Bear Creek Arsenal 350 Legend 16" 10rd M-LOK Rifle

350 Legend was Winchester's answer to a regulatory problem: several states allow straight wall cartridges for deer but not bottleneck rounds, and hunters there needed something better than a slug gun. The cartridge throws a .357 diameter bullet with mild recoil and flat enough trajectory to be honest out to a couple hundred yards. Bear Creek Arsenal chambered this rifle for it and hung it on a 16 inch barrel, which keeps the gun short in a blind and light on a long walk.

One 10 round detachable magazine comes with the rifle, and the handguard is slotted for M-LOK so a sling mount, bipod or light bolts on where it makes sense instead of where a fixed rail dictates. That is most of what a straight wall deer rifle needs, and the rest is left open for the owner to spec. 350 Legend also has practical advantages beyond the regulations: ammunition is widely stocked, recoil is soft enough that new hunters do not flinch, and the short action length keeps the whole rifle compact. Sight the optic in at a hundred yards and it will handle just about every shot a woods hunter takes.