35 Remington in Marlin Micro-groove 336

[rr2241tx]

A Marlin 336 Micro-groove 35 Remington recently separated me from my allowance and I'd like to shoot plain base cast bullets. I'm on the GB for a Mihec mold, but that one may have gone to the Twilight Zone. Anyone have a recommendation for a mold/alloy that actually works in these rifles? Ideally, this will be my NRA Cowboy Lever Action rifle so a certain degree of accuracy to 200 meters is required.

[shredder]

I shoot the NOE copy of the old RCBS 200 FN. This is the go to boolit for 35 Rem. I cast mine from straight wheelweights, but ww and pure at 50-50 gives good results and expands a lot more on game. 38 grains of 748 for approx 2000 fps is what I shoot in my Remlin lever gun. 200 yards is a slam dunk with this load.

I do not know how this boolit will behave if you leave off the gas check and go plain base. I have had success doing that with other boolits in 30/06 and using a small charge of Red Dot.

[Lloyd Smale]

ive had good luck with the rcbs 200 grain bullet in a few different 35s I also have a 220 lfngc lbt mold that is just as accurate and has a bit bigger meplat and a bit more weight. I use that one mostly in my 356 though.

[.455 Webley]

NOE makes a copy of the 200 gr RCBS that has one cavity PB and the other GC, that may be just the ticket for you. Lee makes a 200 gr CG mold that may also work if your willing to work on it a little bit.

[northmn]

The standard formula for MG is to use a oversize bullet and harder alloy. For CB shooting if you have WW you could drop the bullets straight form the mold into a bucket of water and shoot as cast.

DEP

[Prodigal Son]

I have a 35 Rem. in a pre-micro groove I have not enjoyed much success with the Lyman mold 200 gr. It is a gas checked bullet but the GC I have is too small to go on when sizing so I shoot it as a PB! The GC are very old Lyman GC maybe they srunck ? Any how, have put it aside and working with other projects! Hope you find something works for you!

[Edward]

Invest in some hornady checks ,work great on any 35 mold I cast with and cheaper than new molds !

[Andy]

I have been shooting the RCBS 35-200 with and without gas checks, here's the info I can give. For the below info I am expanding with an "m" die and giving the absolute minimum crimp I can.

With gas checks I am using the max lyman manual load for IMR 3031, around 2050 fps, accuracy improved the closer I got to the max. With this load I average 1.5" at 50 yards for 5 shot groups off bags.

Without gas checks are my "plinking" loads and I use a nearly max load of unique for those, ending up at 1350-1400 fps. These hold a great group that averages .75-1" at 50 yards for 5 shot groups off bags. They also expand like crazy and make a perfect huge mushroom when they hit the berm, for whatever that is worth. I haven't tried to take this faster as I just wanted a cheap load that shoots poa at 50 yards for offhand practice and this hits very close with my scope/sight in.

Both these loads are just with 50/50 lube and coww+2% tin, air cooled. My bore is .3565 and I size to .358. I am seating to the leading edge of the crimp groove and partial neck sizing with a normal sizing die.

[TXGunNut]

I've had good luck in the past with the Lee/RD 359190 in my Marlin. NOE is very close to making a re-run of this mould. It's designed for the MG Marlin. In recent months I've had better luck with NOE's clone of the RCBS 35-200. I've always used GC boolits in 35 Rem but I know some folks load target rounds with PB pistol boolits. I wish I could help you with your goal of shooting to 200 yards, maybe even with a PB boolit. I know NOE makes PB versions of the 359190 and the 35-200 but I'm thinking a nice 180 gr PB boolit would be closer to what you have in mind.