Another new cartridge.....

[Jdcujo]

400 Legend: Field Testing Winchester's New Straightwall Cartridge

Winchester announced the 400 Legend, a hard-hitting straightwall cartridge that's a step up from the 350 Legend.

www.outdoorlife.com

I'm not even sure how to feel on this one.

 

[Mullet Hunter]

I like it better than a 350 looks to be better than any of the newer production straight wall rounds.

 

[Jester896]

straight wallers

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

10mm magnum?

 

[ABlaster]

I think gun/cartridge innovation has stagnated a bit. A lot of the “new stuff” feels forced.

 

[Baddog 0302]

Now , lets see if Winchester brings out a new rifle or partners with Ruger , Rem. Ect. to bring out rifles configured for the .422 case head .
ABlaster , "forced" ? not nearly as big a market as in the early days of PRS when Hornady was pushing their new Creedmoor rounds by offering ammo to the top shooters and one TV host on a cable show.

 

[Fear21]

I think gun/cartridge innovation has stagnated a bit. A lot of the “new stuff” feels forced.

Or just rehashes of old cartridge designs given a new name.

 

[jettjon]

400 Legend: Field Testing Winchester's New Straightwall Cartridge

Winchester announced the 400 Legend, a hard-hitting straightwall cartridge that's a step up from the 350 Legend.

www.outdoorlife.com

I'm not even sure how to feel on this one.

I read the article - just as I suspected, a solution in search of a (government mandated) problem:

"These newly-designated straight-wall and primitive-cartridge states have long restricted the use of bottlenecked high-velocity rounds for big-game hunting, deeming them unsafe due to the potential for those high-velocity projectiles to travel far beyond their intended target. Whether these restrictions are unnecessary or sound reasoning, they are what they are and they have, for decades, reduced deer hunters to carrying shotguns and shooting slugs."

 

[M118LR]

.Guess the .44 Mag popularity is dropping. Otherwise the 265 Hornady 444 Marlin load should have been more than adequate to fill this niche. But since 40 is the new darling guess Winchester found a way to make the Old New. Yet Black Rifles seem to be replacing Lever Actions in the field nowadays. I just wonder how long any of the Legends are actually going to last?

 

[Psycho 16]

.Guess the .44 Mag popularity is dropping. Otherwise the 265 Hornady 444 Marlin load should have been more than adequate to fill this niche. But since 40 is the new darling guess Winchester found a way to make the Old New. Yet Black Rifles seem to be replacing Lever Actions in the field nowadays. I just wonder how long any of the Legends are actually going to last?

Agreed

 

[.22 cents]

Does it make the deer more dead than other cartridges?

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Again, more cartridges that don't follow standard made bullets. Should have been a .401 bullet just like the 350 should have been 357. Ymmv

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Does it make the deer more dead than other cartridges?

Blows both lungs out!!

 

[M118LR]

Does it make the deer more dead than other cartridges?

That might depend on how big the critter being shot is, and how fast it dies.

 

[DustyDog]

Does it make the deer more dead than other cartridges?

Probably not. Walmart will carry it, so it can't be as dangerous as the 9mm lung-removers that they quit selling for that very reason : )

 

[FLT]

Odd ball size bullets are a turn off for me.

 

[ccc]

Ahhhhhhh the new “New” “NEW” cartridge of the month that everyone just HAS TO HAVE because it kills soooooooooooooo much better than the last NEW cartridge of the month. While I just sit here on my .556, .9mm, .243, 30.06, .38, .357, .12 gauge, 30.30, you know all those old useless has been calibers that I could never depend on to put food on the table or defend my family with. I really should get with the times.

 

[jettjon]

Ahhhhhhh the new “New” “NEW” cartridge of the month that everyone just HAS TO HAVE because it kills soooooooooooooo much better than the last NEW cartridge of the month. While I just sit here on my .556, .9mm, .243, 30.06, .38, .357, .12 gauge, 30.30, you know all those old useless has been calibers that I could never depend on to put food on the table or defend my family with. I really should get with the times.

Ain't Free Market Capitalism grand? I don't NEED a carbon fiber free flow graphite infused turbo encabulator, but I just found out about them and GOSH DARN IT I NEED ONE!

 

[FLT]

New and unavailable, makes folks want one!

 

[Fodderwing]

10mm magnum?

10mm Rigby