This year's version of "Happy Thanksgiving to me!" Mossberg .450 Patriot

[cabmandone]

Last year I bought a UTV as my Thanksgiving present to myself. This year I decided to go for something that would help me utilize my UTV. Sorry I haven't got an actual pic of the gun to post, it won't arrive till Friday.
It's a Mossberg Patriot .450 with a walnut stock (and this thing that tells time ). My friend bought a Ruger .450 American Rifle with go wild camo that he absolutely loves! His Ruger shoots great groups with factory loads. Hoping the Mossberg with a slightly shorter barrel will do the same. I like the classic look of the walnut stock as well as the added weight which should help with recoil. I'm debating on buying a muzzle brake for it but we'll see how it shoots before I go that route. I'll post a pic with optics mounted and maybe some target pics once I have it sighted in.

For now

[KFC911]

Nice....I wish I wuz as thankful as you are !

[cabmandone]

I'm hoping a nice 10 point won't be thankful come next week!

[cabmandone]

So here it is all dressed up and ready for the opening day of Ohio deer gun season. I have a Simmons 6x24x50 Prarie Master on Warne rings and weaver base on it. I added a Next Level NLX11 muzzle brake. Packs a pretty good punch and it's accurate. The target below was at 100 yards. I haven't tried it out to longer distances because I don't see me using it at 200-300 yards which the Hornady Black 250 grain bullets are capable of reaching with over 800 lbs of energy at 300 yards. Overall pretty happy with my thanksgiving gift this year! We'll see what tomorrow brings with opening day.

For some reason the target posted rotated 90 degrees to the left.