What can I hunt w/ 35 rem?

[mete]

While the 35s all work well ,35Rem, 358Win, 35Whelen, They never have been as popular as things like the 30-30 .But bigger holes are better and the 35s just do the job ,not caring about the hype of others.

 

[Sure Shot Mc Gee]

What can I hunt w/ 35 rem?

Anything considered Big Game at close range in the Lower 48.

 

[mavracer]

Apparently you can't kill an 8 year old zombie thread with one lol.

 

[Backroad]

I've hunted with my Marlin for years and find it safe to say that the .35 Rem will anchor any animal on the north American continent.

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[WVMountaineer]

With the Hot Core Speer 220 grain bullets, some AA2520, you can push them in the 2300 fps range according to men on another forum. These were chrono'ed results. Some were going even higher. Folks, that is a freight train. It was rivaling magnum cartridges that are surrounded by lore, with the energy it safely produces with these loads.

As a factory round or, as a loaded plain Jane bullet, you are going to look long and hard to find a harder hitting caliber for big game. In it's effective range, that bullet surface is so big and, the weight of them, equals hammertime. I've killed a lot of deer with them. FLAT. When you start pushing them, they become even more incredible on those through the body shots. It really thumps them.

I love the round. I hand load for it mostly but, still do shoot factory rounds out of one of the two I own. Both do great. Don;t let ballistic tales fool you. A bullet that big, weighing that much, delivers all of it's energy and, has lots more knock down power than those tables can take into account. Use them You'll love 'em. God Bless

 

[stagpanther]

I love the round. I hand load for it mostly but, still do shoot factory rounds out of one of the two I own. Both do great. Don;t let ballistic tales fool you. A bullet that big, weighing that much, delivers all of it's energy and, has lots more knock down power than those tables can take into account. Use them You'll love 'em. God Bless

Exactly the way I feel about the 358 win--which pushes the 35 even faster.

 

[reynolds357]

Even though this is an old thread: I believe the .35 Remington is about the ideal heavy woods deer hunting cartridge.

 

[Mobuck]

Something that's not too hard to kill and dumb enough to let you get fairly close.

 

[Old Bill Dibble]

At one time, the 35 Remington was the most powerful semi-auto hunting rifle available in North America.

That must have been a very short reign as the .30-06 came out in the same year.

 

[mavracer]

That must have been a very short reign as the .30-06 came out in the same year.

The Remington Model 8 came out in 08 the 30/06 wasn't available in a commercial semi auto till after WW2

 

[Old Bill Dibble]

True but did not the Model 8 come in .300 Savage well prior to the US entry in WWII?

 

[mavracer]

No not in the model 8, the 300 savage was available when they redesigned into the Model 81 in 1936.

 

[Picher]

The .35 Rem is a very capable cartridge, made even better by Lever-Revolution ammo.

The problem is not with the cartridge, it's with the sighting system that comes on the rifles. I've had friends who shot well on target not be able to hit a deer with the open rear sight.

One friend never got a deer, but shot at about 5 per year. He looked right over the rear sight. After I installed a receiver sight (and higher front), he hit a running deer at 50 yards in the woods. Thought he missed the first shot, so shot again. The first went through the heart and the second, the neck. Both were killing shots.

Another friend and shooting buddy shot five rounds at a standing buck, at about 40 yards. He missed, and the deer just stood there, looking at him.

Bottom line, get a receiver sight, a red dot, or low-powered scope on that baby before you miss or worse, wound a deer and have it run off!!!