that's part of the reason you couldn't find other ammo, resources went into pushing a new caliber n everybody. those primers and cases could have been put into more common rounds, but that didn't drive rifle sales near as well.
@@sinisterthoughts2896 No way, most of the popular calibers have dedicated machines, I'm sure they aren't doing changeovers for calibers they aren't sold out on.
You forgot to mention how 350 legend is probably the best performing ar15 cartridge in short barrels, the combination of straight wall with crazy fast burning powders mean you can get awesome performance out of 10.5" guns, 350 legend absolutely smokes 300 blackout.
I found that it wasn't the feed lips causing the jams. If I slowly push the loaded rounds forward, the case mouth was catching on the front of the magazine. Which I believe was causing the round to pop up over the chamber and jam. I took a Dremel and relieved the front of the mag just enough to clear the case mouth, and wow, no more jams.
Apparently there’s 2 ribs in the front of a pmag. If you remove them then 350 legend will run fine. 350 legend is slightly wider and longer if I’m not mistaken. Like the base of 5.56 is .36 and 350 legend is .39 but yeah you need to remove the ribs from the magazine.
me too, I find bending the feed lips up *slightly* helped in my stock mag, the first 4 rounds sit funny, but feeds flawless now. thats a standby for old 7.62 mags also took a felt dremel wheel with polishing compound and hit the bolt face, especially the bottom helps the end of the round slide smoothly up across the bolt face and align onto the extractor then into battery. last remove the extractor from the bolt and put the o-ring into your spare parts, it helps with the new stiffness, and believe me mine still hucks the casings 20 feet
I’m in Australia we aren’t allowed ar15 but no restrictions on straight wall or length, but I love my 350L bolt action , super easy to shoot next to no recoil and with a can on the end it’s a great sub gun I handload and find it easier then necked cartridges with projectiles from 90gr to 200gr and 250gr for subs , I think it’s a perfect all rounder , don’t get me wrong there are a lot better calibers if your chasing velocity or energy , but for 99% of hunting over here it’s fantastic
I am in Auz as well, what rifle are you using with the 350L?. What range you getting good results as I love a straight wall but worried it's to specific to ar rifles and US states that require a straight wall
@@bestestusername I’m using ruger go wild great rifle and cheap compared to others , and in real world hunting conditions I’ve shot out to 150m , I’ve never needed to shoot farther then that as I can normally stalk into 75-100m but saying that I think 250-300 would be a max range for clean kill
@@christianborghi7544 Nice, its very true we don't need long range as our scrub can be quick thick. Can't go past a ruger rifle for price and performance.
I use the .450 Bushmaster. I run 30 rounds mags with the big bore single stack follower, and cut 2 coils out of the spring. I use a Dremel sanding drum to cut a notch in the front of the mag for the larger round. Each mag holds 10 rounds, and feeds pretty damn reliable now.
I’m having a lot of fun playing with my 350Legend AR-15’s, I run them suppressed. I reload my ammunition. Some hiccups in feeding,, I’m working out those kinks. Certainly lots of inexpensive ammo options. Good mags are out there. From Duramag 10rd, 20rd. Ultimately it suppresses well, fits in a small frame AR
I love the 350 Legend, brilliant little cartridge in my opinion. I built two 350 Legend ARs for shooting hogs here in Texas, a 12.5" pistol and 16" rifle. The only time I had any trouble with ammo was using the 145 grain FMJ, all other ammo worked fine. I use C Products Defense/Duramag magazines and mostly shoot the 150 grain Winchester Deer Season XP, but I have used Winchester and Federal 180 grainers without issue as well. Keep your chamber clean, the straight wall case with a slight taper doesn't take as much dirt or sand to mess with chambering. Also, there is another cartridge that I love that uses the same 5.56 bolt, the 300 Ham'r from Wilson Combat, great little round for varmints, deer and hogs. Thanks for the video.
350 won't chamber correctly if it gets slightly dirty? I shot mine rapidly with a 20 round mag. First mag used cycled perfectly without issues, second magazine would jam every 5 to 6 rounds. Was it the magazine or the chamber? 🤔
@@joesashiify I was just saying the slightly tapered straight wall cases like the 350 Legend don't take as much of a dirty or gritty chamber to induce chambering issues as it does with the bottleneck cartridges like 5.56. I have only used C Products Defense/ Duramags and had no issues. Bought a 350 Legend upper from BCA and it was having chambering issues, sent it back and they polished the chamber, no issues since.
I have a Ruger AR and also use only C-products duramags. Early on I had trouble with the original 5 Rd mag and one of the 10 round mags I found local. I found small discrepancies in the height of the front of the mag body in relation to the top surface of the follower. In those 2 mag only. So I relieved them just slightly with a Dremel and a half round needle file. Gun has been 100% reliable since and it's just over 2000 rounds in now. There were small dents at the case mouth of every round that failed to feed very hard to notice but you could feel them with your nail. I have over a dozen 20 rounders and these are all lower in the area I addressed. So I suspect they found this issue early on and addressed it.
I used it in a Ruger Ranch for 3 yrs now. 3 - 200+lb Bucks, 2 - 200lb + black bears. All under 200yds. The bullet hits like a truck and has amazing expansion. No animal I've shot went more than 10yds. They just dropped. Hitting plates is one thing, dropping animals is another. This is my 42nd year hunting. I've never seen any bullet do this. That is my field report. FYI, my brother dropped 1000lb moose at 120yds this last fall. Never moved, just fell.
The 350 Legend is still a relatively new cartridge, so I would not fault the magazine makers if an alternate cartridge in a rifle designed for .223 has issues. I had to do some magazine tuning on my 7.62*39 AR to get it to work properly. I bought C-Products mags which (According to the internet.) are the best for 7.62*39 but still had to grind down the front of the magazine so that the case neck did not catch, flatten the rib at the front of the feed lips so that the rim did not catch and open the front of the feed lips; those mods made my Russian Collusion AR run flawlessly.
That picture of the .350 S&W Revolver was pretty funny. Gives more credence to the comments calling .350 "9mm Maximum" 😆 Just got my .350 Legend barrel in the mail today. I'm excited to finish the build.
@@Johnny-jr2lqI chambered my TC Encore in 350. Mainly cause ammo is plentiful in a state that doesn't have straight wall restrictions. I also just stuck with 16" to avoid SBR tax.
I'm using a BCA 350 Legend upper, Stainless Heavy barrel. I have not had any issues for the first 100 rounds I have run threw it. Between the 145gr and the 180gr. I'm getting sub-MOA with this setup zero at 100 yards. I built this for doing Hog hunting. Now S&W has the 350 Legond in a revolver that looks AWESOME!!! Again after 80 rounds of 145 gr and 20 rounds of 180 gr, I have had no issues jamming. This upper has run Flawlessly.
I also built a 16" in 350L using a BCA upper. It runs flawlessy with everything except the Browning 125 gr. FMJ as those use the round nose bullets and they jam, but everything else runs 100%. I bought 350L specific CMMG mags and have had no issues. It shoots MOA and sub MOA all day at 100 yards. I saw the S&W 350L x-frame, pretty cool. However, now that the 360 Buck Hammer is out (basically a rimmed version of the 350L), it might make more sense in a revolver.
I have one in the Ruger MPR and so far it has been 100% reliable. It also puts a hurting on deer hogs and coyotes it has some punch. My most used round is Stienel with the maker copper bullet.
My buddy and I share the same gun, we’ve run about 1,000 rounds through it and the only failures we’ve had were on modified mags. Using gen 2 pmags we’ve never had a single failure.
Really like the 350 in my AR. After the magazine upgrades my reliability went 100%. With my ammo choices. Pistol version also reliable with nickel boron bolt carrier 🎉
Have used 350 Legend in a Savage Axis bolt rifle since 2021 for deer hunting in PA (near Pittsburgh where its limited to straight wall and shotgun). 2 does and 1 buck I've shot haven't gone 10 yards. Excellent round and cheapest straight wall option.
This cartridge will reload with.357 also. Winchester designed it for that. Just cut your powder charges back a grain or two to keep pressure at acceptable levels and be very observant of pressure signs. Some have barrels custom chambered barrels with a bore designed for .358 bullets. CMMG mags work the best. The only bullets mine fails to feed 100% are those flat nose 125g xtp hollow points or bullets with the same profile. And even then only the first one of a full stack and not always.
It all depends on the chamber throat. A quick way to check is to take a fired case and see if a .357" bullet will slip in easily. If it doesn't, your gun won't handle the .357" bullets.
@@demsrchildabusers7959 If your rifle can't chamber a .357" projectile and is chambered for .350 legend, it's out of spec. The specification explicitly states that the projectile of .350 legend is between .354" and .357" in diameter, and that there's a throat of between .357" and .3575". The only time I figure that you might find a rifle that can't chamber a .357" projectile is if the projectile was actually oversized, OR if the rifle was made before the SAAMI spec. The .357" came about during the later stages of development due to Ohio having a rule for hunting that a projectile has to be at least .357" in diameter. Winchester got around by saying the projectile has to be .357" with a -.0030" tolerance, thus allowing between .354" and .357", conforming to the requirements of Ohio's hunting laws.
Have had some feeding hiccups ( not a ton ) in my 350L build. Thanks for the mag info. Oldest daughter used it last season to take her first buck ( Mature 11 pointer ) Using the Win XP 150gr BT. I have zero complaints on her shooting nor the effectiveness of the cartridge on game.
as a gunsmith, the best possible improvement to feeding issues was to grind out and polish the center area making a single feed ramp into the chamber. this eases the entry angle and reduces the stovepipe problems
.350 is my #1 caliber for hogs and deer in Texas. Kills 100s of hogs a year for me w/o any malfunctions. 35 caliber, ar15 platform, 556 recoil, cheaper ammo - no brained.
I chose the AR upper option as I already have a dedicated lower that I built for hunting so I can swap appropriate upper for my different hunting needs. I use mine for whitetail brush hunting. It’s devastating on deer.And very lite recoil. What I do to help the feeding issues is I’ll use some G 96 oil and after I load the magazine up, I’ll put one littel squirt on the “ neck “ of the round or lack there of. And that really helps the reliability of the feeding. Basically making my own lubed round. I’m hunting in Missouri so I don’t need to worry about the oil freezing up.
I had the exact same thing happen in 2 ar uppers in 350 legend and if I were to run my Ruger American bolt action fast. Adjusting the feed ramps on the barrel on one of the AR uppers did help but bumping up and out the first front quarter of the feed lips of the mags solved everything. What I found was needing to happen was the shell needed to exit the magazine a touch earlier then for the blackout for 556 simply bc the straight wall design requires it to enter the chamber as straight in as possible. The 556 and 300 blk doesn’t have this issue bc the straight portion of the shell has already passed the feed lips to the point where the shell will pop up and inline with the chamber. This even drastically improved the sluggish feeling of my Ruger American ranch as well.
You had muzzle energy available already. Combine that with the higher momentum and you basically have a round that has superior terminal ballistics, until it doesn't due to low ballistic coefficient and cross sectional density. Inside 100 yards it's straight up superior. Although .300blk 110gr might give it a run for its money.
I got a radical firearms 350 legend. I had jamming issues when I first got it. But the more I used the the less and less it jammed. Now it hardly ever jams. Something to do woth wear and tear needed in the star chamber is also a factor.
I have no experience with the .350 Legend, but I experienced feeding issues in my .300 Blackout when using 10 round mags. Didn’t matter if metal mags or Magpul P-Mags.
It's like Winchester management doesn't want to admit they were wrong when they release the "350 Legend" with an actual .355 bullet (not truly a .357) in a case with a 5.56 head rim diameter, when they should have released a 358 Legend based on the 6.8 head case. Now it seems as though they have skipped over the obvious and went with something for the hipsters. The lack of good thick jacketed soft point 40 cal (10mm) bullets in the market, makes it difficult for reloads. I have an old 1873 Winchester that belonged to my great great uncle, chambered in 38-40 and only have about seventy-five 200 grain soft point bullets left for it. For target and plinking I am stuck with cast lead or hollow point.
The 6.8 SPC has the same case head as a 40 Smith & Wesson and a 10 mm and a 357 sig. The 357 sig is a 357 and a 6.8 case head so it is not quite a straight wall cartridge.
I did also have feeding issues from my Wilson combat barrel (new this year).I sent the barrel back and they reemed it back out haven’t had any issues since I’ve gotten back and I use cmmg 350L specific mags. Local gunsmith also recommended enlarging the gas port if I still had feeding issues, since I’ve gotten it back from Wilson I haven’t had any feeding issues. Also keep in mind this cartridge came out it 2019 early guns did have issues but they are coming around My brother also has a 350L (this year used) that was having a similar issue. We got cmmg 350L mags and we also baked (lower heat) his bolt with some grease on it and it solved his issues (bear creek barrel I believe)
My nephew and mine have been fine on reliblty. He has shot more in his than i have mine. He been deer hunting with it since he was 5 or 6 and he's 9 now taken 5 deer with it. I really got mine for hogs and then the hogs moved off. So i have not used it much 1 deer and a hog. Worked fine on the 2.
After installing an enhanced ejector pin and preforming a very mild chamber buff/ polish I've got close to 80 rounds (From 145g to 180g) with Zero failures to feed.
I’ve used .357 Rem. Mag. in a 21” T/C Contender. Great accuracy and hard hitting straight wall cartridge. I reload 180gr. Hornady hp and 170gr. Sierra hp. They usually group 1-1.25” at 100meters
All of my big bores jammed out of the box until I polished the feed ramps. I've since ran dozens of boxes of ammo since through my 350, 450, and 458 without another issue.
In the midwest "flat land" states that recently opened up deer hunting to rifles, cartridge selection is very restricted. The 350 Legend is a great compromise. Since a bullet manufacturer designed the round I have to believe they chose the 9mm dia over the common. 358" dia bullet already available. Possibly a military application like a 9mm round between 350 legend and 9mm Luger? IDK.
I have 2 350 Legends, one an AR and the second an Encore. 0 problems in the AR and 100% reliability (but I built the upper using an Aero Precision XL upper which has an enlarged ejection port for larger straight walled rounds, a Shaw Custom barrel with feed ramp designed for the 350, and CMC mags with the modification already done). Also has an 18" barrel so velocity is a little better, much better with handloads. Found a load with the 165 FTX that shoots 0.259" to 0.5" groups at 50 yards when I do my job right. The Encore has an MGM Custom 20" barrel and a slightly tighter chamber. Can't shoot the same loads as the AR as the pressure gets pretty high. Shoots great groups with 2 grains less of the same powder though. Still a shame I can't use the same load for both. Well, I could I guess if I dropped the charge on the AR but the groups open up a bit. Love the round and in Michigan the majority of deer are shot at 60 yards and under so the Legend is perfect. If your going to shoot farther (150 yards is the limit IMO for this round) the Winchester 150's might be the ticket.
You could get your high speed to see your 350 legend jams and see if something else is the issue. Sounds like some teething the new round still has to go through. I was piqued on 350 legend with the idea to reload cheaper 9mm ammo into used .223 shells for plinking with, until i saw how much longer and heavier the bullets for it are compared to usual 9mm fare. Would be an interesting (memey) video to load up 350 Legend with Lehigh 68 grain extreme defenders and see how (un)speedy, (in)effective, (in)accurate and (un)reliable they are vs Hornady 68 grain BTHP loaded 5.56 rounds.
Something else may definitely be at play. Some bullet styles do better than others. I would love to try something like that out. I would just need to load up very carefully as I’m sure there really isn’t any published data
CMMG mags, a H2 buffer and stay away from the 170 gr Hornady American whitetail (jam city in the AR platform) good in the bolt guns such as the Ruger American or Mossberg. Go to any Winchester or Federal round and wallah. My way any way and it has worked for me. Getting ready to test other ammos. As usual the bolt guns are more accurate overall.
First let's start off with I've been hunting with the 450 BM for over 12 years, started in the AR platform now a Ruger American and being I'm a reloader using a bolt gun a 250gr XTP at 2600fps will drop just about anything out to 250 yards. The problem comes in when you have a young or recoil sensitive shooter, that's where the 350L shines. Not a powerhouse it does match or slightly better a 30/30 and that cartridge has taken more than it's share of whitetails. Second, I do own a Ruger American in 350L, I load it with a either a 147gr FMJ 9mm bullet or one of my 158gr home cast and powder coated 357FP bullets resized to .356" and pushed by a good charge of Unique. Those cast rounds cost about a dime each and for a young person learning to shoot a bucket of ammo and a lot of practice works best, ask any of my 4 grandchildren. Now I'm waiting for a Flightlite AR lever action lower to show up. I have a 18" 350L upper waiting for it. Imagine that lever action AR with 30 rounds of 170gr spitzer ammo on tap or just the practice rounds. There wouldn't be a water filled beer can safe anywhere.
I love your videos. Awesome presentation and awesome hard data/facts. All-around AWESOME content. Stop with the sand, OR . . . . OR . . . .do varying thicknesses of sand. Start at maybe1" or 2" thick and move up to 6". Just an idea. My true purpose today thougj was to reach out to ask if you could find some way to shoot an Ash(type of wood)baseball bat lengthwise? With the bat oriented horizontally with the thick end facing the shooter and the handle fixed hard against something sturdy. I feel like this test should be of centerfire rifle cartridges. As many as possible that bring 1000 ft/lbs of muzzle energy minimum. Don't fart around with .22lr, at least not until the bitter end when all others have been tested and it's like "might as well". Great stuff, keep it up!
I'm an old guy, worn out shoulder joints. I recently fired a 350 legend carbine twice, and that was kinda my limit. I can fire 30-50 rounds of 223 at a trip to the range with less impact on my shoulder and the next couple night's sleep. Yah, I've stepped down in shotgun too. But last time out I hit about 50% of my clays with a 410, so it ain't as bad as it could be. Another reason that wars are mostly fought by younger guys.
The only time I have had jams/malfunctions is with Winchester white box and the mag that came with it before I filed the feed lip. Took it to the range to zero again after getting new scope mount and had 0 jams/malfunctions through about 150 rounds.
I have a 16 inch Faxon barrel shoots the 180gr Winchester accurate but doesn't like the 145 or 150gr no feeding issues with Faxon's feed ramp design. I also have the 20 round dura mags and no feeding issues.
Even if your state doesn't require straight wall, often times there is a minimum caliber requirement. Here in my state it needs to be .25 or larger so 5.56 isn't legal to hunt with. The 350 Legend is just a barrel change rather than barrel, bolt, gas block, carrier, mags, etc.
I got one in 2020 when it was the only cartridge i could find, but I was getting boxes at Walmart for $9.95/20rounds. Wish manufacturers would offer more traditional spitzer/boat tail bullets for it though. This could be a real thumper if done right. I would like to see someone load the 65 grain extreme defender solid copper bullet used in the underwood .380 & .357 sig into a 350 legend case.... If my math is right It would be doing 4200+ fps from a 16" barrel. Just devastating.
I'm considering a 350 legend, 400 legend, or 450 bushmaster for subsonic/suppressed steel smashing. For some reason 350 legend is available in left handed rifles but not 300blk
Formerly shotgun-hunting-only states like Iowa, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois are now allowing you to run and gun with a rifle chambered for straight wall ammo. New straight wall cartridges are now giving hunters in other states with big deer populations like Wisconsin or Maryland even more options for hunting season.Dec 1, 2022
There is a Michigan based rifle manufacturer called Brenton USA that makes an AR style 350 Legend rifle that runs the cartridge flawlessly. Their entire business pretty much started because they thought they could do better than what was currently available.
I think the feed problem is due to the feed ramps on the back of the barrel. I have two BCA 350 legend uppers with the exact same barrel but one is a side charger with one solid feed ramp the other is a rear charger with a M4 style feed ramp and the specs state it has 300 blackout feed ramps. I have run both of these uppers on the same lower with the same 350 Legend magazine, I had absolutely no issues with the solid ramp and I've have had a few issues with the 300 blackout split ramp. Why would you want to try to run a 35 caliber bullet up a 30 caliber ramp? I had a similar problem on a 7.62 x39 AR upper, turning the split ramp into one big ramp fix the problem.
I built my upper out of assorted "AR Stoner" parts (Midway USA budget brand) and had the same feed issues. The barrel extension seemed to have the 30 cal ramps but the receiver still had the little 5.56 pre-ramps. I didn't grind it to a single ramp but there wasn't much of a divider left when I got it working. I've never had to modify any magazines.
If i hunted in an area that required straight walled cases, i would have a .350 Legend for sure. 150 or 180 grain loads for Deer and the heavy subsonic loads for suppressed critter control.
My Ruger AR in 350 is very reliable, more issues with consistency with some of the plinking ammo. Winchester seemed (to me) to have some QC issues early on.
I realize that this video is now almost 16 months old. but the SAAMI specs as of last month (August 2024) state that the proper bore diameter for the 350 Legend is 0.357". I'm not sure if the specs have been amended, but I do remember there being some confusion about bore size when the cartridge was first released.
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How about a comparison of .350 Legend vs. a .357 magnum? More powder in the .350 but what about power vs. the .357 Mag. That would be an interesting video.
The reason they didn’t go with a 358 bore is because they would have to shorten the case which would make it not legal for hunting in restricted hunting zones that require a straight wall cartridge, that’s why the made to the round to begin with so it makes no sense to go a tiny bit bigger for more reloading variety on a ammo that’s already cheap
Thanks for the video! I'm glad that I'm not the only one that thinks that the name of the 350 Legend is really dumb. And, after watching this video, the dumb level went even higher knowing that the bullet diameter is .355, at least from a reloading standpoint. However, the cartridge does intrigue me a bit, enough to make me consider a Ruger Scout Rifle in that caliber.
It would have been helpful (or at least informative) to show us some examples of the "stovepipe" jamming you experienced. Is the thumbnail picture what you are talking about?
I live in Ohio and we have to have straight wall cartridge AND we are limited on how much ammo we can have in a mag well hunting. Is 450 bush better then 350 legend?
How much overhang is there between the barrel extension and the ramp on the lower? If the ramp on the barrel extension is taller than the ramp on the lower receiver, you will most likely have problems with it jamming and leaving marks on the cases.
Another thing to consider is actually the feed ramps of the barrel. Its common knowledge 7.62 does similar in ar profile. Its due to feed ramps m4 or not are for a 5.56 bullet to slide over. So grab a dremel and carefully reduce steep angle and with. Had my 7.62 with issue and feed issues stopped after the change.
@@RichardCranium321 while I agree it wasn't worded as fluently as it could be. Anybody with knowledge of this subject would know exactly what the man meant and would be far far from a foreign language to them..
The Ruger American in 350 Legend is actually amazing. I can use 7.62x whatever and the watermelon looks like a football helmet. Use 350 Legend, well there is nothing left of the watermelon 😅😊
The factory loads for 350 have their issues for sure I hand load mine with 150,158 cast lead from modified lee molds and 160,172,185,200,and 270 gr cast from molds I made as well as 160 gr swaged boolots none of them have the sharp taper on the nose but a more gradually tapering cone and I have no feeding issues and run them from 800 to 2600 fps but I do copper plate and enamel coat them and the recoil is great quit using my 358 winchester in favor of the 350
Don’t have one, but 350 legend ammo was the only thing at our Walmart during the pandemic. The price wasn’t bad either.
Main reason why I wanted 1
They love stocking it
And miejers
that's part of the reason you couldn't find other ammo, resources went into pushing a new caliber n everybody. those primers and cases could have been put into more common rounds, but that didn't drive rifle sales near as well.
@@sinisterthoughts2896 No way, most of the popular calibers have dedicated machines, I'm sure they aren't doing changeovers for calibers they aren't sold out on.
You forgot to mention how 350 legend is probably the best performing ar15 cartridge in short barrels, the combination of straight wall with crazy fast burning powders mean you can get awesome performance out of 10.5" guns, 350 legend absolutely smokes 300 blackout.
Its hard to find a 10.5" barrel.
@@chrissewell1608hacksaw is cheap.... 😂
Bear Creek Arsenal (BCA),BC-15 | 350 Legend | 10.5" Parkerized Heavy Barrel | 1:16 Twist | Pistol Length Gas System. $109.99@@chrissewell1608
@@chrissewell1608BCA has them in a budget offering. For a 10.5 350 legend build, I'm sure the BCA barrel would be just fine.
300bo should be in like a 5.5-6 in barrel not a 10.5…
If you want a big 10.5 barrel that packs a punch then get a 8.6bo.
I found that it wasn't the feed lips causing the jams. If I slowly push the loaded rounds forward, the case mouth was catching on the front of the magazine. Which I believe was causing the round to pop up over the chamber and jam. I took a Dremel and relieved the front of the mag just enough to clear the case mouth, and wow, no more jams.
Apparently there’s 2 ribs in the front of a pmag. If you remove them then 350 legend will run fine. 350 legend is slightly wider and longer if I’m not mistaken. Like the base of 5.56 is .36 and 350 legend is .39 but yeah you need to remove the ribs from the magazine.
Great Vid Didn’t hear you mentioned accuracy @100 between the three.
This is why some lowers come with flared magwells & stuff
Excellent! 🤙 Thanks for sharing the wisdom.
I fixed mine real easy. Different kind of follower in the mag, polished feed ramps a little. That's it haven't had any problems at all.
me too, I find bending the feed lips up *slightly* helped in my stock mag, the first 4 rounds sit funny, but feeds flawless now. thats a standby for old 7.62 mags
also took a felt dremel wheel with polishing compound and hit the bolt face, especially the bottom
helps the end of the round slide smoothly up across the bolt face and align onto the extractor then into battery.
last remove the extractor from the bolt and put the o-ring into your spare parts, it helps with the new stiffness, and believe me mine still hucks the casings 20 feet
Or just get duramags
I’m in Australia we aren’t allowed ar15 but no restrictions on straight wall or length, but I love my 350L bolt action , super easy to shoot next to no recoil and with a can on the end it’s a great sub gun
I handload and find it easier then necked cartridges with projectiles from 90gr to 200gr and 250gr for subs , I think it’s a perfect all rounder , don’t get me wrong there are a lot better calibers if your chasing velocity or energy , but for 99% of hunting over here it’s fantastic
I am in Auz as well, what rifle are you using with the 350L?. What range you getting good results as I love a straight wall but worried it's to specific to ar rifles and US states that require a straight wall
@@bestestusername I’m using ruger go wild great rifle and cheap compared to others , and in real world hunting conditions I’ve shot out to 150m , I’ve never needed to shoot farther then that as I can normally stalk into 75-100m but saying that I think 250-300 would be a max range for clean kill
@@christianborghi7544 Nice, its very true we don't need long range as our scrub can be quick thick. Can't go past a ruger rifle for price and performance.
Really liked the pros and cons episode. Very nice change from other channels! Keep up the good work!👍
I use the .450 Bushmaster. I run 30 rounds mags with the big bore single stack follower, and cut 2 coils out of the spring. I use a Dremel sanding drum to cut a notch in the front of the mag for the larger round. Each mag holds 10 rounds, and feeds pretty damn reliable now.
I’m having a lot of fun playing with my 350Legend AR-15’s, I run them suppressed. I reload my ammunition. Some hiccups in feeding,, I’m working out those kinks. Certainly lots of inexpensive ammo options. Good mags are out there. From Duramag 10rd, 20rd. Ultimately it suppresses well, fits in a small frame AR
I love the 350 Legend, brilliant little cartridge in my opinion. I built two 350 Legend ARs for shooting hogs here in Texas, a 12.5" pistol and 16" rifle. The only time I had any trouble with ammo was using the 145 grain FMJ, all other ammo worked fine. I use C Products Defense/Duramag magazines and mostly shoot the 150 grain Winchester Deer Season XP, but I have used Winchester and Federal 180 grainers without issue as well. Keep your chamber clean, the straight wall case with a slight taper doesn't take as much dirt or sand to mess with chambering. Also, there is another cartridge that I love that uses the same 5.56 bolt, the 300 Ham'r from Wilson Combat, great little round for varmints, deer and hogs. Thanks for the video.
350 won't chamber correctly if it gets slightly dirty? I shot mine rapidly with a 20 round mag. First mag used cycled perfectly without issues, second magazine would jam every 5 to 6 rounds. Was it the magazine or the chamber? 🤔
@@joesashiify I was just saying the slightly tapered straight wall cases like the 350 Legend don't take as much of a dirty or gritty chamber to induce chambering issues as it does with the bottleneck cartridges like 5.56. I have only used C Products Defense/ Duramags and had no issues. Bought a 350 Legend upper from BCA and it was having chambering issues, sent it back and they polished the chamber, no issues since.
I have a Ruger AR and also use only C-products duramags. Early on I had trouble with the original 5 Rd mag and one of the 10 round mags I found local. I found small discrepancies in the height of the front of the mag body in relation to the top surface of the follower. In those 2 mag only. So I relieved them just slightly with a Dremel and a half round needle file. Gun has been 100% reliable since and it's just over 2000 rounds in now. There were small dents at the case mouth of every round that failed to feed very hard to notice but you could feel them with your nail. I have over a dozen 20 rounders and these are all lower in the area I addressed. So I suspect they found this issue early on and addressed it.
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I used it in a Ruger Ranch for 3 yrs now. 3 - 200+lb Bucks, 2 - 200lb + black bears. All under 200yds. The bullet hits like a truck and has amazing expansion. No animal I've shot went more than 10yds. They just dropped. Hitting plates is one thing, dropping animals is another. This is my 42nd year hunting. I've never seen any bullet do this. That is my field report. FYI, my brother dropped 1000lb moose at 120yds this last fall. Never moved, just fell.
How do you move a 1000 lb moose?
@@rob6850 Not easily!
Your brother killed the moose with the 350 Legend? Pretty good. This little sucker punches way above it's weight, IMHO.
Those ruger ranch rifles are SEXY
Which ammo have you been using?
The 350 Legend is still a relatively new cartridge, so I would not fault the magazine makers if an alternate cartridge in a rifle designed for .223 has issues.
I had to do some magazine tuning on my 7.62*39 AR to get it to work properly. I bought C-Products mags which (According to the internet.) are the best for 7.62*39 but still had to grind down the front of the magazine so that the case neck did not catch, flatten the rib at the front of the feed lips so that the rim did not catch and open the front of the feed lips; those mods made my Russian Collusion AR run flawlessly.
Yeah, I had more trouble getting my x39 to run well than my legend. Then I lost them both in a creek ;)
That picture of the .350 S&W Revolver was pretty funny. Gives more credence to the comments calling .350 "9mm Maximum" 😆
Just got my .350 Legend barrel in the mail today. I'm excited to finish the build.
A really big reason i chose the 350 is the efficiency of the cartridge. 2200fps from just a 14" barrel.
That is a good point. I was getting more velocity than the box claimed out of a 16” which I was surprised by.
I really would like to see something in a 10.5 or heck a 7.5 in 350 compared to a 223 of the same length.
@@Johnny-jr2lqI chambered my TC Encore in 350. Mainly cause ammo is plentiful in a state that doesn't have straight wall restrictions. I also just stuck with 16" to avoid SBR tax.
I'm using a BCA 350 Legend upper, Stainless Heavy barrel. I have not had any issues for the first 100 rounds I have run threw it. Between the 145gr and the 180gr. I'm getting sub-MOA with this setup zero at 100 yards. I built this for doing Hog hunting. Now S&W has the 350 Legond in a revolver that looks AWESOME!!! Again after 80 rounds of 145 gr and 20 rounds of 180 gr, I have had no issues jamming. This upper has run Flawlessly.
I also built a 16" in 350L using a BCA upper. It runs flawlessy with everything except the Browning 125 gr. FMJ as those use the round nose bullets and they jam, but everything else runs 100%. I bought 350L specific CMMG mags and have had no issues. It shoots MOA and sub MOA all day at 100 yards.
I saw the S&W 350L x-frame, pretty cool. However, now that the 360 Buck Hammer is out (basically a rimmed version of the 350L), it might make more sense in a revolver.
I have one in the Ruger MPR and so far it has been 100% reliable. It also puts a hurting on deer hogs and coyotes it has some punch. My most used round is Stienel with the maker copper bullet.
My buddy and I share the same gun, we’ve run about 1,000 rounds through it and the only failures we’ve had were on modified mags. Using gen 2 pmags we’ve never had a single failure.
Really like the 350 in my AR. After the magazine upgrades my reliability went 100%. With my ammo choices. Pistol version also reliable with nickel boron bolt carrier 🎉
Have used 350 Legend in a Savage Axis bolt rifle since 2021 for deer hunting in PA (near Pittsburgh where its limited to straight wall and shotgun). 2 does and 1 buck I've shot haven't gone 10 yards. Excellent round and cheapest straight wall option.
This cartridge will reload with.357 also. Winchester designed it for that. Just cut your powder charges back a grain or two to keep pressure at acceptable levels and be very observant of pressure signs. Some have barrels custom chambered barrels with a bore designed for .358 bullets. CMMG mags work the best. The only bullets mine fails to feed 100% are those flat nose 125g xtp hollow points or bullets with the same profile. And even then only the first one of a full stack and not always.
It all depends on the chamber throat. A quick way to check is to take a fired case and see if a .357" bullet will slip in easily. If it doesn't, your gun won't handle the .357" bullets.
@@demsrchildabusers7959 If your rifle can't chamber a .357" projectile and is chambered for .350 legend, it's out of spec. The specification explicitly states that the projectile of .350 legend is between .354" and .357" in diameter, and that there's a throat of between .357" and .3575". The only time I figure that you might find a rifle that can't chamber a .357" projectile is if the projectile was actually oversized, OR if the rifle was made before the SAAMI spec. The .357" came about during the later stages of development due to Ohio having a rule for hunting that a projectile has to be at least .357" in diameter. Winchester got around by saying the projectile has to be .357" with a -.0030" tolerance, thus allowing between .354" and .357", conforming to the requirements of Ohio's hunting laws.
I love my 350legend. I have a variety of hunting loads for it and plan on using it for deer and hogs
Have had some feeding hiccups ( not a ton ) in my 350L build. Thanks for the mag info.
Oldest daughter used it last season to take her first buck ( Mature 11 pointer )
Using the Win XP 150gr BT. I have zero complaints on her shooting nor the effectiveness of the cartridge on game.
I purchased a 350 Legend a couple of years ago. It's in an AREO PRECISION AR platform. Love it. Have not had any feed problems YET.
I’ve never even heard of 350L. But I’ll watch this and hit the like button bc this channel is awesome
You have to have the correct feed ramp and barrel extension for feeding and the early mags needed modified
as a gunsmith, the best possible improvement to feeding issues was to grind out and polish the center area making a single feed ramp into the chamber. this eases the entry angle and reduces the stovepipe problems
.350 is my #1 caliber for hogs and deer in Texas. Kills 100s of hogs a year for me w/o any malfunctions.
35 caliber, ar15 platform, 556 recoil, cheaper ammo - no brained.
I chose the AR upper option as I already have a dedicated lower that I built for hunting so I can swap appropriate upper for my different hunting needs. I use mine for whitetail brush hunting. It’s devastating on deer.And very lite recoil. What I do to help the feeding issues is I’ll use some G 96 oil and after I load the magazine up, I’ll put one littel squirt on the “ neck “ of the round or lack there of. And that really helps the reliability of the feeding. Basically making my own lubed round. I’m hunting in Missouri so I don’t need to worry about the oil freezing up.
I have a 350 Legend AR and I love it.
My CMMG 350 legend with CMMG mags has performed flawlessly through 600 rounds. I’ll call it reliable.
I had the exact same thing happen in 2 ar uppers in 350 legend and if I were to run my Ruger American bolt action fast. Adjusting the feed ramps on the barrel on one of the AR uppers did help but bumping up and out the first front quarter of the feed lips of the mags solved everything. What I found was needing to happen was the shell needed to exit the magazine a touch earlier then for the blackout for 556 simply bc the straight wall design requires it to enter the chamber as straight in as possible. The 556 and 300 blk doesn’t have this issue bc the straight portion of the shell has already passed the feed lips to the point where the shell will pop up and inline with the chamber. This even drastically improved the sluggish feeling of my Ruger American ranch as well.
You had muzzle energy available already. Combine that with the higher momentum and you basically have a round that has superior terminal ballistics, until it doesn't due to low ballistic coefficient and cross sectional density. Inside 100 yards it's straight up superior. Although .300blk 110gr might give it a run for its money.
Excellent video brother. ❤
Keep that Steel swinging. I thought you were due for a video a few days back.
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I got a radical firearms 350 legend. I had jamming issues when I first got it. But the more I used the the less and less it jammed. Now it hardly ever jams. Something to do woth wear and tear needed in the star chamber is also a factor.
So they made the 360 buckhammer for lever guns but why didn't they just make the 350 legend in a lever????
I have no experience with the .350 Legend, but I experienced feeding issues in my .300 Blackout when using 10 round mags. Didn’t matter if metal mags or Magpul P-Mags.
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I appreciate it! Maybe something like that will come of it lol
It's like Winchester management doesn't want to admit they were wrong when they release the "350 Legend" with an actual .355 bullet (not truly a .357) in a case with a 5.56 head rim diameter, when they should have released a 358 Legend based on the 6.8 head case. Now it seems as though they have skipped over the obvious and went with something for the hipsters. The lack of good thick jacketed soft point 40 cal (10mm) bullets in the market, makes it difficult for reloads. I have an old 1873 Winchester that belonged to my great great uncle, chambered in 38-40 and only have about seventy-five 200 grain soft point bullets left for it. For target and plinking I am stuck with cast lead or hollow point.
The 6.8 SPC has the same case head as a 40 Smith & Wesson and a 10 mm and a 357 sig. The 357 sig is a 357 and a 6.8 case head so it is not quite a straight wall cartridge.
I did also have feeding issues from my Wilson combat barrel (new this year).I sent the barrel back and they reemed it back out haven’t had any issues since I’ve gotten back and I use cmmg 350L specific mags. Local gunsmith also recommended enlarging the gas port if I still had feeding issues, since I’ve gotten it back from Wilson I haven’t had any feeding issues. Also keep in mind this cartridge came out it 2019 early guns did have issues but they are coming around
My brother also has a 350L (this year used) that was having a similar issue. We got cmmg 350L mags and we also baked (lower heat) his bolt with some grease on it and it solved his issues (bear creek barrel I believe)
My nephew and mine have been fine on reliblty. He has shot more in his than i have mine.
He been deer hunting with it since he was 5 or 6 and he's 9 now taken 5 deer with it.
I really got mine for hogs and then the hogs moved off. So i have not used it much 1 deer and a hog. Worked fine on the 2.
After installing an enhanced ejector pin and preforming a very mild chamber buff/ polish I've got close to 80 rounds (From 145g to 180g) with Zero failures to feed.
I’ve used .357 Rem. Mag. in a 21” T/C Contender. Great accuracy and hard hitting straight wall cartridge. I reload 180gr. Hornady hp and 170gr. Sierra hp. They usually group 1-1.25” at 100meters
All of my big bores jammed out of the box until I polished the feed ramps. I've since ran dozens of boxes of ammo since through my 350, 450, and 458 without another issue.
In the midwest "flat land" states that recently opened up deer hunting to rifles, cartridge selection is very restricted. The 350 Legend is a great compromise. Since a bullet manufacturer designed the round I have to believe they chose the 9mm dia over the common. 358" dia bullet already available. Possibly a military application like a 9mm round between 350 legend and 9mm Luger? IDK.
I have 2 350 Legends, one an AR and the second an Encore. 0 problems in the AR and 100% reliability (but I built the upper using an Aero Precision XL upper which has an enlarged ejection port for larger straight walled rounds, a Shaw Custom barrel with feed ramp designed for the 350, and CMC mags with the modification already done). Also has an 18" barrel so velocity is a little better, much better with handloads. Found a load with the 165 FTX that shoots 0.259" to 0.5" groups at 50 yards when I do my job right. The Encore has an MGM Custom 20" barrel and a slightly tighter chamber. Can't shoot the same loads as the AR as the pressure gets pretty high. Shoots great groups with 2 grains less of the same powder though. Still a shame I can't use the same load for both. Well, I could I guess if I dropped the charge on the AR but the groups open up a bit. Love the round and in Michigan the majority of deer are shot at 60 yards and under so the Legend is perfect. If your going to shoot farther (150 yards is the limit IMO for this round) the Winchester 150's might be the ticket.
You could get your high speed to see your 350 legend jams and see if something else is the issue. Sounds like some teething the new round still has to go through.
I was piqued on 350 legend with the idea to reload cheaper 9mm ammo into used .223 shells for plinking with, until i saw how much longer and heavier the bullets for it are compared to usual 9mm fare.
Would be an interesting (memey) video to load up 350 Legend with Lehigh 68 grain extreme defenders and see how (un)speedy, (in)effective, (in)accurate and (un)reliable they are vs Hornady 68 grain BTHP loaded 5.56 rounds.
Something else may definitely be at play. Some bullet styles do better than others. I would love to try something like that out. I would just need to load up very carefully as I’m sure there really isn’t any published data
CMMG mags, a H2 buffer and stay away from the 170 gr Hornady American whitetail (jam city in the AR platform) good in the bolt guns such as the Ruger American or Mossberg. Go to any Winchester or Federal round and wallah. My way any way and it has worked for me. Getting ready to test other ammos. As usual the bolt guns are more accurate overall.
Had the same issue…it looks like the bullet profile and length is causing the issue. The Hornady 165gr works well in AR platforms
First let's start off with I've been hunting with the 450 BM for over 12 years, started in the AR platform now a Ruger American and being I'm a reloader using a bolt gun a 250gr XTP at 2600fps will drop just about anything out to 250 yards. The problem comes in when you have a young or recoil sensitive shooter, that's where the 350L shines. Not a powerhouse it does match or slightly better a 30/30 and that cartridge has taken more than it's share of whitetails. Second, I do own a Ruger American in 350L, I load it with a either a 147gr FMJ 9mm bullet or one of my 158gr home cast and powder coated 357FP bullets resized to .356" and pushed by a good charge of Unique. Those cast rounds cost about a dime each and for a young person learning to shoot a bucket of ammo and a lot of practice works best, ask any of my 4 grandchildren. Now I'm waiting for a Flightlite AR lever action lower to show up. I have a 18" 350L upper waiting for it. Imagine that lever action AR with 30 rounds of 170gr spitzer ammo on tap or just the practice rounds. There wouldn't be a water filled beer can safe anywhere.
I have a CVA single shot in .350. No jamming there 😂. Very effective on whitetail
I love your videos. Awesome presentation and awesome hard data/facts. All-around AWESOME content. Stop with the sand, OR . . . . OR . . . .do varying thicknesses of sand. Start at maybe1" or 2" thick and move up to 6". Just an idea. My true purpose today thougj was to reach out to ask if you could find some way to shoot an Ash(type of wood)baseball bat lengthwise? With the bat oriented horizontally with the thick end facing the shooter and the handle fixed hard against something sturdy. I feel like this test should be of centerfire rifle cartridges. As many as possible that bring 1000 ft/lbs of muzzle energy minimum. Don't fart around with .22lr, at least not until the bitter end when all others have been tested and it's like "might as well". Great stuff, keep it up!
Haven't had any feed issues (yet) with my great lakes firearms and ammunition company AR in 350 legend. I run winchester 160gr ammo.
I'm an old guy, worn out shoulder joints. I recently fired a 350 legend carbine twice, and that was kinda my limit. I can fire 30-50 rounds of 223 at a trip to the range with less impact on my shoulder and the next couple night's sleep.
Yah, I've stepped down in shotgun too. But last time out I hit about 50% of my clays with a 410, so it ain't as bad as it could be.
Another reason that wars are mostly fought by younger guys.
The only time I have had jams/malfunctions is with Winchester white box and the mag that came with it before I filed the feed lip.
Took it to the range to zero again after getting new scope mount and had 0 jams/malfunctions through about 150 rounds.
I have a 16 inch Faxon barrel shoots the 180gr Winchester accurate but doesn't like the 145 or 150gr no feeding issues with Faxon's feed ramp design. I also have the 20 round dura mags and no feeding issues.
Even if your state doesn't require straight wall, often times there is a minimum caliber requirement. Here in my state it needs to be .25 or larger so 5.56 isn't legal to hunt with. The 350 Legend is just a barrel change rather than barrel, bolt, gas block, carrier, mags, etc.
If you wanna convert completely.. sure. ARs are so cheap I just built another upper. And on sale got a chameleon BCG for $100~
I got one in 2020 when it was the only cartridge i could find, but I was getting boxes at Walmart for $9.95/20rounds.
Wish manufacturers would offer more traditional spitzer/boat tail bullets for it though. This could be a real thumper if done right. I would like to see someone load the 65 grain extreme defender solid copper bullet used in the underwood .380 & .357 sig into a 350 legend case.... If my math is right It would be doing 4200+ fps from a 16" barrel. Just devastating.
Thank you for the good to know info & video. 👍 💥 😎
I'm considering a 350 legend, 400 legend, or 450 bushmaster for subsonic/suppressed steel smashing. For some reason 350 legend is available in left handed rifles but not 300blk
Formerly shotgun-hunting-only states like Iowa, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois are now allowing you to run and gun with a rifle chambered for straight wall ammo. New straight wall cartridges are now giving hunters in other states with big deer populations like Wisconsin or Maryland even more options for hunting season.Dec 1, 2022
There is a Michigan based rifle manufacturer called Brenton USA that makes an AR style 350 Legend rifle that runs the cartridge flawlessly. Their entire business pretty much started because they thought they could do better than what was currently available.
I haven't had feeding issues with mine, but I use Lancer magazines for it.
I think the feed problem is due to the feed ramps on the back of the barrel. I have two BCA 350 legend uppers with the exact same barrel but one is a side charger with one solid feed ramp the other is a rear charger with a M4 style feed ramp and the specs state it has 300 blackout feed ramps. I have run both of these uppers on the same lower with the same 350 Legend magazine, I had absolutely no issues with the solid ramp and I've have had a few issues with the 300 blackout split ramp. Why would you want to try to run a 35 caliber bullet up a 30 caliber ramp? I had a similar problem on a 7.62 x39 AR upper, turning the split ramp into one big ramp fix the problem.
I built my upper out of assorted "AR Stoner" parts (Midway USA budget brand) and had the same feed issues. The barrel extension seemed to have the 30 cal ramps but the receiver still had the little 5.56 pre-ramps. I didn't grind it to a single ramp but there wasn't much of a divider left when I got it working. I've never had to modify any magazines.
Can you explain where you cut the magazine? Or make a video of it and let me know? Thanks.
If i hunted in an area that required straight walled cases, i would have a .350 Legend for sure. 150 or 180 grain loads for Deer and the heavy subsonic loads for suppressed critter control.
The aero precision upper hasn’t had any function problems yet. It’s not seen a lot of ammo but so far so good. 🤞
I’ve actually not had any issues running my 350 Legend AR. I feel like the stove pipe issue would be a weak buffer spring or buffer
Your videos are great!
Thank you.
My Ruger AR in 350 is very reliable, more issues with consistency with some of the plinking ammo. Winchester seemed (to me) to have some QC issues early on.
I realize that this video is now almost 16 months old. but the SAAMI specs as of last month (August 2024) state that the proper bore diameter for the 350 Legend is 0.357". I'm not sure if the specs have been amended, but I do remember there being some confusion about bore size when the cartridge was first released.
True Midway was my go too. I’ve been slacking that Iam well supplied
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I have two 350 Legend AR's--both are pistol-length. I've shot 400-500 pounds with zero jams. It's a powerhouse.
How about a comparison of .350 Legend vs. a .357 magnum? More powder in the .350 but what about power vs. the .357 Mag. That would be an interesting video.
The reason they didn’t go with a 358 bore is because they would have to shorten the case which would make it not legal for hunting in restricted hunting zones that require a straight wall cartridge, that’s why the made to the round to begin with so it makes no sense to go a tiny bit bigger for more reloading variety on a ammo that’s already cheap
Thanks for the video! I'm glad that I'm not the only one that thinks that the name of the 350 Legend is really dumb. And, after watching this video, the dumb level went even higher knowing that the bullet diameter is .355, at least from a reloading standpoint. However, the cartridge does intrigue me a bit, enough to make me consider a Ruger Scout Rifle in that caliber.
My reason for wanting a rifle in .350 Legend... I want one.
And I want it in a Ruger Mini-14.
It would have been helpful (or at least informative) to show us some examples of the "stovepipe" jamming you experienced. Is the thumbnail picture what you are talking about?
So if you get a well-made barrel, they really rarely jam. What barrel are you using? its generally the bolt being the issue.
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I live in Ohio and we have to have straight wall cartridge AND we are limited on how much ammo we can have in a mag well hunting. Is 450 bush better then 350 legend?
How much overhang is there between the barrel extension and the ramp on the lower? If the ramp on the barrel extension is taller than the ramp on the lower receiver, you will most likely have problems with it jamming and leaving marks on the cases.
Please share a before and after pic of your modified 350 legend magazine. I'm having the same issues.
Another thing to consider is actually the feed ramps of the barrel. Its common knowledge 7.62 does similar in ar profile. Its due to feed ramps m4 or not are for a 5.56 bullet to slide over. So grab a dremel and carefully reduce steep angle and with. Had my 7.62 with issue and feed issues stopped after the change.
Lol .... Was that English?
@@RichardCranium321 while I agree it wasn't worded as fluently as it could be.
Anybody with knowledge of this subject would know exactly what the man meant and would be far far from a foreign language to them..
@@TheRealSwampOperator he's telling you to take a dremel to your feed ramps, caught that much, but it shouldn't b necessary.
Doesn't jam in my rifel & never have. Might Modify your Ar ?
I built my ar in 350 legend. I've never had a jam yet. I put the hybrid46 at the end and its movie quiet. Definitely turns heads at the range.
Your video gave me a great idea on how to make pushing my grandkids on the swing set much more enjoyable...oh wait, maybe that's a bad idea...
The Ruger American in 350 Legend is actually amazing. I can use 7.62x whatever and the watermelon looks like a football helmet. Use 350 Legend, well there is nothing left of the watermelon 😅😊
Makes a great cast bullet cartridge gun.
The 350 legend works well in my Howa bolt action. In my opinion semi-automatic firearms are not "sporting" firearms.
Love your channel man
Where did you find those bench stands? I like how you stacked them. Thanks.
Does a 350 Legend ar-15 require an XL upper receiver to eject rounds reliably?
The factory loads for 350 have their issues for sure I hand load mine with 150,158 cast lead from modified lee molds and 160,172,185,200,and 270 gr cast from molds I made as well as 160 gr swaged boolots none of them have the sharp taper on the nose but a more gradually tapering cone and I have no feeding issues and run them from 800 to 2600 fps but I do copper plate and enamel coat them and the recoil is great quit using my 358 winchester in favor of the 350
.308 and 30.06 cost $34 plus a box now, so I'll take $16 any day. I have a Savage Axis 350 legend, and I love it more than my ar 15
And now you can get almost all bullets that they have for 5.56 for 350 legend
I hope the next cartridge is call “ram’s bottom “ 😅 maybe sheep’s butt 😂
350 legend is ideal for straight wall restricted states. Other than that 6.5 Grendel for the AR win.
I've not heard of the buck hammer jeez they need to get the marketing team to come up with better names
I had same jamming problem, got a Wilson combat 20 rd mag and Wilson combat AR lube. Lubed feed ramp heavily hasn’t jammed since…
I’ll have to try that out. The faxon barrel I’m using has a big bore style barrel extension, so I think the lube would definitely help.
You could use a 444 marlin at 60 bucks a box of 20 . if you can find them .350 legend doesn't sound bad
3:03 can you use a regular 20 rnd steel mag for 350s or do you have to buy a special mag for it?
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Helpful info, thanks