358315 in my .35 Rem

[avogunner]

Yeah, I've loaded/shot the RCBS "gold standard" in my rifle and it does shoot great but as I only have the Lyman mold, I've been experimenting to see what she'll do.
I settled on 748 a while back and this is with 33gr. Though I haven't chrono'ed it yet, I'm pretty tickled with the results. By the way, my rifle is a 1967 made 336. I paid $80 for it in1977 - a princely sum to a 16yr old.
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[Yodogsandman]

Nice shooting! Will have to try that load.

[richhodg66]

That's a good group. Maybe I need to revisit that bullet.

That was the mold I first bought for my .35 Remington years ago and it shot pretty well with the light loads I used, seems like I used 8.5 grains of Red Dot or similar at the time. Seems like nose portion could be a bit bigger for best accuracy, the design seemed to be more about functioning through lever guns than for best fit and accuracy.

Haven't used it much in .35 Remington yet, but in the .358, that RCBS bullet is the one. I have the NOE version.

[Guesser]

I had really good results with that bullet cast of WW and loaded for use in a Super 14 Contender. But that was over 20 years ago, the barrel and the mould are long gone.

[shredder]

I have that mould for my 35 Rem as well. Also the "Gold Standard" mentioned. Though it pains me to admit it here, the 358315 actually is easier in the rifle and shoots slightly better. Easier in the rifle means that this boolit does not hard engrave when I close the bolt on a round crimped in the crimping groove like the gold standard does. As a round nose design though, I can not hunt with it so the RCBS design gets the nod. For targets and fun plinking I do like the Lyman.

[Prodigal Son]

I'll have to try that load too! Nice group

[jrmartin1964]

... the design seemed to be more about functioning through lever guns ...

As it happens, Lyman's No.358315 was designed to function through a semi-auto rifle...specifically, Remington's Autoloading Rifle (later re-designated as the Model 8). At the time (1907) there weren't any lever action rifles available chambered for .35 Remington.
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[richhodg66]

As it happens, Lyman's No.358315 was designed to function through a semi-auto rifle...specifically, Remington's Autoloading Rifle (later re-designated as the Model 8). At the time (1907) there weren't any lever action rifles available chambered for .35 Remington.
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That's interesting. We tend to think of the .35 Remington as a lever gun cartridge, but it was introduced in the model 8. It's a great round, should be more popular than it is.

[jlchucker]

Way back when I was first starting to cast my own, I didn't own a 35 Remington but my Uncle did--a half-magazine Marlin that my youngest brother now owns. I bought this same Lyman mold and loaded up a box of ammo using Winchester 748 powder--I seem to remember it being right around the same load as Avogunner used. The first group I tried with my uncle's rifle was pretty close to Avogunner's, too. Since then, I've loaded plenty of 35 Remington ammo with this mold as well as the RCBS 200 mold--with nearly identical results. There's plenty of published data for using 748 powder--and it seems to work really well with these boolits.

[Yodogsandman]

I used to cast that boolit for my young sons to shoot in their .35 Rem Marlins. I used 11.0 gr Unique and they shot a lot of one inch groups at 100 yards with it. Great training load. Never did try to push it, the Unique load was about 1100 FPS.

[RU shooter]

Yep they shoot real well at less than top end speeds , get them up around factory jacketed speeds they get squirrelly due to the nose being totally unsupported mine mics out at .346 right at the base of the nose . A few folks on here have lapped the nose out bigger (.350) and got them to work at top speeds . Another option would to get a HP conversion done on the mould and would shift the balance point more rearward .My old ideal sc drops them heavy at 215 gr with ww/soft , thinking of filing a nice wide FN on them and using it this deer season .

[izzyjoe]

The 35 Rem is about as good as you can get for a deep woods deer rifle!