35 Caliber Cartridges Popularity?

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Picture taken at 9,800’ last October on a public land mule deer hunt close to home. Rifle is a 1959 Marlin in .35 Remington given to my by my Uncle and hunting mentor. I’m not planning on elk hunting with it anytime soon due to limited range, but this may be my go to mountain mule deer gun with the 1-4X Leupold.

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I’m not too into bottleneck cartridges. I only own rifles in two different bottleneck rounds presently. 223 and 35 Rem. The only other 35 I may own would be a 350 Legend (another straightwall).

Larger bore bottlenecks have started to appeal to me recently and the 35s have been first on the thought list. Might just do the thing right and go straight to the 4s though.
 
earlthegoat2 said:
I’m not too into bottleneck cartridges. I only own rifles in two different bottleneck rounds presently. 223 and 35 Rem. The only other 35 I may own would be a 350 Legend (another straightwall).

Larger bore bottlenecks have started to appeal to me recently and the 35s have been first on the thought list. Might just do the thing right and go straight to the 4s though.
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The Whelen makes a great range toy. Shooting soft targets like fruit, water jugs, etcs make for huge smiles.
158 xtps barely hold together at 3000+ fps. ;)
 
I guess I have about a dozen or so 358 caliber rifles and have never felt under gunned carrying one. Plus every N.A. game animal I have ever shot with one has been DRT. I also own about a dozen or so 30s but there is nothing magic about them, a poorly placed shot gives a shooter a fine mess, just about every time. I have been asked to help track too many 30 cal wounded critters, shot by others. These favorite caliber deals always come down to how well you can shoot, not the bullet.

I live in FL, own a farm, we have very small deer, but very big hogs and black bears. I prefer my two 358 MGPs (6.8 necked up) in my AR-15s over any 270 or 30 caliber in the AR-15, to hunt hogs with. I do not carry an AR-10, they are too heavy. Not all wild game is the same and when things get up close and personal, I like a fast handling rifle, with a larger than 30 caliber in diameter bullet, plus a 10 round mag to anchor dangerous critters that have a habit of not doing anything as expected or in accordance with books or magazines by “experts”. Wild Boar hogs just do not ever seem to know when they are already dead.

There is nothing quite like shooting a 450# hog, have it go down, walk up closer to it to make sure it is dead and have it stand up. Remember what I said, because a wounded boar hog or one that is just tired of the chase game, will try to kill you. They are very good at ambush from like 10’ behind without you ever hearing or seeing them go around you.

You do not need to go to Africa to have something try to kill you, in the south you can just go into the back yard.
 
I have dad's 50s 336 in 35 rem. I have only shot a couple hogs with it, but it had plenty of terminal effectiveness. I am comfy shooting at game with it to 150 yards. Will probably use it for bear this year as my deer tag is for muzzleloader season.
 
WisBorn said:
I have never owned a .35 caliber rifle, but have always thought that they would cover 90+% of my big game hunting.

With cartridges like:
35 Whelen
35 Remington
35 Remington Magnum
358 Winchester
And more, why is it not more popular?

Looking forward to your responses.
Thanks
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+1 on the 35 whelen. I don't own one but a Ruger no1. In 35 whelen would be about as close to north american perfection as I could want.
 
Back before Remington adopted the.35 Whelen and standardized ammo and rifle dimensions (1987), it had existed as a rather popular wildcat with dimensions all over the page. Which oftentimes resulted in serious headspace problems. Which is why I had my first custom .35 Whelen chambered in the Ackley Improved version, which offers slightly more case capacity, but more important in my reckoning, a sharper, better defined shoulder and more positive headspacing. For some reason I can't recall I had the rifle fitted with a 26" barrel, which is about 3" longer then it needs to be, along with a dense black walnut stock, amounted to more weight than I wanted to carry over the mountains. So the rifle was retired from elk hunting after a couple of seasons but I still keep it around because it's very pretty, plus the possibility that I may someday shorten the barrel. DSC_0119.JPG DSC_0129.JPG 35impa.JPG
 
edwardware said:
I got interested in .35 caliber rifles because I wanted to use my extensive supply of 158-180gr .358 bullets for .357Mag/.38Spl in a rifle. In the last 4 years I owned a .35Rem Marlin lever, and a .358 Win Ruger American.

Both are gone, because in 4 years of reloading I was unable to get either rifle to equal the accuracy of my .357 revolvers. . . which is outrageously annoying. Hot, reduced, heavy, light, jacketed, lead, nothing worked.

It just weren't meant to be.
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You know what rifle shoots heavy .357 jacketed bullets great?

...a .357 Mag carbine, and H110 powder.


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Offfhand said:
Back before Remington adopted the.35 Whelen and standardized ammo and rifle dimensions (1987), it had existed as a rather popular wildcat with dimensions all over the page. Which oftentimes resulted in serious headspace problems. Which is why I had my first custom .35 Whelen chambered in the Ackley Improved version, which offers slightly more case capacity, but more important in my reckoning, a sharper, better defined shoulder and more positive headspacing. For some reason I can't recall I had the rifle fitted with a 26" barrel, which is about 3" longer then it needs to be, along with a dense black walnut stock, amounted to more weight than I wanted to carry over the mountains. So the rifle was retired from elk hunting after a couple of seasons but I still keep it around because it's very pretty, plus the possibility that I may someday shorten the barrel. View attachment 927239 View attachment 927240 View attachment 927241
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Very nice rifle!!
 
One of the reasons why I love 35 Remmy is because I have a 14" Contender pistol chambered in it. It can plink with bullets I use for 357 mag/38 spec. and I have a good amount of speer hot-cor 220's that have waylaid a few hogs with no issue out of that pistol. And it carries easier than any rifle.
The BEST plinker though has to be 158 cast SWC with 2/3'rds case of trailboss. Steel plates out to about 100 yards with that load can make one awesome sound.

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....might want to look at just a little bigger and do a little research on the 9.3x62-
If you reload it's a dream with plenty of horsepower for just about anything you would want to hunt
 
Weflyfast said:
....might want to look at just a little bigger and do a little research on the 9.3x62-
If you reload it's a dream with plenty of horsepower for just about anything you would want to hunt
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It you go there, you may as well get a 375 h&h.
Suddenly we escalated to a 577 .
 
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