I am looking for a short cartridge for my next project. I looked up the .35 Remington and saw it had a good OAL, but the ballistics were more moderate than I wanted. Then I noticed the rounds were loaded in the 31k psi and lower range.

Does anyone have reliable loading data for the .35 Remington in a strong, modern bolt action?

I'll assume the action you are using is too short for the obvious choice, the .358 Winchester. You might be luckier talking to the single shot pistol forum about data as the 35 Rem was factory chambered in the XP100 bolt action pistol.

One of the Handloader or Rifle magazines had this data for a 760 Remington about 20 years ago. I tried it and found the thin brass of the .35 Remington case head developed a significant step at the solid head/case wall junction on the first shot. However the primers showed no sign of excess pressure and the 760 was not stressed in the slightest. If you chamber the 35 Remington in a modern bolt gun make sure the chamber is only .002 or .003 larger than your case head diameter to control the radial stretching of the case.

Yep, REALLY short action. THanks for the leads on both the pistol data and the potential brass issue!

Anyone here hunt wiht one? I have only known one guy with a .35 Remington and he shot factory ammo in a lever gun

I have one in a Remington 600, had it for years. I didnt know they were that rare, so I used the crap out of it when I was young. I re-finished the stock a few years ago.

Loads for it. Only loaded 180 and 200 grn round nose, hornady and 180 and 220 grn speer.

horndy 180grn 28.5grn RL-7
Speer 180grn same
hornady 200grn 28grn win 748 (pretty hot in my gun)~1900 out of a 18.6 in barrel

Sorry it is 38grn of 748, my old note book writing is terrible. I guess I know who's to blame!

Ed

Years ago I read a comment about how the 357 Herrett in a pistol outperformed a 35 Remington, and it was because of the restricted pressures in the dat for the 35 Rem.

All that said, I would bet that at moderate pressures in a bolt gun the performance numbers for the 35 Rem would improve dramatically. I would also bet that pressures could climb fairly quickly in the 35 Rem case.

IF 358 would fit your action the performance figures would greatly outshine the 35 Remmie.

Course the Remmie has kilt a lot of critters and dead is dead.

must it be a factory round?
JDJ: SSK's 358 does 2600 FPS with a 225 and 2700+ with a 180

I'd just take the current listed factory loads or the Marlin data and work up from there...

seems like H 322, Benchmark, 3031 would be the slowest powders that you would want to try...

Myself, I'd play with 4198 burn rates first...

I am envious of you having a 35 Rem Bolt Action.. two rifles I'd love to have are a Rem 30S in 35 Rem and then a Model 70 or 54 in 35 Rem....

talk about nostalgic!

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Originally posted by Marc_Stokeld:
Yep, REALLY short action. THanks for the leads on both the pistol data and the potential brass issue!

Anyone here hunt with one? I have only known one guy with a .35 Remington and he shot factory ammo in a lever gun

I hunted with one once a upon a time. After decades of basically "executing" deer with about 10 other scoped center fires including 11 deer with one 25/06 I realized that my sharp vision was not going to last forever. I started hunting with iron sighted rifles. Consequently I bought several old basic "retro" deer rifles, 3 in .35 Rem, one .375 Win and a 30/30.
Two of the .35s are pumps, a like mint new 141 Rem made in 1946 and 760 Rem made in 1952 I believe.
The other .35 was also made in 1952 I believe and it is a Ballard rifled 336 Marlin. I shot one buck with the 141. It was the first iron rifle I had used to hunt deer in 30 years.

The load that I used in the 141 was not a high pressure load though I think it was higher pressure than factory loads. It was 40 grains of 3031 and the 180 grain Speer. This load normally expanded bit of a bulge about 1/2 to 3/4 around the case head. The 141 handled it like a factory load. My concern with the brass was to make it last since .35 Remington brass is no longer that common. None of my .35 Remingtons require a small base die to function properly.

I 'Big Bore Rifles" there is a chapter for reloading the 35 remington for bolt and other rifles ( like the 600, 760, ect.). It is exactly what you are looking for I believe.