Just wondering who still has faith in this little close-range fireplug in either a lever or a pump.

There are probably a few out there that still use it, but in looking back over 46 years of hunting experiences, I can only remember hunting with one person that used the .35 Remington.

Great little woods cartridge that hits with authority. I used to have a Remington 7600 Carbine in 35 Rem...still kicking myself for selling it. It must have been a special edition, as it had oil-finished wood.

Lots being used through out the Northeast. I know of several neighbors that wouldn't dream of using something else. One used the old Rem 150 corlok until he couldn't get them anymore.
I have one I cut back to 16" and 2/3 magazine, for hunting bear with dogs, or deer in cedar swamps.

my very first deer bear rifle rem 760 in 35 rem. hunted in Pa. for years. actually very accurate.
It needs a new scope.

Don't care for it much.. Used it a little on deer and one large hog... Just too boring. Bang dead! No muss no fuss no belt no savage recoil no deafness no 6 foot ball o flame out the barrel.
Besides the cartridge is to small not even 4 inches long. What no belt!? Naw just no good, move one to something that will work like a .383 can o powder per shot blastoramic that separates the quarry into it's essential amino acids.

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my very first deer bear rifle rem 760 in 35 rem. hunted in Pa. for years. actually very accurate.
It needs a new scope.

Or a replacement in 30-06!

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Bieb I have one almost like that one in a 06

I keep looking at a Marlin 336SC in .35 Rem sitting in our local gunshop. The price isn't too bad and I've never owned a .35 before. Evil threads like this may make me want to go and buy it!

I have a Remington Model 14 in .35 Remington. I sighted it in, intending to go hunting with it a couple of years ago and then took it apart to clean it. I haven't been able to reassemble it and make it function properly since then. Too bad, it seems like a neat little cartridge.

http://www.gunpartscorp.com/Ma...s-37895/14-39479.htm

I have a Ballard rifled Marlin 336 from 1952, a Rem 760 from 1952, a Rem 141 from 1946 and a Super 14 Contender barrel. I bought these for range use and not for something so ordinary as hunting where they would be shot once a year.

Unlike a lot of folks I actually have plenty of brass for this round too.

It is a fun gun to hunt with though. The last buck I killed with iron sights was killed with the Rem 141.

It is excellent for shooting cast bullets.

For years I've wanted a 35 Rem in a Marlin lever rifle. They seem to command premium if not crazy prices in this part of the world. Last fall I picked up a used 35 in good shape. I put an old Scopechief 1.5-4.5 scope on it and tried some handloads with 180 gr Speer and 200 gr Hornady flex tip bullets. IMR 3031 appears to be the bullet of choice for this rifle. Both are grouping around an inch @ 100 yds. I am pleasantly surprised at the accuracy this rifle is giving me. It will be using it on deer this fall. While I do not have experience with a 35 Rem I have used the 358 Win and 35 Whelan Imp. That 35 hole cal hole lets blood out a lot better than smaller calibres and I have found them to be far more effective than their paper ballistics indicate.

Curveball, that's a nice collections of .35s you have there. I started getting interested in this 111-year-old development a couple of months ago when I noticed a nice, early-'50s Marlin 336A with peep for sale at a local shop. They only wanted $400.
By the time I realized what a deal that was, I went back and it had been sold. Story o' my life ...

My pitiful story of regret comes from about 1970 on a pawn shop run. I found one of the long barreled rifles with the 1/2 magazine in a pawn shop for $65. It was one of the early waffle top 336 rifles not drilled for a scope. I was all about scopes back then.
I didn't buy but later changed my mind and went back to get it. It was gone. So I stopped by the gunsmith to see what his latest project was. He was getting ready to cut off the barrel of that Marlin for the bozo that bought it.

GAAA!

I remember spotting a Remington 600 in 35 Remington in a gun shop and thinking what a great little package it was.

My first 35 was a Remington 14 with a Marbles tang sight. Then was talked in to trading for a Remington 141 (newer is not better). Then I got a Ballard rifled 336 from my friend Norm Greenbacher. If I could only get one gun back that I traded away, it would be Norm's Marlin. The foolishness of youth.
I coveted a NULA 35 that a friend in WV had but could not persuade him to turn loose of.

Almost forgot the Remington Model 8 I had for a season. It was nice but it didn't carry too well.

One day years ago I went into a fairly large gunstore in Michigan, where, much to my surprise, they had one of the Remington custom shop M7 Mannlichers in 35 Remington. After a discussion with the rather irascible proprietor I took that rifle home and enjoyed it for several years before having one of my periodic attacks of stupid and selling it off. Dumb dumb dumb. With its strong action and 308-length magazine it really liked 225 Woodleighs at about 2100, but these days I'd be happy as could be with factory level stuff. I'd love to find a nice 336 in it.

And I really enjoyed els spot-on post above about the modern trends towards amino acids...

Steve, there's a pretty good looking Marlin 336A in .35 on Gunsinternational last I checked.

Friend of mine has one in a Marlin..Ive seen a few deer shot with it and I culled some whitetail with it some years back..I was surprised at the somewhat harsh recoil and the fact that it killed no better than a 30-30..My friend has also shot a few elk, and a couple of Black bear and isn't particularly satisfied with it. Said they sure had to be close, and they ran a long ways everytime. My grandson in law has one and doesn't much like it but it belonged to his real grandpaw.

that said its sure popular in Tenn. and Alabama, but those old boys are still shooting deer and bear with black powder shotguns!!

Ray, I've heard others say they thought the recoil harsh in a Marlin. Only .35 I have shot was a Model 8 I owned some time back. I thought it pretty mild, but then with that long-recoil Browning system there is so much sustained activity going on after one pulls the trigger ...

When I was a kid, only two cartridges made up 90 percent of rifles found in the deer woods (deer were fairly rare then); the 30-30 and the 35 Rem; most of them in Model 94s and Marlin 336s.

I have my dad's old 336sc in 35Rem which he bought new in 1951 or 52, and he wanted me to pass it to my son someday, which I plan on doing.
It's a short handy carbine good for woods handling, and with the Lyman receiver sight, certainly not a real long range cartridge. I have for the last few years playing with a Swedish Husqvarna M 4 sporter, a bolt action in 9.3x57 which throws a bullet of around 270-280 grains at velocities similar or a little slower than the 35 Rem. This one is also not very spectacular , but a big heavy slow bullet always does the job.

Had one in a rem 600 when I was young...it was a reliable killer...

Ed

The cartridge has a mystical quality in branches of my family. It started with my Grampa and a Remington 141, my brother inherited the rifle. My Dad had a 338 Marlin. My son a Savage 340.

I have some old Pacific Chrome dies. IMR 3031 and 200 gr Remington Coreloks are great whitetail medicine.

I killed a buck once with one. Shot him through
the lungs, he made three bounds and piled up out of sight. Then he let out two grunts. Its the goofiest thing I have ever seen/heard a well shot buck do. At that time, I really had no idea if the deer was down, or standing ready to bolt.

If the 35 Rem has "harsh recoil" What does heavily loaded 8x57's, 338's 9.3x62's have ?? Let alone 375's, 404's and 458's. They must nearly tear a man's arm off ???

Harsh recoil
My .358x41 w/ mod.98 and a 16" bull barrel,equals the performance of the 35 Rem. With a 300grain gas checked bullet at 2200 fps.the recoil is harsh
roger

Somebody here needs this

http://www.gunbroker.com/item/625811341

My cousin had a 141 with an 18.5" barrel and a receiver sight. Last I talked to him he had taken 36 whitetails with it. He seemed to think that fat 200 gr cup and core bullet was just about perfect for woods ranges.

Mark

I have a couple model 81s in which I load pointy 150gr bullets from CEB. Those bullets are a game changer for the venerable 35Rem.

Drew, what velocities are you getting? That's a really interesting concept.
Tree em, that Standard was a homely number, wasn't it?

I have three of them, but I can't remember the last time that I shot any of them.

Marlin 336 SC
Remington 141
Savage 170

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The cartridge has a mystical quality in branches of my family. It started with my Grampa and a Remington 141, my brother inherited the rifle. My Dad had a 338 Marlin. My son a Savage 340.

I have some old Pacific Chrome dies. IMR 3031 and 200 gr Remington Coreloks are great whitetail medicine.

I killed a buck once with one. Shot him through
the lungs, he made three bounds and piled up out of sight. Then he let out two grunts. Its the goofiest thing I have ever seen/heard a well shot buck do. At that time, I really had no idea if the deer was down, or standing ready to bolt.

You have a Savage 340 in 35 Remington? That must be one of a kind!

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my very first deer bear rifle rem 760 in 35 rem. hunted in Pa. for years. actually very accurate.
It needs a new scope.

Or a replacement in 30-06!

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Those 760 BDLs are my favorite style of Remington pump gun! I've got them in 270 and 30-06, but have yet to see one in 308.

Mine is in the Remington XP-100. Does a great job!

great round , fun to shoot, kills out of proportion to ex-bal.

i'd love a contender in it

I have a contender in the .35. It was popular where I grew up for whitetail from a tree stand.

Great round.

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great round , fun to shoot, kills out of proportion to ex-bal.

i'd love a contender in it

I had just that Contender. It had a 2X (or was it a 2.5X?) Thompson scope with illuminated reticle on it and it had a short 10" barrel. I sold it because I had no use for it when I moved from Indiana to Oregon. (Indiana forbade using a CF rifle for deer hunting, but allowed CF rifle cartridges if in a handgun.)

It was very accurate: My first 3 shot group measured 0.5in at 100 yards.

A year or so later I took a 4x4 buck with it from about 75 yards.

I'll never forget that. The buck was standing rock-still and I had a perfect broadside shot at his right side and a perfect rest.

I fired and he didn't flinch. I thought: "WTF! How can this be?? I COULDN'T have missed him . . . or could I? Should I reload (and risk spooking him) and shoot again, or just wait and have confidence in my placement?"

I looked through my scope and saw a small blemish on the buck's right side (about where I'd aimed) which wasn't there when I pulled the trigger. So I waited. After perhaps a half minute, he turned 180 degrees and wandered about 5 yards, then turned and walked slowly and uncertainly directly away from me for about 20 yards, turned right, and just sank to the ground stone cold dead.

It was a perfect heart shot and the bullet slipped between his ribs. And my family enjoyed a wonderful venison roast for Thanksgiving.

Wish I'd never sold the thing . . .

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If the 35 Rem has "harsh recoil" What does heavily loaded 8x57's, 338's 9.3x62's have ?? Let alone 375's, 404's and 458's. They must nearly tear a man's arm off ???

I guess Atkinson was making some sort of comparative comment, considering his ability to shake the guts out of scopes on his 458 Lott etc. Some small rifles can occur to us like that, though.

I am surprised how much my supposedly mild 6.5x54 kicks, while various elephant numbers have made little impression shoulder-wise. I did once make a mistake with the placement of my thumb on a PH's Lott, though, and it nearly took my nose off.