The gun shop I hang out at has a interarms 35 Whelen, I know it's a necked up 30/06 but I've never owned one. Anybody shoot a 35 whelen and how u like it
I hunted Elk and Moose for 3 decades with my custom built m700 35 Whelen, precision Douglas bbl and it was a tack driver. I mainly loaded 225gr for out West but when hunting Grizz country, I'd load 250gr pills. In 3 decades I never needed a second shot.
35 Whelen is a very versatile round that you can load up or down for your needs.
Though I no longer own my 9.3 if I truly had only one rifle to HAVE to live/get by with and ammo wasn’t an issue it would be either the 35 Whelen or the 9.3x62 especially if I was living up North.
I bought an older Winchester 670 and had it re-bored to 35 Whelen and then Magna-Ported to eliminate muzzle jump. I'm very pleased with this project but I won't ever hunt deer with it because way too much energy for medium sized animals.
I had one fallow me home , a CVA single shot, I have loaded ammo for it , and want a day at the range. I still have no idea why I got it I have a .338-06 , 9.3x62mm Mauser and .375 H&H Mag. but it looked liked fun to play with.
Mine is build on an FN Supreme Mauser action and seems to like the 225 grain Noslers. I really like it. The recoil isn't bad and it is accurate. I see you are another Missouri guy. I would think the Whelen might be fun on the feral hogs we have running around.
I had to leave for work for 8 days and while I was gone my buddy sold the 35 Whelen . I forgot to tell him to put it back for me but I've got plenty of guns to hunt with. I live in rice country south of poplar bluff and so far we haven't got the hog problem yet
Kind of an interesting sidebar, some of the guys over at the CMP site have taken M1 Garands and had the old barrels re-bored to 35 Whelen. They put an adjustable gas port on and have a pretty neat semi-auto in a hard hitting caliber. I'm surprised no piggies around Poplar Bluff. They are about an hour south of us in the Piedmont area. A friend has a cattle ranch/farm down there and he has declared war on them. He has the Conservation Dept. trapping them and he has put together an AR10 with suppressor and night vision. He is pretty serious about getting rid of the pigs.
I've heard there's a bunch of them around Greenville and around the lake but I live in naylor that's only 5 miles from the state line and I don't figure there's enough woods for them here
I had a 35w on a 03 action before Rem standardized it. I didn't have it built, bought it at auction. I've had a couple since on trades but the only one I shot was the custom 03. It was a very accurate rifle and would do 1" at 100yds average. I never had a 350mg in other than 600 series rifles but they weren't near as accurate as the 35w. I might not be a fair comparison against a standard rifle. If I wanted a 35 in this power range I would go for the 35w over the 350mg.
Late-comer to this thread, but I have some good input... I have been intrigued by this cartridge's history and power for years, and finally spec-ed out a Shaw Mk-VII bolt gun in late 2018. Bought factory ammo of 6 different flavors (Buffalo Bore, Barnes Vortex, Remington Core-Lokt, Federal, etc.).
Very erratic, very disheartening results. 100 yards groups struggling to get below 2 inches, no rhyme or reason to the zero wandering all over the place, no consistency beyond 200 yards. I was ready to take the scope off and start from scratch,concluding that the Leupold VX-5 CDX was jumping around or damaged.
Then, just before starting the tear down... Tried one last flavor of factory ammo; Nosler Trophy Grade, 225 grain.
Wow.
Fired one shot to clear the bore, then produced this 3 shot group at 100 yards. .63 MOA from a historic caliber that can't leverage modern high BC bullets. An hour later the rifle was hitting a 10 inch plate at 415 yards, and I don't even have the correct CDX turret yet. I have not seen any other results like this from factory ammo, and I will be buying a lifetime supply once Nosler does another run.
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