New Rifles In 350 Legend
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 11 months ago
When Winchester Ammunition announced their straight-walled .350 Legend cartridge at SHOT Show 2019, only CMMG and Ruger had firearms chambered in the new round.
Now, roughly one year later, the potent round appears to be gaining traction with additional gun manufacturers with the latest adopter being Franklin Armory.
The cartridge was developed in response to various hunting laws in the United States that restrict calibers to straight-walled cartridges. This effectively restricted hunters to .30-30, .45-70 Gov or similar rounds in lever-action, or breech-loading rifles.
To give hunters an auto-loading alternative, Winchester developed the .350 Legend – a round that functions in a modified STANAG magazine in standard AR-15 magazine wells.
Despite being developed initially as a hunting round, it is equally as effective as defensive cartridge. There are even super-heavy subsonic loads available for shooters running a suppressor who want more ballistic energy than .300 BLK.
I’m not sure why it flew under the radar, but Rock River Arms also has an offering in 350 Legend, as well as uppers.
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On January 12, 2020 at 10:32 pm, BRVTVS said:
“The cartridge was developed in response to various hunting laws in the United States that restrict calibers to straight-walled cartridges. This effectively restricted hunters to .30-30”
This shows the the author doesn’t know what he’s writing about. The 30-30 is not a straight walled cartridge and is not legal in states that require straight walled cartridges.
On January 12, 2020 at 10:38 pm, Herschel Smith said:
@BRVTVS,
Yes, you’re right. I wasn’t fisking the entire writeup. I just thought I’d throw it out there that there is an increasing number of makers for this bore.
Again, I’d like to have one. For years I’ve thought that the .357 mag would be a great round to put into a MSR, and this is the closest thing I’ve found, with the added bonus of a little more power (somewhere on the order of 250 FPS).
On January 13, 2020 at 7:32 am, Ned said:
Great. Now when is someone going to make standard capacity mags?
On January 13, 2020 at 8:55 am, Sanders said:
I put my Bear Creek Arsenal upper on a Rock River lower. Ironic.
Was going to go out and test fire it this past weekend, but other things came up. I only have a few 10 round mags, but it is easy to modify P-mags to run the 350 Legend, but the 20 round only holds 19 and the 30 holds 29.