35 Whelen Recommendations

[shell70634]

What bullet and load do you recommend for 35 Whelen for deer? I would rather not use gas check but want to kill effectively out to 150 yards. The rifle is a Rem 700. I plan on measuring the exact bore this weekend.
I've never loaded cast boolits for rifle other than 300 Blackout subsonic and I powder coated those.

[Yodogsandman]

Two have shot real good in my rifle. The NOE 360-230 RD and the 360-310, 35 Thumper.

EDIT: I've never tried to shoot these without a gas check or with them powder coated. So, YMMV

[shell70634]

I ordered my first NOE mold- 360-225SWC. Now I'll have something to play with. If it doesn't work well in the whelen I'm sure it will make a great plinker for the 336. Next month I will order the 360-310.

[murf205]

I ordered my first NOE mold- 360-225SWC. Now I'll have something to play with. If it doesn't work well in the whelen I'm sure it will make a great plinker for the 336. Next month I will order the 360-310.

If your Remington 700 has a 1-16 twist, and I'm pretty sure it does, you will probably be lucky to get accuracy out of it with a 310 gr boolit. The length of the 310 added to the fact that you will probably not be able to drive it fast enough to stabilize it will kill the accuracy. You will get a ton of penetration with the 225 anyway. Good luck and keep us posted. Pics are always welcome.

[Scharfschuetze]

The only boolit that I've used in mine (other than 357 revolver designs for plinking) is the RCBS 35-200 design with gas check. It's a very good design with an adequate meplat which should pretty well slay a deer to your projected range of 150 yards.

[Echo]

Lyman 358315 and RCBS 35-200-FP both go about 210-211 grains. The RCBS seems to be a little more accurate. twenty five yard 5 shot group, over 18.5 grs 2400...183276

[5Shot]

If your Remington 700 has a 1-16 twist, and I'm pretty sure it does, you will probably be lucky to get accuracy out of it with a 310 gr boolit. The length of the 310 added to the fact that you will probably not be able to drive it fast enough to stabilize it will kill the accuracy. You will get a ton of penetration with the 225 anyway. Good luck and keep us posted. Pics are always welcome.

According to the Berger Stability Calculator, it is stable down to Sub Sonic velocities. You can also drive it over 2000 fps with good accuracy. Yodogsandman and myself have had good success with it.

[Echo]

According to the Berger Stability Calculator, it is stable down to Sub Sonic velocities. You can also drive it over 2000 fps with good accuracy. Yodogsandman and myself have had good success with it.
Hmmm - a rifle will back off that 310 gr 2000 fps boolit Vigorously!

[TXGunNut]

I have used the NOE/RD 360-230 to good effect on a couple of deer and a large hog. I'd like to be able to use a plain base boolit for this application but I think at the velocities (2200+) where the 35 Whelen comes into it's own a GC is a good idea. I've also found that a heat treated boolit performs better than an air cooled boolit, at least in my rifles and a few others around here.
I'm sure this round can be loaded down to where a PB boolit will perform well but I wasn't able to easily do it with the components and rifles I had on hand.

[TXGunNut]

Hmmm - a rifle will back off that 310 gr 2000 fps boolit Vigorously!

My thoughts exactly! Some of the enablers around here tried to talk me into one of those thumper moulds but my 230 boolit is about all my shoulder wants these days. ;-)

[murf205]

According to the Berger Stability Calculator, it is stable down to Sub Sonic velocities. You can also drive it over 2000 fps with good accuracy. Yodogsandman and myself have had good success with it.

I tried some 300gr jacketed in my 350Rem and it went south pretty fast 4-6" groups. The 200's and 225's were really good and the 200 gr cast boolits that I bought from a caster off Gunbroker shoot great. It was not a 35 Whelen though, which from what I gather, is a very boolit friendly caliber. At any rate the 350 Rem is now a 358 Norma and still loves the 200 gr rnfp boolit. Glad you had success with the 310, that thing should shoot through a T-Rex!

[Loudenboomer]

Shell
I like heavy boolits in the 35 whelen. Tom at accurate made up the #36 275E for me a few years back. Does well with several powders at about 2000fps. Seems to like AA2230 the best. This is a small meplat nose rider that I sometimes Hollow point drill for hunting. For a plain base hunter Tom's 360 270c Looks like a good one but I've not tried it as of yet.

[shaman]

My initial cast bullet strategy was to take all my .358 firearms and work up a cast lead solution. Among the lot was a Rem 7600 in 35 Whelen. The kind folks here pointed me towards the RCBS 200 grain flat nose which I powdercoated. I spent 4th of July 2015 working up the load, hoping for a decent whitetail deer round. My results were good. I didn't get to 35 Whelen velocities, but loaded more like a 35 Remington with H4895, the rifle kept a good grouping at 100 yards.

Here are more details:
The Whelenizer Makeover (http://genesis9.angzva.com/?p=4902)