October 19th 6 point with an AR in 350 Legend

[parallaxbill]

Easy 50 yard shot. Winchester 150 gr. No browtines.

[iwsbull]

That 350 looks like it was tearing up stumps on its way thru. Nice shot

[jfs]

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[squawberryman]

Did you shoot him with a fully automatic paintball gun?

[x101airborne]

Great meat-saving shot! Bet he wasn't hard to track.

[parallaxbill]

He dropped in his tracks. I guess that's why he was so bloody. Never moved. The shot exited behind the shoulder on the off side.

[parallaxbill]

There is a lot of negative information out on the 350 Legend, maybe due to it's name but it works exceedingly well. Lots of power.
I would assume it would do just as well out of a revolver or other pistol.

[cdf41]

I'm putting a 10.5 inch pistol AR together for this coming deer season and a feral hog hunt at the end of December. Will see if I get lucky enough to take something with it.
Planning on light weight due to shoulder surgery 2 months ago, will be minimal with a red dot sight.

[bula]

I've yet to score with my Savage 350L but there are 3 amongst the gang at camp. They get handed off to wives and kids and maybe a dozen deer downed per what I've heard. I opted for the 180 Win loading, any angle bullet for deer, and would carry for bear. 

[jeffh]

Posts like this do me no good.

Regarding the "bad rap" for the "350,..."

I have a "spare" CZ527 Carbine in 7.62x39, which is heading to a show tomorrow if I don't get a text from a guy claiming it before then. Ever since this "Legend" thingy started, it's made it hard to get rid of this carbine, because, think about it - a full-Mauser-featured, diminutive bolt-action in 357MAX. What's not to love!?

I've been working my way in the opposite direction for over a decade, reducing the number of mouths to feed, reducing the variations of brass I have to stock, bullets to cast, etc. Since the 357 MAG is my primary and most-used/most useful long-gun these days, all I had to do was add a 357 MAX Contender carbine barrel and a small lot of cases. Dies, moulds, etc. cross over. The 357 MAX is a real doll in a carbine, so why wouldn't a 350 be?

Of course, it WOULD, actually.

I keep using the silly name and esoteric brass as an excuse, but the brass is available and comparatively inexpensive. What a conundrum.

Posts like this keep poking at my conscience and sensibilities, but how do I reduce the hardware and inventory I have to account for is people keep posting stuff like this??

I'm not trying to teach or convince anyone else here. I'm seriously just thinking out loud - trying to make up my pwn mind.

I HAVE a 357 Max carbine to hunt with, so I don't NEED a 350 bolt-action, but having a little 527 in a 35 caliber would be so, so cool.


Nice buck, and thank you for sharing a 350 success story. I don't go around hailing the 350, but once one scrapes off all the BS, it's a good and viable cartridge, allowing one to benefit from 357 Max ballistics in a bolt-gun or a semi-auto. 35s and cast bullets present a very wide path for one to meander within, leaving options open to feed a pocketable personal protection revolver to a bolt-gun thumper in 35 Whelen or 350 Rem Mag... All the 35s in the middle are incredibly useful.

[bula]

Just peeked in a 2022 Hodgden manual and compared 30-30 (24") 170gr velos to 350 Legend (24") 170-180gr velos. Yup, same/same, hmmm..LOL. 

[bula]

What is helping the 350L is that initial bullets options from Winchester and some others have been well tailored to targeted game, and ranges anticipated. Eastern woodlands, upper midwest and such. 

[flyingzebra]

Nov 12, 2022 7:19:19 GMT -5 bula said:

What is helping the 350L is that initial bullets options from Winchester and some others have been well tailored to targeted game, and ranges anticipated. Eastern woodlands, upper midwest and such it runs in the AR platform.

There we go.
I fixed that for you.

:-)

[bula]

Well, your not wrong, but none of my friends have an AR version. Am talking terminal performance in the field happiness. There have been cartridges that were doomed by lack of proper bullets per the intended usage. Others twist rate hampered, etc.. I do  dis-like naming something brand new, "Legend" is in poor taste, misleading, etc.. But the dern thing WORKS. 

[jeffh]

Nov 12, 2022 10:40:52 GMT -5 bula said:

Well, your not wrong, but none of my friends have an AR version. Am talking terminal performance in the field happiness. There have been cartridges that were doomed by lack of proper bullets per the intended usage. Others twist rate hampered, etc.. I do  dis-like naming something brand new, "Legend" is in poor taste, misleading, etc.. But the dern thing WORKS. 

No argument.  I haven't used it, but anecdotal evidence abounds, as well as a lot of solid history in its predecessor.  It's an avatar of what some consider "failed," but which hangs on because it WORKS.

The "dern thing just WORKS," exactly like its stigmatized father, the 357 Max.  The 'Max has suffered from a lack of sex-appeal to what appears to be the majority market, which demands "new," and is highly vested in the AR platform.

I never had the slightest desire to join the Cowboy-Action scene, but I benefited greatly from what that market did for the availability and accessibility of a very wide range of choices in single-actions, particularly fixed-sighted ones.  I believe that other single-actions, heavier, more powerful ones with adjustable sights for hunting and long-range handguning in general also benefited greatly from this market's momentum. Never dressed up like a cowboy.  Never assumed an alias.  I sure appreciate what those who did and do have done for the rest of us though.

Never owned an AR (borrowed several from the taxpayers for a few years) and probably never will, but I'm firmly convinced that there is ONE reason this cartridge took off, and it's not because it WORKS, it's because it pleases the masses and they can use it in their ARs.  I'm grateful for that.

When the 450 Marlin appeared, I jumped right on it.  I bought 500 once-fired cases, made available through factory-testing, hundreds of jacketed 45 cal. "blem" bullets on the cheap, snagged dies, was gifted a BUNCH of cast from a friend who was "afflicted" as well and never bothered looking at a lever-action for it.  I drug out a nice VZ-24 98 action and started getting it ready for a bolt-action 45-70 I was able to create without paying a premium for a Siamese Mauser.  "Superior ballistics" be damned!  I just wanted a bolt-action 45-70!  Part way through the project, I decided I had too many irons in the fire and started my cull, narrowing things down to a few useful-to-me guns.

My problem now is that, yeah, it WORKS!

I have a potential donor bolt-rifle, which I adore, which would be a perfect platform for the 350.  I've day-dreamed of an 18" barreled, full-stocked, peep-sighted, five-pound lightening-bolt, which I could actually USE during Ohio's deer season.  I really didn't need this right now,....

I truly hope that the fact that this cartridge WORKS keeps it popular for a long time.  Maybe even long enough to live up to the ill-chosen name.

Steve, you'll be at least partially responsible if I give in and pervert the course of my objective regarding my personal battery.  What you (and others) say about the cartridge have been validating my own suppositions.