.350 Legend AR reduced loads

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Has anyone who owns an AR chambered in .350 Legend played around with any reduced loadings? As in 9mm handgun bullets for plinking? If so, does your AR feed and cycle reliably?
I don’t have an upper for this (yet) but I can see how this would be useful round for hunting, SD and possibly suppressing. 9mm components are plentiful, so reloading should be fairly cheap.
Some 115-124 grain hp pushed up a little would seem to be amazing critter control rounds, skunks, possums and what not. Maybe even for prairie dogs at moderate distances.

Please share if you have any information on this. Help me make up my mind.
 

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Has anyone who owns an AR chambered in .350 Legend played around with any reduced loadings? As in 9mm handgun bullets for plinking? If so, does your AR feed and cycle reliably?
I don’t have an upper for this (yet) but I can see how this would be useful round for hunting, SD and possibly suppressing. 9mm components are plentiful, so reloading should be fairly cheap.
Some 115-124 grain hp pushed up a little would seem to be amazing critter control rounds, skunks, possums and what not. Maybe even for prairie dogs at moderate distances.

Please share if you have any information on this. Help me make up my mind.

Pretty sure the 350L uses a .357 diameter bullet, and not a .355 (9mm). Might be doable, but I'm guessing accuracy will stink.

Someone with actual experience may be on here though to weigh in as I'm only vaguely familiar with the cartridge on paper.
 

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You should have no trouble getting the lighter 9mm bullets to function if you push them to 1800 fps. My Legend has been surprising in both function and accuracy with a wide variety of loads.
 

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