35 Rem and RCBS 35-200-FN

[geezer56]

Got one saturday morning. Smallish boar about 120 lbs. Came in to the feeder at 7:15. Rifle: CVA Scout, 35 Rem, Stainless. Load: R-P brass, Tula LR primer, 38 gr. H 335. Boolit: RCBS clone from NOE, sized 0.360, at 208 gr lubed and checked. Alloy: 50-50 COWW and plumbers lead. Earholed him at 40 yds. Exit hole about an inch in dia. Broke his neck, and didn't lose any edible bits. It was coming a young Noah at the time, so no pictures.

[Prodigal Son]

Good to go!

[largom]

Got to love them 35 Remy's.

[white eagle]

good job
I use the same boolit in my 358 win

[richhodg66]

That's a good bullet on my .358 and has shown promise in one .35 Remington I've tried.

How do you like that CVA Scout?

[GooseGestapo]

My RCBS mold throws to 220 gr. Perfect boolit. I found that 39.0gr of BLC2 is the "magic" combo for mine. Got a doe at ~105 yds last fall.
I'll probably never buy another jacketed bullet for the .35Rem.
With a drilled hollow point, it's like a "Nosler partition" without the $.$$ price tag.

[geezer56]

I love the CVA. It is short, light and accurate. It does need to be throated. I have to seat projectiles deep to make them work. Other than that it is great.

[Blammer]

Good deal! glad to see you getting out and about instead of working 80+ hrs a week. :)

[fishnbob]

I love the CVA. It is short, light and accurate. It does need to be throated. I have to seat projectiles deep to make them work. Other than that it is great.

I have an Accurate mold that I had to seat deep or trim the brass about 0.100" to make chamber. I bought a RCBS 35 200 FN and it chambered perfectly with the brass at the prescribed "trim to length". Both shot fine. A great caliber for the buckskins!

[strebort]

The RCBS 35-200 is an excellent hunting bullet. My son took his Elk with it in a Marlin 35 Remington at a lasered 198 yards. Rifle with receiver sight two shots. One complete pass through, other lodged in off side leg. Elk traveled maybe 10 yards.

[Yodogsandman]

Sure wish NOE would make those 35-200 (RCBS) molds again!

[35Whelen]

Pretty sure he still has this mold

http://noebulletmolds.com/NV/product_info.php?cPath=35&products_id=510&osCsid=himeg49kbjr9orgbqqq8stuie6

[Yodogsandman]

Nope, Just 2 ea 2 cav PB, 1 ea 4 cav PB and 3ea 5 cav PB in stock, no gas checked 35-200 at all for a long time.

[35Whelen]

Yup....I should have read the fine print closer. My bad. Has anyone emailed him and asked to make more? I have a four cavity and have yet to cast in it. Should make a point of getting it hot before fall is upon us.

[Yodogsandman]

There's a few requests for an inventory run. One is mine.

[outdoorfan]

You could always put a pb gc on the pb bullet, and run it full velocity that way. Pat Marlin sells those pb gc makers. Pretty handy.

[smoked turkey]

Gotta love those 35 Remingtons in an old Marlin with this 35-200 FN boolit. I have an old straight stock one that has never let me down using an alloy mix like yours geezer. Great combo for our whitetail here as that is all I have taken with mine.

[dualsport]

Anyone shooting them plain base? Seems like a good candidate for no gas check.

[dubber123]

My NOE HP casts at 220 grs. out of 50/50 WW-Pb. Air cooled, I shoot them at almost 2,200 fps from my firelapped 336, with excellent 50 yd. iron sight accuracy. (1/2"ish). NOE got this mold right. I hope future runs are to the exact same spec. This mold is also the best yet from my Freedom Arms 353 at almost 1,500 fps., grouping right at 1" at 50 yds. I think this is one of the best all time boolit designs.

[dualsport]

With a gas check?

[Larry Gibson]

My 35 Rem is a M91 Argentine with a 26" Shilen barrel pre-threaded for SR Mauser and short chambered from Brownell's. Easy to install but shoulder had to be set back a tudge for the slightly longer shank of the M91. Easy to then finish ream the chamber.

The 35-200-FN RCBS quickly became my chosen hunting bullet for the rifle. I cast it of COWW + 2% tin and then mixed 50/50 with lead and AC the bullets. They drop .3595 and are sized, GC'd (Hornady's) and lubed (2500+) in a .360 H&I die in a Lyman 450. I load them over 37 gr IMR4895 for 2150 fps. After loading they are HP'd to 3/16" deep with a 1/8" Forster HP tool. Accuracy is excellent to 200 yards (my self imposed max range for big game with cast bullets) and they are very deadly.

Target shows 2 groups at 100 yards and a 200 yard group.

Larry Gibson

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[geezer56]

To all that have asked. This is from a NOE mould. They weight 209 gr. with a GC installed, sized and lubed. I use a Lee push through sizer lapped to 0.3595, then lube in a 0.360 Lyman die in the old 45. It is minute of drink can at 100 yds, off the bench it does about an inch at 75 yds. That's how far it is from the driveway to the creek bank at my own personal little range. I use 38.0 gr of H 335, more than that opens groups up. Less just seemed silly because 38.0 shot so well. In the jungle where I hunt, 60 yards is about the limit for vision, so there is no need to stretch it.

[fatnhappy]

My 35 Rem is a M91 Argentine with a 26" Shilen barrel pre-threaded for SR Mauser and short chambered from Brownell's. Easy to install but shoulder had to be set back a tudge for the slightly longer shank of the M91. Easy to then finish ream the chamber.

The 35-200-FN RCBS quickly became my chosen hunting bullet for the rifle. I cast it of COWW + 2% tin and then mixed 50/50 with lead and AC the bullets. They drop .3595 and are sized, GC'd (Hornady's) and lubed (2500+) in a .360 H&I die in a Lyman 450. I load them over 37 gr IMR4895 for 2150 fps. After loading they are HP'd to 3/16" deep with a 1/8" Forster HP tool. Accuracy is excellent to 200 yards (my self imposed max range for big game with cast bullets) and they are very deadly.

Target shows 2 groups at 100 yards and a 200 yard group.

Larry Gibson

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Every time you post those photos my heart races like I just met a supermodel with a wardrobe malfunction.

I've always thought those mini -mausers chambered in 7.62 rooski shorty ought to have a .35 remington option, especially so when remington franchised the line. It's a shame remington seems to have abandoned such a fine cartridge.

Back to the OP, the SAECO 200 is just as good a boolit as the RCBS 200 in my 336.

[dubber123]

With a gas check?

You posted right after me, so I will assume it was directed my way. Yes, my mold is a GC design. I have never had much success over 1,500 fps. with a plain base unless paper patched.

[dualsport]

Thanks, that what I was wanting to know.

[dubber123]

Something just jogged my memory, I do have a 50-90 with an exceptionally smooth barrel that shot very well with no leading at a bit over 1,900 fps. with plain based boolits. That is the only exception thus far. I do confess I haven't tried any fast plain base from my .35 since I lapped it, it may do ok.

[Werndl]

Love that Boolit, shoots exceptionally well out of my 1953 336sc over Re 7.

[Dinny]

I have a 35 Rem project in the works. I'm gonna have to try some of these!

Thanks, Dinny

[mwells72774]

Question for the marlin owners.

Is there a leading issue with the microgroove?

[jlchucker]

I haven't had any in my 30-30's, 35 Remington, or 45-70. Don't know about any other microgrooves because these are the only ones I've tried. Your boolits have to fit the barrel on your rifle--that would be my main concern in any of my rifles, micro or not.

[Djones]

Question for the marlin owners.

Is there a leading issue with the microgroove?

seems my micro groove 35 Rem Marlin and micro groove 357 1894c are two of my favorite cast bullet rifles. I shoot the Lee copy of the 35-200 sized to .360" on my 35 and NOE360-180 wfngc in the 357. Both are shooting at jacketed velocities. Love my 35 cals

I never clean the bores in either rifle.