(Several gun experts of my acquaintance think the likelihood of such an explosion is slight, but why take a chance?)Īs with any reloading project, after charging the cases, it is prudent to shine a flashlight into each and every case to see that they all have powder in them and that the powder is at the same level. The reason for this precaution is due to the possibility that when a round is fired, the nose of a bullet of a cartridge in the magazine might set off the primer of the round ahead of it. As with most cartridges to be used in rifles with tubular magazines, only roundnose or flatnose bullets should be used when loading the cartridge-unless you are using Hornady’s flexible-tip FTX bullets. (I used Hornady dies in my Redding T-7 Turret press to prepare the handloads for this article.)Ī few precautions must be heeded when loading rounds like the. is readily suitable for shooters to load their own ammunition, and dies, other tools, and accoutrements are available, as are bullets especially designed for the round. Shown are several powders that are useful in. 35 Rem.’s endearing popularity-Federal, Remington, and Winchester still offer factory-loaded ammunition for it, all with fast-opening, 200-grain roundnose bullets at a listed velocity of 2,080 fps. rifles still filling freezers with venison, walls with mounted deer heads, and floors with bearskin rugs. It is a reliable slayer of white-tailed deer and black bear at the moderate ranges at which these species are taken, it has plenty of power for the job, and it is adequately accurate for these hunting chores. It may seem odd that a cartridge shooting fat, heavy bullets at moderate velocities would still be popular 116 years after its introduction. is the only one of those four Remington rounds still in production, although few rifles have been chambered for it of late. 35 Remington handloads, LEVERevolution, Remington 9½ primers, and Speer’s 220-grain SPFN make a potent combination that produces a muzzle energy of 2,219 ft-lbs. While several powders and bullets are suitable for. And it was even chambered in the Winchester Model 70 bolt action, the Marlin Model 336 lever action, the Mossberg Model 479, the Savage Model 170 pump gun, and the Traditions Performance Firearms Outfitter G2 break-action single shot. went on to be chambered in Remington Model 14 and 141 pump actions, the Model 81 semiautomatic, and the Model 30 bolt action. 35 Remington handloads, and the author used these six (from left): Hornady 200-grain FTX, Hornady 200-grain RN InterLock, Speer 180-grain SPFN, Speer 220-grain SPFN, Sierra 200-grain RN Pro-Hunter, and Barnes 180-grain TTSX (not for use in tubular magazines). 35 Remington’s rim was slightly larger, at 0.460 inch, and the case was a little shorter, 1.92 inches versus 2.03 inches for the other Remington rounds. The first three were rimless versions of the Winchester cartridges, with slight dimensional changes, and had 0.421-inch rims. It was chambered for cartridges that were designed to be direct competitors of the M94’s cartridges. Remington noted Winchester’s commercial advantage and took steps to siphon market share away from “Big Red.” Remington didn’t have a lever action, but by 1906 it had the Model 8 semiautomatic rifle. All powder charges were weighed on an RCBS No. In those days, Winchester had the edge on the market with the popular Model 1984 and its fleet of cartridges. 30-30 Winchester by a few months, both of which were introduced in 1895. 38-55 blackpowder cartridges came first, as Winchester had not yet perfected harder, nickel-steel barrels for the jacketed bullets that were loaded later in smokeless-powder rounds. The early models were chambered in a suite of cartridges that covered the American hunter’s needs. Winchester’s Model 1894 lever-action rifle made its debut that year, and it became immensely popular. It is intended ONLY for barrels up to 14½".it occasionally sticks in the barrel of a 16" carbine.The early 1900s were an important period for cartridge development. This uses the same 100grn bullet but uses 8grns of powder and a small foam filler. Powder (25grns) looks like Vihavouri.ĮS also produce a round that will not cycle the action- different folks like different things. Accuracy is adequate for it's intended mission out to 100m or so.īullet is filled with Tungsten carbide- so not cheep. Has cycled reliably in all the rifles I have tried it in- 1960's vintage M16, Current M4, HK 416 and ruger Mini 14.īullet (on the new stuff) weighs 100grns (old was 127grn) which is marginal on stability. Out of 16" barrels like our test HK 416's.it is often just supersonic (1180fps) but a few civi spec 16 barrels it stays just below the speed of sound. It is designed to be subsonic in a mil spec 14½" barrel- it is. It works as advertised within a narrow window.
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