.350 Legend vs .360 Buckhammer

Brad Fitzpatrick

In 2019 Winchester released the .350 Legend, but many hunters and shooters were perplexed. Why did Winchester’s new cartridge offer up relatively anemic ballistics? The Legend could barely muster .30-30 Win. energy levels, and it appeared at the height of long-range shooting craze. I understood the reasoning behind the Legend because I’m from Ohio, and those of us in our 40s who grew up in that state spent our formative years chasing deer with hard-kicking, punkin’ ball-chuckin’ slug guns. In 2014 straight-wall cartridges like the .45-70 and .444 Marlin were made legal for hunting deer in the Buckeye State, but those big boomers shot only a little flatter and recoiled slightly less than our six-pound pump slug guns. The .350 Legend delivered us from the annual thrashing those slug guns doled out…

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