Nolser has deaigned the 35 Nosler. I think, was given the impression it has been submitted to SAMMI for approval. However, they do not at this time anticipate actually bringing the round in rifles or components to market.

There is also a 36 Nosler same situation.

Now, you guys with more influence than I need to get on Nosler to fish or cut bait.

I think manufacturers do this frequently when they introduce a new family of cartridges whether or not they actually offer a particular bore size.

I would love to see a new .35 but for whatever reason they just don't seem to sell.

The current trend is for new low recoil rounds or maybe a few small bore magnums for the long range crowd.

The BC on a 275 grain bullet could be wonderful given design of course. That case would be everything maybe a bit more than the 35 STA. So, high velocity and high BC bullet with large caliber equals 35 cult happy, high velocity cult happy, heavy bullet cult happy, high bc cult happy, and high velocity cult happy.

Now, if I could get one in a CRF Model 70, or just break down and have that 358 STA built, I would be happy.

I have been shooting a couple of .358 STA's for years now and with tough bullets like the Northforks or Swift A-Frames and Partitions they are truly amazing on larger animals or in dangerous game country. The 270 Grain Northfork is my go to bullet on Elk are larger game and in both my rifles it puts three shots touching when I do my part pulling the trigger. I am sure the Nosler round will be fine and knowing them it will be fast also. I will say one thing about recoil, you need a good muzzle brake. One of mine has a Weatherby Accubrake and the other a Vies and both work quite good, recoiling about like an unbraked .300 Win mag. This is my experience with the fast 35's for what it is worth. Good shooting.

I am a 35 fan. Once you go big, you lose my love though because you lose the practicality of using pistol and 35 Rem bullets. Once you go big, it is all about the heaviest bullets, and that is great but I think part of the charm of the 35 Whelen and 350 Rigby is that it is a do all cart minus Pachyderm, hippo and rhino that I will probably never hunt. I do want to hunt Hippo though. Those are the hogs of big game...ugly, mean and tough. If you want to shoot heavy 35s beyond 200 yards, that is where the big 35s shine imho. Put the smack on an elk at 300+ yards though. If I wanted more than a 35 Whelen, I would go 35 Newton.

Boom Stick: I guess it depends on how you want to hunt hippo, but there is no reason why you could not brain one with any 35 Whelen soft or solid in water.

My hesitantion on land would be if the brain shot is flumb, then you got a huge angery hippo and no gun would be too big.

You got me enjoying the 225 grain Accubond. But I just can’t go lighter than that in the Whelen.

My experience is that hippos aren't nearly as resistant to bullets as Buffalo or elephant.

You need enough penetration on land, but they don't soak up the bullets like Buffalo can, a .375 TSX settled the one on land I shot quite nicely.

A big .35 with TSX or A frames will do just fine on body shots there. I don't think I'd trust a whelen for that job, though.

Brain shot in water... .30-06 is plenty enough.

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Originally posted by boom stick:
I am a 35 fan. Once you go big, you lose my love though because you lose the practicality of using pistol and 35 Rem bullets. Once you go big, it is all about the heaviest bullets, and that is great but I think part of the charm of the 35 Whelen and 350 Rigby is that it is a do all cart minus Pachyderm, hippo and rhino that I will probably never hunt.

Rhino and hippos are considered pachyderms (from the Greek word that means "thick skinned")

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