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I was sorting through my reloading bench area and came across a box of reloading supplies I forgot I had. It was for my 35 Remington (Marlin 336C). I picked up the rifle years ago in a trade, and shot it about 20 times to get the scope sighted in, and to play a bit. I put an idle Lyman AA Permacenter 2.5x scopte (horizontal cross hair and vertical post). 38g/H4895 + Rem 200 grain Rem corelokt bullet was the load. Shot well, just over an inch at 50 yards, and just under two inches at 100 yards. I thought it would be a trim woods rifle for deer in Maine. I just haven't been out hunting in a few years-so it sat idle for a while. So, since I have a few days off, I ask the board to contribute some good 35 Remington stories (loads, hunts, guns they had). I know the 35 Rem isn't a glamour cartridge, but it's 100 years old and just seems to keep working well in the deer woods. It's not a 404 Jeffery or 458 Lott. You don't read about exciting safaris with a PH using a 35 Rem, but seems like those who have one, love it. I like this little cartridge. Sadly, oven overlooked for more "zippy" and flashy cartridges. Cast one vote for the 35 Rem. -------------------------------------------------------- Behavior accepted, is behavior repeated. | ||
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nugman My brother in law snuck out his wifes 35 Remington pump a couple of weeks ago. It is the new model 760 pump. We were all down at the deer lease. He went out one morning with it and came back with a real nice pig. It was a bang/flop. He was using the new Hornady LEVERrevolution ammo. DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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i killed my first deer with a 35rem, model 336C. only had one day off from school, so dad let me use his gun and he took a shotgun,which later proved to help me get my first deer. anyways, we were headers on a drive and dad was on the end. the deer came up from behind my dad and stood there looking at him at 30 yards. he raised the gun and "click" didn't go off. so it runs up the hill and stops in front of my brother and grandfather. my brother couldn't get the fancy mittens to cooperate,with the slit in them, to get your fingers out so you could shoot.grandpap waited as long as he could and then shot, hitting a limb right in front of the deers ribs, according to my brother who was still trying to get his gloves off. so the deer heads my way and comes running past me at about 5 yards. i pulled up and only seeing fur in the 4 power scope, well let's just say the gun went off, can't remember the exact details, and the deer was on the ground.that would be exactly 40 years ago in the woods of Pennsylvania. and yes, the ammo was rem cor-lok 200 gr round nose bullets! | |||
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We have one. I've killed three deer with it. One with a speer 180 gr. bullet, one with a remington 150 gr. and another with a remington 200 gr. bullet. Could'nt ask for better performance out of any of the three bullets. This is a very underated round. Kills deer like there's no tommorrow. | |||
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One of my teen jobs(MANY years ago) was Dragging Deer for many of the Elders I knew and greatly respected. Three of them had 35Rem Marlins and Loaded them with 180gr Speer Bullets. Not sure on the Powder they used, but all of them used the exact same Load. I can remember hearing one of them shoot twice one time and immediately thought, "Well..., one of them has FINALLY missed a Deer!"  Got down there with the old trusty Drag Stick made from a Double Bit Axe Handle and he had Killed two Deer.  Perhaps time has clouded those youthful memories, but I do not ever remember any of those three gentlemen missing or wounding a Deer. Always plenty of Deer to drag for them and their 35s. Not a thing wrong with the 200gr RNs either. Great old Cartridge. | |||
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I shot a cow moose with a 35 rem. one of the biggest body moose i have ever shot. The 35 rem. did it's job. | |||
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Harvested 2 deer early on with a 35 Rem pump in the late 60s. Since then there has been a parade of guns and cartridges. Another that has long been favored is a 30/40 in a #3. | |||
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If Hornady can be believed, the new Leverevolution ammo for the 35 remington puts it into another catagory. | |||
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When I was young I spent a lot of time on a farm in central PA where crop damage was a big problem. Unfortunately they shot the deer to protect the crops. My friend Joe had a Marlin 336 in 35 Rem. There was no blue on the metal or finish on the wood but that was the only gun Joe had and he killed a lot of deer. I saw him make some incredible off hand shots that I would have never attempted. | |||
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As I blew right by 50 a decade ago I realized it had been more than 30 years since I had shot a deer with an iron sighted rifle. (it was the day after Kennedy was assassinated Nov 23, 1963) Since my eyesight was beginnning to get rusty I thought I should give it another try while I could. At the time I was on a nice hunting lease of about 2400 acres with my brothers. I decided to take an iron sighted rifle hunting. The place in question has both open and densely wooded areas in any given quarter of a mile. I had one rifle that could not be used with a scope A like new Model 141 Reminton pump...it was never drilled and tapped. However not wanting to pass a shot on a distant buck gave me an idea. I just took 2 rifles. I carried the M141 with a M700 Remington 25-06 slung over my back. Two bucks traveling together came out of the woods to cross a pipeline right of way. The old Remington was loaded with 38 grains of 3031 and the Speer 180 grain bullet. It entered the right shoulder at the neck and exited the ham on the other side. The buck swapped ends and jumped out of sight in about 2 jumps. I walked the 80 yards or so and slowly walked behind the cedars and he was down and out about 20 feet away. | |||
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ireload2 Mmmmmm..... What we need to know is what rifle were you shooting on THE DAY Kennedy was assinated..... As Oswald never fired a shot..... DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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There was an old timer where I grew up who used to kill moose with his Remington model 8 in 35 Rem .......There is a book [ Alaska,s Bear Hunting Judge ] ......He killed alot of bear with his rem model 8 in 35 rem ... .If it can,t be grown , its gotta be mined .... | |||
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The 35 Rem certainly has been popular here in NY. I don't know anyone using the Hornady but have had good reports about the Buffalo Bore 220 gr bullet !The interesting gun is the Rem 14 and 141 ,when I first saw one I thought it was a toy gun ! It has a weird mag tube so the bullet doesn't touch the primerof the one in front. | |||
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A Marlin 336 in 35 Remington was the first centerfire rifle I bought. I cut grass in the community all summer and had my dad take me to K-Mart to buy it. It cost $118 then. I have killed dozens of deer with mine. I stacked it in the corner when I bought a 270 and other long range centerfires. Most of the deer I have killed I could have easily killed with the 35. It is a sure killer. I tried reloading for it but found that the Remington factory load was about all one needed. I have not tried the Hornady stuff yet but it is intriguing. I would like to hear more about field experience with the Leverevoluton stuff. | |||
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It was a couple of years ago, that Remington's Custom Shop was offering Mannlicher Stocked Model 7s, with 20 inch barrels.. Two of the chamberings that appealed to me, were in 260 and in 35 Remington.. I profess that on my short list of classic rifles I'd love to have, are the Model 54 and Model 30 S, with chamberings in 35 Remington...along with 32 Remington, 30 Remington and 25 Remington.. I know the Model 54 wasn't chambered in all of those.. but the model 30 S was... I have an older friend here in town who is a little over 70, who was originally from Minnesota.... He still thinks the niftiest deer rifle ever invented was what he hunted with back in Minnesota growing up.. and took with him to Alaska when he moved up there back in the 1950s... Remington Model 14 chambered in 35 Remington...Its pretty much what he hunted with his entire life... unfortunately a stroke ended his hunting days a couple of years ago... Life Member: The American Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Jan 20, 2009.. Prisoner in Dumocrat 'Occupied America', Partisan in the 'Save America' Underground Beavis..... James Beavis..... Of Her Majesty's Secret Service..... Spell Check Division "Posterity — you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." John Quincy Adams A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers. The reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying and asked him "Why do you carry a 45?" The Ranger responded, "Because they don't make a 46." Duhboy....Nuttier than Squirrel Poop... | |||
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One of my first "big game" killers was a Remington 600 in a 35 rem had a peep site on it and later I added a 2.5X compact Leupold. Smoked a bunch of whitetail deer (mostly does) with it. I put in in the cabinet for a zippy 25-06 and never went back to the 35. I later built up a 358 that I LOVE! The 35 has got a lot going for it. I'd like remington to build a left hand 35 rem in a bolt. My 600 was and still is extreamly accurate! It likes the Hornady Lever ammo DRSS Member | |||
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Hey guys i have 2 for ya. my first and second bucks were shot usuing a remington model 14 in 35 rem 200 grn core-lokts. the first buck walked right up to about 10 yrds from me and i was sitting on the backside of a tree, and it was snowing, and my outfit was covered in snow and he never even knew i was there and i hot him in the front shoulder and blew one leg off and just about blew off the other one he went about 20 yrds on his chest before piling up. The second on i shot was running at roughly 50 yrds and i just aimed for the front edge of his chest and sqeezed off a round and he kept running so i worked the pump and put another one in him and that was it for him both deer were prolly dead before they hit the ground but that 35 did an awesome job. as a matter of fact i might just have to go and buy another one. | |||
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Nugman-The .35 Rem is a great whitetail round. I like to hunt them in the woods and have taken a bunch with the .35. I have a Rem 760, a couple of Marlin 336s, an Encore .35R barrel, and a Rem Model 81 in .35. I still want to barrel a Model 7 for the .35 Rem so I will have a bolt rifle in the caliber. I wore out a chestnut oak stump for about 3 days waiting along side a deer run. Finally he came along when I was there. A nice 8pt(well one antler was broken off at base) came slipping along the trail. He was facing me straight on and I shot him right in the center of the chest with the 760 with a 200g Hornady over 37g of 3031. He reared up on his back legs like a panicked horse and collapsed straight down. I recovered the bullet in the rumen-looked like the classic ad for the deadliest mushroom in the woods. The .35 is a great round with lots of history and nostalgia. K. F. Lee of New England hunting camp fame had kind words for it as even did Elmer Keith. It is a great deer killer with mild recoil and it doesn't have head banging muzzle blast either. I also use a .358 Win in a Rem M78 and it is just more of a good thing. Long live the .35s!! Plateau Hunter | |||
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Abour 40 years ago two friends and i made a quiet drive through a white cedar swamp in northern wisconsin, just below the Michigan border. I got a running shot at a buck with my Marlin 336 in .35 Rem and missed. The three of us gathered on the edge of the swamp so the other guys could have a smoke and give me the raspberrys for missing my shot. One of the guys glanced up and said "Hey, theres a doe watching us." I turned and looked the way he was faced ang said "Doe hell, thats a buck". The deer made a huge leap, I snapped off a shot as did our third member. He was shooting a Winchester M71 .348. Both shots hit the deer, one double lung through and through and one cut the diaphram and liver also through and through. The deer ran almost 100 yards and died trying to crawl under a windfall. No trouble tracking, we had snow, and there was a two foot wide blood trail on both sides of the tracks. I would never have thought a deer had that much blood in them. Wound channels from both rounds looked about the same, so we never knew which shot was which. I still nave a .35 Rem in the arsenel,a Reminton 141, for 99% of the shots on deer nothing kills them any better. | |||
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I have a '51 336A (24" barrel), that I love. Finished off a muley buck with it, and shot one buffalo. The buffalo was not a hunt, just meat and hide for our fire department. 40 yards, one shot behind the ear on a young bull, dropped on the spot. Just Remington factory 200 grain loads for both. "Be kind and polite to everyone you meet. But have a plan on how to kill them." From an old Marine. | |||
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Here's another version of the .35 Remington, a T/C Super 14 barrel on a standard T/C handgun action, with a huge custom muzzle break. My Grandfather made up the muzzle break. Used the gun when I was living in upstate NY in shotgun/handgun territory. Got two deer in heavy brush, one so close I could almost touch it. The 200 grain slug punched right thru without mushrooming, probably because I was so close to the deer. Had to follow the blood trail for 300 yards before I had a carcass and meat in the fridge. Was humorous going into shops there and seeing people buying .35 Rem rifle ammo in that shotgun only region, cause you knew those cartridges were all for T/Cs. The .30-30 might have been better, but NY required .35 caliber or larger in those days, so T/Cs in .35 Rem and .44 Magnum ruled.  | |||
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Shot a nice buck with a T/C Contender pistol and a 12" barrel 35 Rem. Rem factory 200 gr. load. Nice solid 200 lb. 8 point. Heart shot at 35 yards, he ran 20 yards uphill and dropped. I prefer the .358 Win or .350 RM over the 35 Rem but I can't say it didn't perform perfectly. | |||
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This summer with help of a friend and his lathe I built a 35 rem on a carcano. Throated to seat the bullets out, and to use spitzers, it works perfectly. Killed lots of rocks with it getting used to it, it'll ride in the truck as a fun gun come fence building time in the spring. Still looking for a few more clips if anyone has a few kicking around. | |||
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I have been hunting with a 35 Re. for a number of years, it puts deer down quickly and it is very handy to carry around, it is chambered in a Rem. M600 and is very accurate, the bullet I use is the Hornady 200 Sptz. I guess the thing that I like about it the most is that I never lost an animal I shot at with this gun. bigbull | |||
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My very first big game animal was with a marlin 336c in 35 Remington top with a fixed 4 power Redfield Widefield…it was a cow elk outside of Hayden, Co. Oddly enough I also owned 30-06 at the time. I saw this 336c in a shop and decided it looked cool and I like things that are different…so I loaded up some rounds. A 200 grain Hornady Spire Point followed by 180 grn Speer flat points as I recall. Anyway there were 5 of us basically road hunting south and west of Hayden, Co which is a patch work of BLM and coal mining land as I recall. The local warden encouraged the coal company to allow access to keep the herd down. We spotted a group of probably 15 or 20 cows as we crested a rise about 300 yards ahead and about 50 yards up the slope. So we pulled over and put on a little sneak. Since, I was the newbie and had short range rifle I got to shoot first. Well, I leaned over a fence post and picked out a cow at about 100 yards. In my nervousness not to miss probably held right in the center of the animal because I hit her just behind the ribs. She started moving up the hill clearly sick so I held about at the base of her neck and squeezed of another round and she dropped. The bullet kinda lobbed in over her rump and took out a chunk of spine. Meanwhile, another cow that had been hit by one of the other hunters was trotting back towards us and slightly downhill and they called out for me to shoot her…I squeezed off another shot at her and hit her square in the shoulder at about 75 yards and she dropped. All in all, we took 3 three cows out of that group and shot 2 more within a mile. 5 cows in one morning. Man did we have a lot of work to do. The year was 1996 and I was hooked on big game hunting. Sold that rifle to a fella in Tennessee either off of here or Huntamerica when it was around IIRC. He referred to the 35 Remington as King of the Woods, I think. Mike Legistine actu? Quid scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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 Mike I am that 'fellow in TN'!! I still have that rifle and it is a dandy. My boys will have it after me. It is a first year of production rifle in the Marlin with Ballard rifling. It has a 'G' prefix for 1950 as I recall.Regrettably I haven't hunted it as I have several other .35s ready to go. I need to replace the butt plate on 'your' old rifle. I know it will perform admirably. Thanks again for the old war horse. Plateau Hunter | |||
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PH, You know I thought it was you but wasn't quite sure. If you ever consider selling it email me, I'll buy it back from ya...as you can imagine it has has some nostalgic value to me. Mike Legistine actu? Quid scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue. What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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There is no way to count all the deer and pigs I killed with the 35 Rem.Alot of the African hunters hate the Hornady bullets but for deer and pigs as well as elk I have no problem with them.I had to chase more deer shot with higher power rifles than the good old 35 Rem,there was 1 exception.Friends called me over to a pipeline and dared me to shoot the 6 point standing on the edge of the pipeline 200 yards away,I shot 5 times and felt the deer was made of steel,never moved!We walked over to it and found it was a decoy,all 5 shots were in the bread box and if it had been a real deer it would have fallen to the first shot. I haven't used it for many years but after reading this I'm gonna take it out and dust it off and check it for accuracy.I still have my reload notes on the 35 Rem and will load a few and shoot them just for old times sake.If I needed to I would still use it for shots under 200 yards with my Hornady reloads for muleys or mabe even elk.Drop-Shot | |||
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I think the 35 Rem is generally overlooked but a solid performer. I'm looking for a Rem 336 chambered in this cartridge. Let me know if you have one for sale.... | |||
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About a year and a half ago, I was in Quebec for a spring bear hunt. Because shots were expected to be within 40 yards, I thought it would be neat to use my Marlin 336cs in 35rem. Well, the first day of the hunt, I walked to my stand and got situated. Not 5 minutes later, about a 400# blackie walked down the trail, staring right at me the whole time. I decided to watch him for a few minutes and see what he was going to do. When he got near my stand, he turned to me and started huffing and growling. He then walked over and started to climb the ladder to my 8 foot ladder stand (2 sections of ladder were missing). I shot him straight down in the spine at the base of his neck. He died tangled in the ladder of the stand, so I had to climb over him to get to the ground. Very unnerving! But, the ole 35 with a 200gr. Hornady Leverevolution bullet did a fantastic job, taking out a baseball size chunk of the spine and traveling through to the hip. The bullet retained 156.9gr. even at a 3 foot shot range to heavy bone. As far as the Hornady ammo goes, I like it alot. I was shooting book max loads under a 200gr. Rem round nose and they shot sub-inch at 100 yds. Then I picked up a feww boxes of the Hornady ammo to try, and it shot 6.5 inches higher at 100 yds! It doesn't group as well as my reloads but, it still shoots about 1.5 - 2 inches at 100yds. A few weeks ago, I also shot about a 150# doe with this ammo. She was trotting about 125 yds away, when I shot. The bullet caught the back end of one lung and the liver, and she still didn't make it 10 yds. I'm pretty well sold on this gun, caliber, and ammo combination. Every deer season, I prove to myself more and more, you don't need big magnums to kill stuff. Hopefully, here's a few pics of the bear.   | |||
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Hey Crash, NICE - really NICE - Bear! Continued good Hunting and clean 1-shot Kills. | |||
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Thanks Hot Core! That bad boy is hanging on the wall now and the meat is just a fond memory. | |||
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My Dad used to hunt Cape Buffalo with one. On one occasion, his shot was a through and through heart shot, missed all bone and broke the shoulder of the buff standing behind it! (That one needed a finishing shot). My dad loved that rifle. It was a pump action and short, but I do not know the make - at 88, I don't think he remembers. Regards 303Guy | |||
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Found a piece of .35 rem a few days ago and it reminded me of this thread  "Let me start off with two words: Made in America" | |||
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bigbull, I have the same M600 rifle but have always used RN bullets. I plan to try some of the Hornady 200 gr SPs and would appreciate it if you were willing to share your load data. | |||
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.35 Rem. is an all time favorite of mine. I've got a Remington 30S carbine and this, my 1950 vintage Marlin SC that I picked up at a local buy and sell place for cheap because somebody tried to do somekind of internal alteration and screwed it up. With some new parts it works great and shoots like a target rifle. I spend a lot of time in the woods and it is quite often the first companion gun that I grab on the way out. Easy to carry and will stop anything that needs it. I also slimmed the stock down. I never cared much for the beavertail forend and thick grip on these old guys. Now it feels like it should.  "Isn't it pretty to think so." | |||
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