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<blockquote data-quote="Rifleman97" data-source="post: 2357841" data-attributes="member: 103996"><p>My nephew uses an AR version, jams pretty often. My brother and I both have bolt guns, I've got a Winchester XPR and he's got a ruger something or other bolt 350. His ruger had 2 light firing pin strikes this morning, one causing him to lose his shot at a 10 point. I haven't had a single issue with my xpr itself, but I had a couple misfires due to bad primers at -20° last winter (when I was testing specifically for that, not hunting). I finally got all the stuff to start hand loading for 350 2 weeks ago and I use small magnum rifle primers instead of small rifle, and they have never misfired even when I put the rounds in the deep freezer just for testing for that.</p><p></p><p>I LOVE my XPR. 350 legend is a great round too but I think it needs small magnum primers to be reliable in extreme cold. My brothers ruger I think needs a firing pin spring adjustment since it's not the first light primer strike he's had. That's not a 350 issue though, more of a ruger quality control issue.</p><p></p><p>I imagine in the AR form it would be more reliable with handloads since you can load them a tad hotter than factory ammo to be more reliable, and more consistent round to round if you load for precision like I do. </p><p></p><p></p><p>The load I used is 25.9 grains of Lil Gun, small magnum rifle primer, hornady 165gr FTX, COAL is 2.260 (max SAAMI length) but I haven't played with the load very much yet, basically just developed one that shot a good enough group at 100 and told myself I wouldn't shoot any further than 150 because I don't have a clue what velocity it's running at. But at those ranges it's good enough it doesn't really matter.</p><p></p><p>My favorite part is the 350 is a lot quieter than a slug gun, as long as I'm wearing a hat that covers my ears, my ears don't ring after shooting like they did with shotgun slug hunting.</p><p></p><p>Let me know any other questions you have I'll do my best to answer</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rifleman97, post: 2357841, member: 103996"] My nephew uses an AR version, jams pretty often. My brother and I both have bolt guns, I’ve got a Winchester XPR and he’s got a ruger something or other bolt 350. His ruger had 2 light firing pin strikes this morning, one causing him to lose his shot at a 10 point. I haven’t had a single issue with my xpr itself, but I had a couple misfires due to bad primers at -20° last winter (when I was testing specifically for that, not hunting). I finally got all the stuff to start hand loading for 350 2 weeks ago and I use small magnum rifle primers instead of small rifle, and they have never misfired even when I put the rounds in the deep freezer just for testing for that. I LOVE my XPR. 350 legend is a great round too but I think it needs small magnum primers to be reliable in extreme cold. My brothers ruger I think needs a firing pin spring adjustment since it’s not the first light primer strike he’s had. That’s not a 350 issue though, more of a ruger quality control issue. I imagine in the AR form it would be more reliable with handloads since you can load them a tad hotter than factory ammo to be more reliable, and more consistent round to round if you load for precision like I do. The load I used is 25.9 grains of Lil Gun, small magnum rifle primer, hornady 165gr FTX, COAL is 2.260 (max SAAMI length) but I haven’t played with the load very much yet, basically just developed one that shot a good enough group at 100 and told myself I wouldn’t shoot any further than 150 because I don’t have a clue what velocity it’s running at. But at those ranges it’s good enough it doesn’t really matter. My favorite part is the 350 is a lot quieter than a slug gun, as long as I’m wearing a hat that covers my ears, my ears don’t ring after shooting like they did with shotgun slug hunting. Let me know any other questions you have I’ll do my best to answer [/QUOTE]
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