I had the same thing last week, for my birthday, only it was the Federal .35 Rem. The email was titled "Product Now Available". I followed the email to the website and it said it wasn't available and now disc. I checked Federals web site and it says nothing about the 35 being discontinued. Just says only available in limited runs. Midways website now says the same thing aboutit being available in limited runs. I havent seen Winchester 35 Rem being offered by Midway for a couple of years now. I think Midway disc offering it not the vendor. I checked WInchester's site and it says nothing about being discontinued. Glitch at Midway?

 

I anticipate Marlin (Ruger) will be bringing both the .360 Buckhammer and the .35 Remington to market over the next year. The .35 Remington isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

 

The .35 Remington is NOT being discontinued, however it is moving from scheduled annual or every 2 year runs to intermittent, i.e., unscheduled. That means if you like or NEED the 200 grain bullets, buy when you find them. Personally, I doubt Marlin (Ruger) will bring out the 336 in .35 Remington as a standard issue, and it they do, it will be in coordination with a major ammo maker. I suspect it will be a limited run or Distributor Special. That is what Ruger did with the .358 Ruger American Rifle.

Last fall (2023) there was a LOT of .35 Remington 200gr. available in Pennsylvania shops and gunshows, but hardly any in Virginia as similar prices. Prices in PA ranged from $30-$80/box. A few years ago .35 Rem in 150gr. pointed was all you could get for a long, long time.

Ruger already has a number of rifles chambered in .350 Legend, I am not sure why they would go big for both a rimmed .360 Buckhammer and a rimless .35 Rem. for Marlin regular production, unless they want to go against Henry.

 

Winchester ran a large run run of the 200 PowerPoint within the last couple months. I only know because I bought five boxes simply to have the brass. Wasn’t cheap though. I just wish there would be brass out there. The .358 bullets likely aren’t going anywhere, but you’d think some of these outfits like Starline would start running .35 REM in their lineup, there is money to be made. But I’m pretty sure dozens, if not hundreds of us here on MO, have messaged them and gotten the same reply that they have no intentions of doing so.

 

Yeah, but I wrote Remington in 1973 as a kid and asked if they were going to quit making 16g shotguns……. Of which they replied “ they had no intentions of going so”…… so I bought a 16g 1100 with my “bag boy” money.

I just picked up 2 boxes of .35 REM Power point 200g and could have bought more but left the rest for someone else.

 

I believe MidwayUSA will list a product as "DISCONTINUED" if they (MidwayUSA) drops it from its product line, not necessarily that the manufacturer discontinued manufacture of the product. I have seen a few instances of MidwayUSA saying a product was discontinued when other vendors offered the product and continued to do so.

 

I can't imagine Midway disc. something they could make good money on. Could be a glitch. Worth a call to find out.

 

Am I being suspicious in thinking that it is just a gimmick, "Hey it's your birthday, here's a great present but we don't have any, come see us when the price is back up, and it's no longer your birthday".
This modern world is making me a cynical man, I'm sorry.

 

Look at the clowns who put lots on GB with the wrong pictures to go along with it. I recently ordered some 338 bullets off of the Speer website and the Flat base bullets had a boattail pic and vice versa. Is quality control that bad or is the workforce going to chit? Make sure you read all the details before hitting submit. Keep you from getting pissed later. Don't ask me how I know.

 

Midway marks items “discontinued” when they’re not selling the item anymore. It’s got nothing to do with the item itself getting discontinued from the manufacture.

 

Federal is supposed to be introducing the 35 Rem in the Hammer Down series. Keep seeing the notice "coming soon" .
Not saying the 35 is a bad cartridge, but it is its own case. Makes it unpopular for manufacturers.

DEP

 

Yeah, I'm still waiting too, but they have yet to produce a single box of that "new" 220 grain load, though...

You can't find a retailer anywhere that has ever had it in stock, nor can you find an actual photo of a single box of the 35HD anywhere on the internet.
The only "photo" out there is the original press release image, from Vista Outdoors...

 

I wouldn't think the manufacturers would drop the 35 Remington, as Henry has started making their lever rifles available in that caliber.

Seems to me that I've some items listed on Midway as "discontinued", but yet they're available from other vendors with no such notation. Like several others, I think if Midway stops selling that particular item, they list it as discontinued.

 

My son picked up a Marlin in 35 Rem last summer at a good price. I never had that caliber so it was nice to try something new. Nobody had factory ammo, but the owner of my local gun shop shot 35 and offered me a box from his stash (at a reasonable price). I decided reloading was the next step. ordered 35 Rem dies and a mold for a 200 gr bullet. Managed another 20 rounds of brass from Gunbroker (at an exorbitant price). A 3" group at 100 yards was the results of the first effort. Plenty good enough for deer, and proves that cast bullets can be just as good as jacketed.
Plan is to try other powders and find more brass. so far I like it!

 

Well from what I'm seeing online, live ammo is going for about the same price as used brass, on average. You might want to consider that route for a couple boxes. They usually say once fired, but who knows for sure.