 Welcome to the Pyramid Insider, I'm Tyler Patner and today we're going to be talking about the Benjamin Bulldog in .457. So the Bulldog in .457 comes to us straight fresh from Shot Show 2022 and really you could see the writing on the wall for Benjamin and Crossman, you know, they wanted to get a bigger bore gun in there. That .35 cal .357 Bulldog was always a great gun for them but needing to go bigger kind of keeping up with the rest of the market. So we're going to run down the features, take it out to the range, put it over the chronograph, do everything that we normally do and see if this Bulldog .457 is one that you need to have in your hunting arsenal. Now starting at the front of the .457 Bulldog we have a threaded muzzle. Now this is an M18 thread so obviously you got to go bigger because you have that larger bore on the gun. So if you want to thread on a Donnie F.L. or something like that you certainly can drop him back just a little bit. We have a slightly longer air cylinder. This is 440 cc's compared to the 340 cc's we see on the .357. Moving on back you'll notice we do have our front sling swivel stud here. There is one in the back of the gun as well. Now we don't have a Picatinny rail on this one which is a little disappointing for me personally because obviously it's nice and easy to add a bipod there but not a huge deal. You can if you want to mount an over the top mounted rail bipod onto the Picatinny rail up here. And speaking of this Picatinny rail up top you have 26 inches of pick rail here to work with. Whether you want to add a smaller scope than this and maybe go with some other accessories lights, lasers, whatever you think you need out in the field you have the ability to mount it here which is awesome. Now dropping down we do have your traditional pistol grip here. You also have the same two stage trigger which is real solid right around three, three and a half pounds or so and the same manual safety that's very easy to operate nice and conveniently located. Working our way back you do have your pressure gauge here. This gun fills the 3000 PSI which I like a lot for those of you that are hand pumping or maybe working off a tank and you don't have a compressor or a shop local to you that can fill your tank you're going to get a lot of fills on this guy and I like that 3000 PSI fill pressure quite a bit as we see the rest of the industry kind of go higher than that so this is a nice little feature in my opinion that they've been able to keep that 3000 PSI pressure. Now working our way back just a hair further is the side lever. What I will tell you guys about this gun from an operational perspective this has a heavier hammer spring in it that's how they got more power out of it part of the reason anyway. So when you're operating this from your shoulder it is a little bit difficult to cock that back every time but it's not unbearable this is very doable but just a little bit awkward so something to keep in mind there you may have to take the gun out of your shoulder to cock it. Now as we work to the breach of this gun a little bit of a departure from the 357 which has a five round mag this is your three round gravity fed magazine clip whatever you want to call it just drops right in now what you will notice here is that you can't push a slug in from the top and that's to prevent them from falling out when you do have them loaded in. So loading this is really simple you're just going to take your slugs and stick them in right like so until you have three stacked up like that and again the nice thing is I'm going to dump them over here you can't actually drop that out so when it's in the gun if you do flip it over you're not going to lose your rounds that's a really nice easy feature and I can tell you this works like a charm I was a little skeptical of this at first I wasn't sure if it would work so well but no feeding issues using it for our accuracy testing all of our pretesting as well and real nice and easy to just slip into the breach there dropping down from the breach we do have our male quick disconnect fill fitting right here obviously everybody knows quick disconnect fittings all the rage way to go no fill probes makes it nice and easy to fill this gun up to that 3000 psi mark and you just replace the cover by pressing it in pretty easy to do they're a little bit finicky to get off for what it's worth rubber butt pad at the back other features here you have a 28 and a half inch rifle barrel seems to be doing quite well in our pretesting but I think it's time we head out to the range and go see what she's got all right so accuracy at 45 yards obviously the bulldog in 357 does quite a good job out to these distances let's see how the 457 does with the new benjamin 279 grains an inch and an eighth not bad you know certainly hunting friendly at that distance but by far better those air venturi 300 grainers are a stud 5 8 inch that's like 0.6 inches great grouping there at 45 yards this is going to probably do very well a little bit further out also one thing I should say is we did not have the new benjamin 350 grainers at the time of our testing so we didn't have an opportunity to test those but we went through pretty much everything else that we currently offer in this 457 size and these were the two best so let's see what they do over the chronograph we're also going to chronograph one of our heavier slugs a 400 plus grain slug to see what the max energy of this guy is from a full 3000 psi fill the 279 grains and the 300 grain slugs you're looking at about 364 to 366 foot pounds of energy and just for kicks we shot those 405 grain slugs as well we're topping out at 415 foot pounds well short of benjamin's rating of 450 foot pounds but still plenty for medium and big game there's no doubt about that and I definitely agree that three shots is the absolute maximum you're going to want to do from a full fill with the bulldog 457 let's wrap up the benjamin bulldog 457 one that I'm really happy to see a benjamin and crossman finally come to market with it was time they did something bigger than the 357 and I think this fills that niche nicely I'm not getting quite the 450 foot pounds of energy that they're rating this gun for but for what's out there those 300 grain shoot phenomenally well out to 50 yards and you're going to get plenty of power you're talking three good solid shots that are going to be capable of taking game this gun is a stud and one you definitely need to check out especially if you're in the market for a shorter big bore gun that is going to be much more size friendly if you're in a blind or a tree stand when I like a lot check out the benjamin bulldog 457 next time you're on pyramidair.com for the insider I'm Tyler Pattener as always don't forget to like comment subscribe check us out on facebook and instagram as well and we'll see you at the next one