.35 Remington T/C

[Marlin Junky]

How well does the 14" twist of the .35 Remington T/C Encore handle boolits in the 150 to 220 grain range? Normally, I would prefer a 16" twist for such boolits and was wondering if there would be any practical difference in accuracy between the two twists given the same maximum loads.

MJ

[NickSS]

Te 14 twist should give good results with those bullets and better results with 250 and heavier bullets.

[sagamore-one]

I played around with a dozen different calibers in my contender and ended up with one barrel as being absolutely out standing ,the super 14 in 35 Rem.
This barrel has NOT found a bullet / load combination it does not like. I keep the pressure/ velocity up near the top of the scale . Plain base cast pistol projectiles shoot great out to 100. My range only goes 100. 150 gr jacket soft point rifle projectiles at around 2000 ft/ sec turn small rocks to powder . Two deer hit with this load dropped at point of impact. Yes I know 2000 ft/sec is a little warm for a 14 in barrel, but I just love it. It requires copious amounts of Reloader 7. Also... all loads were with magnum primers to assure ignition in the cold. I tried the super 16 tube and quickly sent it back to T-C as being near worthless. All it did well was make empty brass out of perfectly good ammo.

[Marlin Junky]

sagamore-one,

I'm only interested in cast boolits between 150 and 220 grains. What was the difference between the 14" long T/C barrel and the 16" long T/C barrel? Did they have different rates of twist? All the .35 caliber barrels currently available through Midway have a 14" rate of twist. I have a 16" twist 336 that shoots satisfactorily and a 12" Ruger Hawkeye that is a headache past about 1900 fps when both are shooting SAECO #352 at approx. BHN 14. The 14" twist should be OK for the 250+ grain boolits but I would like to shoot lighter boolits accurately too (with the same barrel).

MJ

[oldfart]

35 REM 1:14 is what t/c states for the 35 rem

[oldfart]

http://www.tcarms.com/firearms/chart_contender.php

[Larry Gibson]

sagamore-one,

I'm only interested in cast boolits between 150 and 220 grains. What was the difference between the 14" long T/C barrel and the 16" long T/C barrel? Did they have different rates of twist? All the .35 caliber barrels currently available through Midway have a 14" rate of twist. I have a 16" twist 336 that shoots satisfactorily and a 12" Ruger Hawkeye that is a headache past about 1900 fps when both are shooting SAECO #352 at approx. BHN 14. The 14" twist should be OK for the 250+ grain boolits but I would like to shoot lighter boolits accurately too (with the same barrel).

MJ

My .35 Rem rebarreled M91 Mauser has a 14" twist 26" Shilen barrel on it. I've shot 358156s up to 2500 fps (128,645 RPM) with pretty decent accuracy and 215 gr 30-200-FNs to 2400 fps. I consider the 14" twist to be the better for the .35 Rem. The 16" twist might be better if mostly 125-160 gr bullets were used and one wanted to push velocities up into the 2500 fps+ range. I don't so I find 37 gr of 4895 to give 100% loading density under the 214 gr 35-200-FN RCBS bullet with a velocity of 2122 fps and excellent accuracy (that is my definition of "efficiency"). I would be hard pressed to find a deer or hog that could stand up to that load.

Larry GIbson