Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting The New Win .350 Legend.

Other than the obvious Random Bastard Thought dart board method, what criteria have they used to approve or disapprove cartridges out there?

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Pistol cartridge rifle

I don’t really know except the approved, straight-walled cartridges are generally ballistically similar to a generic muzzleloader load. There, I guess I do know after a fashion. Just speaking about Iowa, most deer hunting is in relatively small, timbered parcels often involving fairly high hunter densities, so the rationale is “short range” cartridges are the safest. Thus you have cartridges like the 45/70, the 444 Marlin, the 450 Bushmaster, the 44 mag, 45 Colt, and a host of others including now the new 350 Legend (which I’m sure will be added to the list) becoming legal. Actually there are case-length minimums and maximums as part of the criteria.

Going to those kinds of centerfire cartridges also attracts another group of hunters to deer hunting — those like me who don’t care to juggle all the components of a charcoal-burner or hunt with a shotgun using slugs.

The southern tier of counties with many more timbered draws and woodlots than the northern parts of the state, and thus far more deer, does have more liberal centerfire cartridge regulations for the very late, “extra doe” season to better control the deer numbers.

Well, it’s out. For the “straight-wall” states (and others), Ruger will chamber it in the Ruger American Ranch model.

The dealer that started the .450 American run has the new .350s now. Randys video

Oh goody, another cheap plastic gun.

The people who just want to hunt will buy stuff like this, and that's fine. If I were stuck hunting in a restricted zone like that, I'd buy or cobble together something that fit the rules, and also my notions of something nice, maybe one of the Number 1s or a levergun, or re-bored Henry SS. Thankfully, we're pretty wide open here; any centerfire, bows, xbows, handguns .357 and up, plus ML and a four-day Mountaineer Heritage season where only stick-bows and sidelock MLs are legal. I can hunt deer from the end of September until December 31 with something and then with my Renegade or recurve in January. I really feel for folks who have to try and draw just to hunt deer.

"We received the first 500 of these rifles and they are ready for their new forever home."

LOL. That wording cracked me up.

Chick lingo.

Would love to see it this year in a quality lever-gun.

There are no quality lever guns made anymore.