Was able to trade for a Marlin 336 in 35 Remington. My question is what mold size should I be looking at, and if you cast what mold works well for your 35. I will be PC'ing them if that makes a difference.
Was able to trade for a Marlin 336 in 35 Remington. My question is what mold size should I be looking at, and if you cast what mold works well for your 35. I will be PC'ing them if that makes a difference.
Thing nice about a 35 Remington is that it can be loaded down with 38/357 pistol bullets or pretty much to max with molds made for it. Its the standard 358 diameter. RCBS and Lyman both make a good gas checked 200 grain mold.
DP
The only mold you need is the RCBS 35-200-FN or a clone of it. Shooting lighter pistol bullets is fun. But the RCBS design is the one you want.
I have the Ranch Dog clone, 360-190-Rf, from NOE.
I load these for both, 35Rem Marlin, and 357 mag rifle.
HV
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I have the Lee/RD 359-190 but the NOE version is better, he also makes an awesome version of the RCBS 35-200. Marlin 336's w/ MicroGroove barrels like fat boolits, I think you'll find a .359 or .360 will do nicely whether its an RCBS or Ranch Dog design.
Awesome rifle, BTW. I lucked into a nice one a few years back and liked it so much I almost bought a twin to it a few months later. Sometimes I still think I should have snatched it up. In most parts of the country there is no finer CB hunting rifle than a 336 in 35 Rem, IMHO.
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I had one and it liked the RD 190 and 38 gr.H335 for a top load. The same boolit & 12.5 gr. Unique was great for low recoil. I also used a British .38 revolver boolit by Lee with the 12.5 gr. Unique load. It was a long round nose about 200 gr. plain base. They were almost giving the moulds away....
Thanks for the input fellas! Picked it up to use as a paper puncher for now (since ohio doesn't allow 35 Remington for hunting . . . Yet).
There are two molds I recommend for the 35Remington and 358 Winchseter.
The first is what has already been mentioned here the RCBS 35-200-FN
The second is the Lyman 358318.
I wrote about both of these in this thread:http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...end&highlight=
Another mold that would be worth taking a serious look at is the new 35XCB mold that I designed personally. It should be the most advanced, and versatile 35 caliber rifle bullet in history.
Precision in the wrong place is only a placebo.
The Marlin 336 in 35 Rem is a fine cast boolit rifle! Back 20 years ago, I bought both of my sons Marlin 336 35 rem's for deer hunting. I fed them with Lyman 358315 200gr boolits and 11.0gr Unique. Both boys could hold 10 shot groups at 100 yards into an inch. They shot them by the hundreds!
I found that pistol boolits would not feed from the tubular magazine and had to be used single shot.
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