I have a Rem. 700 CDL in 35 Whelen that has been sitting on the rack for 3 months now. Since I havn't had time to work up a load for it yet I picked up a box of Rem. 200 gr. factory loads to try it out. While accuracy with this load is sub par, I did find one thing I really like. The Limbsaver recoil pad they put on this gun is great. It was much more pleasant to shoot than my 30/06 ever was. I need to get some more of those pads. I topped the gun with a Bushnell Legend 2x7x32 which looks nice on the gun. Not to heavey or bulky. I have some 200 gr. Hornady SP to try out soon I hope. The factory Rem. would only do 2.5- 2.75" groups at 100 yards off rock solid sand bags.

Good shooting,
Greg

Thanks for the report Greg. I was wondering how those factory Limbsaver pads worked. I'm sure accuracy can be much better than what you are getting now.

Sounds like a sweetheart! I too am sold on Limbsaver pads, the best recoil reducing pads Ive ever seen bar-none.

The Legend scopes are a great value, mine will be resting on my 06 very soon. (the 06 with a Limbsaver pad.)

Try some 225 gn BT's for that Whelen with a charge of Rlr 15. It is a much stoouter bullet then they get credit for. They named that bullet "the Whelen" for a reason. The only bt Nosler has bothered to name at all.

For deer I use a 200 gn Hornady interlock @ 2800 fs.

I bought my CDL 35whelen about 3 months ago and love it. Should have bought one years ago! I'm shooting 225gr TSX at 2575fps with a little over book max load of IMR 4064. BTW I'm getting real good groups with mine.

I bought a 700 30-06 a while back that some, apparently short, guy, had cut the stock down by a inch or two. i put one of those limbsaver pads on just to extend the stock, wow, it almost does away with the recoil, I am really impressed.
I really want a .35 Whelen one of these days, I just keep finding other stuff I want too

DGK