.350 legend anybody loading for it?

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horsemen61

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Howdy everyone!

So I just started today I loaded my first 20 .350 legend rounds I gotta say it’s a bit more in depth than say your standard bottleneck rifle cartridges, you need a separate expander die so 3 dies bare minimum once you get your dies setup it’s a piece of cake!

can’t wait to see how these do out of my MSR
 
I have the components and dies but haven't made any rounds yet, hopefully Friday. Let us know what you loaded and how it went.

It sounds like the trim length is really important but I don't recall it being an issue with other straight wall cases that head space on the case month. Once set they don't seem to grow but this being a higher pressure round might be differnet.
 
Horsemen61, I don't know how to post a link to another thread so I just posted below. Would love to hear how you experience is going, has not been as much chatter around this caliber as I originally thought there would be, seems to be one of the better reloaders rounds.

I checked my first attempt at subsonic 180gr XTP in the 350 legend. I resized these to 0.356 for this test. Trail Boss is the only powder I had on hand that I felt comfortable testing. Using an OAL of 2.195 with Hornady brass. I started with 7.0 gr Trail Boss about 80% case fill. Avg. velocity was 816fps with extreme spread of 111fps. Accuracy was very poor @ 2.2" 50 yards.

I will up the powder charge to 7.8gr about 90% case fill and see how accuracy looks. I will look for TinStar as well but need to get idea where to start first.

I then tried 170gr Hornady Interlock bullets, these did much better. I used H110 with an OAL of 2.225", all I had was federal AR small rifle primers so that is what I used, winchester brass.

25gr H110 - around 2100 to 2200fps, I accidentally deleted the data from my chronograph. Accuracy was okay with a 3 shot group of 0.88" @ 50 yards.

25.5gr H110 - Avg. 2218fps, ES 100fps, 1.28" group @ 50 yards (2 touching 1 flyer)

26gr H110 - Avg. 2223fps, ES 71.4fps, 0.62" group @ 50 yes (cluster group)

26.5gr H110 - Avg. 2339fps, ES 118fps, 0.60" group @ 50 yds ( vertical group).
 
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