mongoslow
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Ruger MPR 350 legend...yeah a 350 but why ?
Simple it's light and handy, I have 5,10, and 20 round mags for it, and it works for me out of a blind or woods walking.
Power wise think 30-30, .35 . Both have harvested every game animal and predator in North America for over a century so that power envelope is good enough.
Now I don't live in a straight wall restricted state, I live in Alabama so I can shoot whatever I want to but this thing just fit everything I need it to do, heck I have over 2/3 of the power of the 308 for about 1/3 of the recoil so I'm not worried about an anticipated flinch on pulling the trigger, also the MPR is lighter than my Savage 99 in 30-30 by a few pounds ( my 99 is a breakdown model made in 1927) and I don't have to worry about getting my Savage wet and dirty banging it around in the woods
For ammo I've settled on 3 loads 160 Winchester bonded and 165 ftx hornady for dear and a hornady 170 grain interlock if I get a chance to chase pigs down in bibb County swamps.
All in all I'm pretty tickled with the MPR so far , I topped it off with a Sig 2.5-7 x 32 scope which is plenty for the places I have to hunt with sight distances from about 30 yards out to maybe 150 yards.
Just wondering if anyone else chose the 350 because they wanted to and not because of limited options they are allowed to use.
Here is the obligatory picture
Simple it's light and handy, I have 5,10, and 20 round mags for it, and it works for me out of a blind or woods walking.
Power wise think 30-30, .35 . Both have harvested every game animal and predator in North America for over a century so that power envelope is good enough.
Now I don't live in a straight wall restricted state, I live in Alabama so I can shoot whatever I want to but this thing just fit everything I need it to do, heck I have over 2/3 of the power of the 308 for about 1/3 of the recoil so I'm not worried about an anticipated flinch on pulling the trigger, also the MPR is lighter than my Savage 99 in 30-30 by a few pounds ( my 99 is a breakdown model made in 1927) and I don't have to worry about getting my Savage wet and dirty banging it around in the woods
For ammo I've settled on 3 loads 160 Winchester bonded and 165 ftx hornady for dear and a hornady 170 grain interlock if I get a chance to chase pigs down in bibb County swamps.
All in all I'm pretty tickled with the MPR so far , I topped it off with a Sig 2.5-7 x 32 scope which is plenty for the places I have to hunt with sight distances from about 30 yards out to maybe 150 yards.
Just wondering if anyone else chose the 350 because they wanted to and not because of limited options they are allowed to use.
Here is the obligatory picture