New Cartridge from Winchester

[Shakey Jake]

So, who is making rifles in this new cartridge besides Winchester?

[JEBar]

So, who is making rifles in this new cartridge besides Winchester?

no clue .... IF Henry was to start producing them and IF Starline started producing brass for them, I'd have to take a close look

given that since it fires a 357 bullet and most manufactures are already producing barrels that fire bullets that size, it shouldn't take a major retooling .... I suspect that a manufacture could bring rifles to market for a relatively small investment

[Mistered]

So, who is making rifles in this new cartridge besides Winchester?

This will be the ‘crap shoot’ for other manufacturers.
Most will probably watch carefully how the market reacts to it before committing to production - and that could be awhile.

[Ojaileveraction]

I think they are looking for a younger crowd with this cartridge.
AR, Blackout 300, suppressed, ported, no wood types.
A 223 type auto rifle change the barrel boom, boom.
I know very little about that.

[fortyshooter]

Yes that would be a great lever and BFR revolver cartridge!!

[TNman]

Yes it is a natural for a handy whitetail lever rifle and that would be the most desirable platform IMO....a Henry, 94, or 336 would be very nice...

[Mistered]

I did some reading up on this round tonight.
It's based on a blown out .223 case which tells me adaptability in an AR platform was probably A consideration during development.
Because it's rimless it's doubtful a level action will be made for it but it would shine in a SS rifle.
Basically an 'improved' .357 Magnum round.

[BigAl52]

Case is slightly longer than the 357 maximum. I read the built of the 223 case and its rimless. Still the max has a small following and I wonder how popular this will be.

[Mistered]

and I wonder how popular this will be.

Probably not unlike any other 'new' cartridge introduced in say the last 30 years or less - limited to possibly nearly obsolescent in a few years.
Most popular cartridges of today are so because when they were introduced there was essentially nothing like them at the time and they were pretty dramatic improvements over what was currently being used so they're popularity increased and they became the 'standards' of today and almost everyone 'has one' now. Examples would be .357 Mag, 30-30, 30- '06 etc.
Unfortunately most new cartridges are really just variations of something similar and already available and in use and typically don't offer that great of an improvement as to influence one into buying a rifle in the new caliber.
A couple examples of short lived 'new' cartridges are the various Winchester Short Magnums, .375 Winchester. .327 Magnum and the list is long.

[North Country Gal]

Did some reading up on the 350 Legend, too. Seems to have the AR platform crowd all abuzz, for sure, but the reaction I'm seeing from the lever gun and traditional crowd has been much more cautious and muted. If the AR folks like it, though, it has a chance of making it. For me, personally, though, it does nothing that a whole basket of traditional cartridges can't do at least as well or better. Have no plans to have a custom Contender barrel made in the 350 Legend, in other words.