.35 Remington

[Walkalong]

I am going to start loading .35 Remington for the first time. For top velocities with 180 Gr bullets in my Speer #13 manual shows H-335 (using a Mag primer), Reloader 12, and 2015BR. I am out of 2015, have never had any R-12, but do have some H-335. All I have is WLR primers. Will they work, or should I get a mag primer for H-335? I do not particularly want to stock reg and mag rifle primers, and don't want to waste time with H-335 and WLR primers if they will not work well.

A step down in velocity shows N-133 & IMR-4895, both of which I have, but would like to get close to as much velocity as I can with the 180's.

Any other suggestions for powder choice?

Right now I have the Speer 180 Gr Flat SP bullets. I will try the 200 Gr Core-Lokt and LEVERevolution bullets at some time, but for now it's the Speer 180's.

Any help from both .35 shooters and .35 reloaders will be most welcome. Thanks, AC

 

[351 WINCHESTER]

I was told to use mag. primers for ball powders, but I've been using H335 in my .303 with lr primers for several years and never had a problem.

 

[Walkalong]

Speer has always recommended mag primers with ball powders. I want to know from someone who has tried H-335 in .35 Remington or something similar if the results (velocity, ES, SD, accuracy, etc) are as good without mag primers (WLR in particular), or do I really need them in this application with H-335.

 

[stonecoldy]

Walkalong I'm sorta in the same boat, having picked up a Marlin 336C in .35 Remington this summer. I have accumulated enough brass to start reloading this winter and make some range trips, work permitting.
I have been looking through some manuals and on the Internet for some choices and in the Hogdon 2010 Annual Loading Manual, for the Speer 180 grain Flatnose, they list a starting charge for H335 at 34.0 grains, up to a max charge of 37.5 grains. These give velocities of 1953 fps starting and going up to 2111 fps top end, out of a 24" barrel, 1 in 16" twist.
Primer used for all loads: Remington 9 1/2.
I am not familiar with that primer, don't have anything but Winchester Large Rifle Primers myself.
If you haven't looked here http://www.marlinowners.com/forums/index.php?www might be worth poking around. I apologize if you have already. Seems to be a fair amount of info somewhere in the Marlin Forum.
Sorry I can't be more helpful. Hopefully I'll have more experience with this caliber by next spring. Personally I have plenty of the Remington 200 grain round nosed Corelokts I want ot work on first. Best of luck.

 

[Walkalong]

next spring

Maybe the .35 Rem folks will come along and enlighten both of us sooner than then.

I'll have to check out the marlinowners.com forums. Thanks for the link.

 

[NCsmitty]

I have only used the 200gr FTX bullets in loads for the 35 Rem. I used Hornady's recommended near max charge for H4895 in Leverevolution fired brass.
I didn't get to chronograph the loads, as it wasn't my rifle, but the loads took 2 deer last year.



NCsmitty

 

[Shimitup]

The closest I can get is Winchester 358 having fired W748, H335, and BLC-2 all ahead of a Federal 210M, they seem to have burned cleanly. These powders and an assortment of bullets from 180 to 220gr gave me an SD all in the ballparks of 17. I can't comment on accuracy as the BLR has open sights not to my liking. I will say my notes have "good" in the accuracy column for the Speer 180FP.

P.S. The Speer 180 FP was loaded over 48 gr of H335 for 2360 fps, SD 17.9 for that load.

 

[Birdmang]

I found a live .35 remington round today in my collection, and man does it look like a beastly round.

 

[BP6925]

Florissant, Mo. here
I've use the .35 Rem Leveraction for years for wild bore...

Load Chart: ( zero in at 250 yrds )
Brass = Win
Primers = CCI 200
Powder = IMR 3031 32.7 1800 fps
Bullet = 200 gr RN

 

[Remo-99]

In my humble opinion I don't think you will any troubles with WLR primers and H335 in a 35rem size round, unless your shooting them in the northern states in sub zero temps.
If it were a magnum size round then yeah, go with the magnum primers.
Sounds like ya might have some testing to do.

 

[MMCSRET]

I have used H335 in 35 Remington with CCI200 and WLR and had fine results, even in below zero temperatures, It worked as well as IMR3031 and some other extruded powders. I never had fine accuracy with bullets lighter than 200 gr. and the best I got was using Remington 200 gr. round nose soft points, same bullet used in Remington factory ammunition.

 

[Greg Mercurio]

I shoot .35 Remington in a Contender with both H335 and BL(C)-2 with WLR primers. Both work just dandy. Fun round in a pistol. If you like that sort of thing.