because the pressure on the 458 is so low you get alot of life out of your brass.
A hunting buddy has one & his jams real bad. I hope yours is not that bad.
I was going to buy one but after seeing his problem I went with a AR pistol in .300 AAC Blackout for deer. It is light easy to carry & dead accurate out to about 150yds.
My mid-length .458 was a jam-o-matic when I got it. RRA supplied the upper with 2 different recoil springs. The thing wouldn't reliably cycle with either. Installed a standard 5.56 spring, much better. The chambers on RRAs are also notoriously tight which doesn't help. Several hundred rounds through mine now and the only problem I still have is that occasionally the bolt doesn't lock back on an empty mag.
when you do get to shoot it be sure and take pics of your test objects. lol i like wet newspapers with wood backing to test slugs. thats a thumper of a round there. be great for deer i bet!
Tried it out today and it was ok. Very easy to sight in. I don't have a lot of experience with scopes, so at 50yards at 6x magnification I was shakey as hell but It only took a couple of shots to sight in. The eye relief was sufficient. I did realize my stomach is a bit to big to comfortably shoot prone. Time to loose weight. It was about 20 degrees this morning so I didn't spend any time focusing the lens. I didn't take any pics because we were just shooting paper. I put subs and supers through it today and it was nice. Compared to the weight of the gun I didn't even notice the suppressor was on it. The thing with the hybrid is to keep checking it to see if something comes loose if you fire alot of shots. Afterwards it stuck to my 300BO flash hider, which is a common issue for the Silencerco ASR mount. It happened to my son's Specwar last week
Jamming is why I went with Tromix. I truly think it is a better all around upper. Plus the lightweight is just awesome for building a deep woods gun. Lots of guys have issues with RRA, but they usually smooth out
after enough rounds.
looking forward to some of the pics of the testing media!
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