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[Rockydoc]

Ruger American 350 Legend

CW

CW, I put one of those slip on cheek piece height adjusters like yours on my Ruger#1. I'll never do that again! It works great after I got it on but getting it on was a bear. Was yours hard to get on? I guess it will vary with the butt stock dimensions but mine was difficult to get on.

How does the 350 Legend compare to 35 Remington ballistically?

 

[Tomme boy]

kind of aggravated me.
I'm still holding out hope that I might be able to 'straighten out' a few cases and give them a go in the maximum revolver.
just ain't seen any empties laying around the range to play with yet.

send me your shipping info. I have 1x fired nickel cases already sized and crimp swaged. Have not checked the trim length on them yet. I think like 5-6 of them. I have had them for a little bit but have not got back to them. Or I can send you some new win cases.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

CW, I put one of those slip on cheek piece height adjusters like yours on my Ruger#1. I'll never do that again! It works great after I got it on but getting it on was a bear. Was yours hard to get on? I guess it will vary with the butt stock dimensions but mine was difficult to get on.

How does the 350 Legend compare to 35 Remington ballistically?

Its actually pretty close! I have hit 2400 with a 150g & the 35 rem was advertised as same. Of coarse the 35Rem uses "real" 35 bullets.

The butt cuff goes on front ta back before the scope. Easy peasy.

Its only Difficult if ya try to mount butt first Never go butt first.

CW

 

[fiver]

thank's Tomme.
I just need a few to see what I can do with them.
if it's a go that'd save me some money, if not [shrug]

 

[Ian]

The butt cuff goes on front ta back before the scope. Easy peasy.

Bingo! Or take the buttstock off the action if it's easier than demounting a scope that's already there.

 

[fiver]

chance to skim bed the stock in some better too.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

chance to skim bed the stock in some better too.

These Ruger stocks are flimsy. Not as bad as some Savage but not at all solid.
But they have a dual bedding block sustem that has four points if contact and usually are very very solid. I do find a slight POI change when removing and re installing. But if ya torque the stock bolts its quite minimal.
I re stocked my 300 BO into a Boyds and used new steel blocks as well as pillars. (Not really a benefit as the front is about 1/8" and rear less then 1/2" but offers solid repeatable screw torque. This gun does NOT see appreciable impact shifts with removing and re-installing. I did bed in front of front luggs and rear at the tang but largely just to fill gaps and better support front luggs.
CW

 

[Rockydoc]

Its actually pretty close! I have hit 2400 with a 150g & the 35 rem was advertised as same. Of coarse the 35Rem uses "real" 35 bullets.

The butt cuff goes on front ta back before the scope. Easy peasy.

Its only Difficult if ya try to mount butt first Never go butt first.

CW

The instructions described going on butt first. That's like butting your head against a brick wall.

 

[Rick H]

I'm of the opinion that all who design things and write instructions for using them should be forced to do it themselves before they bring something to market. That goes for automotive engineers too. Make them change spark plugs.

Warning Thread drift:
Had a friend who needed to change the wires rotor and distributor cap on his daughter's Buick Sommerset. It had the old GM iron duke 4 cyl engine mounted sideways. the distributor was shoved under the firewall heater box (one piece) with enough clearance to change wires but not lift the distributor cap over the rotor. The recommended solution from GM was to drop one half of the front suspension/transaxle while the body was jacked up. We were really anxious to see the brain surgeon who made that design decision demonstrate his technique while we put our boots where they would do the most good.

 

[popper]

Or changing the oil filter on the quad 4 version. Sideways 6 you get an inch of clearance to change water pump. Hey just gets extra book time for the shop.

 

[Ian]

I could do this all day. Suffice to say automotive engineering is as broken as the rest of everything in the world.

 

[RicinYakima]

You guys just don't understand: you are suppose to trade it in for 10 cents on the dollar and buy a new car.

 

[RBHarter]

In 1943 North American Aircraft left a sight hole in the airframe so one could see to line up the castlated nut , hole in the bolt and get the cotter key in place . By 1948 Beech had it fixed up to a point where things that should have been flip parts were left and right . Forget being able to see what you're screwing together .

I figure an engineer caught his wife in bed with a mech or a carpenter sometime in late 45' or early 46' and there's been the devil to pay ever since .

 

[CZ93X62]

Text and photo moved to OTHER (New Rifle Day) thread where it belongs. Management on my end is a bit lacking today. Sorry about that

 

[Ian]

Improvements over the T3 include a steel bolt shroud (instead of plastic), steel recoil block (instead of aluminum), enlarged ejection port to allow easier single-cartridge loading, and a thing or two else I forget. Hope yours is as slick and boringly accurate as mine is.

 

[Tomme boy]

Went shooting for a while today. Brought some 180gr taco bullets loaded with 2400. I must have grabbed the wrong brass to load these. I had some cases that I needed to run through the 9mm die because of the large chamber in the AR15 I shot these in. The FL die does not size them down far enough to the web.

But I did have a couple other loads to test. No pics as it was too dark and people were still blasting away. But I tried some light loads just because. The first one was a 135gr fp loaded with 9gr Unique. They were running at 1519fps avg. They were minute of paper plate at 100yds.

Then I had 200gr Mihec RCBS clone HP loaded with 7gr of unique. They were running at 1064fps. They shot about 1.5" for 10 shots. They had about 14 or so inches of drop over where the gun was sighted in. These had a ES of 81 so not that consistent.

The winner of the day was the factory 145gr TC bullet. 2248fps ES 64. But was able to put 10 rounds into 3/4". That surprised me as everyone said these are just junk range fodder. I probably bought the only box that would ever do this and none of the others would. I got 20 boxes of this left that I had been buying before the crazy's started to buy everything up. I bought it for the brass.

Anyway, ALL of my brass has been gone through tonite. I chambered every single piece to see what needed to be sized in the 9mm die. And then I trimmed them all to length. I had one case head separation in the 9mm Lee die. That was fun getting that out! It was stuck above the carbide ring. That piece has been loaded 6 times and had a primer pocket that was still good for a bolt gun but not a Semiauto.

Going to start on the 165gr Hornady bullet now. Deer opens first week of Dec. I have 200 pieces of new brass that will be loaded just for deer season. Don't want to risk a case head separation on me.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Those 145's that I did shoot shot accurately. But about the time I was begining to be impressed I had a case head separation then a couple hard bolt lifts and stopped shooting them. The case lengths where all over the map. (Old news) I pull, trim and reload them now using factory powder and a re sized 140 FTX. THEY SHOOT VERY WELL.

WITH the SCR problems I grabbed a couple boxes of factory 180 and 145. As I knew It would be asked what FACTORY had I used... I carefully measured these factroy roybds not wanting to risk me ir my guns with CRAP ammo! But all was found to be MUCH IMPROVED! Pulled bullets showed LESS POWDER as well! Velocity had also dropped nearly 100fps from those first problem loads.

Neither shot worth a hoot, BUT I now know and confirmed that it was THE BARREL. As a new barrel AND MY RUGER BOLT shoots both well!

Sorry for the sizing issues there Tommy! Just buy a proper sizer/set!!! But of coarse it wouldn't have stoped the separation! I have many cases past 7/8 firings. Starting to loose more because of that bad FAXON bbl. But thats behind me now.

Those MP 220HP are GREAT shooters dor me as well!! I have that mold waiting for my knee to heal so I can cast MORE!!!

CW

 

[Tomme boy]

I do have a 350 FL sizer, these are cases that had a little case head expansion. And the FL die would not go far enough to size the area right at the web. The 9mm die does. But I know these cases will not last very long now.

I got plenty of new brass I just don't want to use it yet.

 

[Tomme boy]

Shot some more loads today but chrono was not liking the time of day. It was not registering any of the shots after 2 loads were shot. Just ran out of daylight.

But, interesting results with the 165gr FTX bullets. 2346 avg with H110 at 25.0 gr ES was 50fps. The best shot group was with 25.9 gr but did not get the #'s. Right at 1.25"

Then tried a couple with LILgun and no #'s at all for these. 25.5gr shot right at 1". 25.9gr shot right at 1.15". I am going to load some more of these to see what the #'s are. Bolt worked flawlessly opening and closing. I just have to make it to the range a little earlier.

On a even better note, today must have been a day everyone was sighting in their hunting rifles. I got 46 350 L cases, 15 450 Bushmaster. 27 6.5 Creedmoor. 14 243 Win, 3 22-250.

Pretty happy overall. I am going to switch out scopes after I run some more of the Lilgun loads to check vel. Right now I have a 6-20x50 Vortex viper. This is the scope I use for load workups. I have a 1-6x24 AR scope. I need to get it on and check the drops compared to the scope has marks. it has the 556 bullet drop hash marks. It is actually the same glass quality as the Vortex. That will be a better match for the gun for hunting.