Bear Creek Arsenal 400 Legend 18" 10rd M-LOK Rifle

Bear Creek Arsenal chambered this rifle in 400 Legend, the straight wall cartridge Winchester built around a .40 caliber bullet for hunters in states that restrict bottleneck rounds for deer. The 18 inch barrel suits that job, short enough to carry through timber all day and long enough to let the cartridge do its work. Feeding is handled by a detachable box magazine, and one 10 round magazine comes with the rifle, which covers both range sessions and most of a season.

The handguard is slotted for M-LOK, so a bipod, sling mount, hand stop or light attaches exactly where you want it instead of where a fixed rail decides. On a hunting rifle that usually means a sling up front and little else, but the option is there when the gun moves to the bench. Straight wall chamberings like 400 Legend have carved out a real niche in the Midwest and the Northeast, where regulations push shooters away from the usual bottleneck cartridges and toward a heavy bullet moving at moderate speed. Recoil stays civil, brass is easy to find, and inside a couple hundred yards the terminal performance is more than enough for whitetail.