Gotta say, although just 2 buck and a doe with it in the last 2 yrs, so not like it's been 2 dozen to go off of, but so far I'm thoroughly impressed overall with the performance of the 35 Remington.
Albeit at higher speeds then normal being I'm running it through a 760, but impressed by it none the less. 2 of the deer were over 100 yds in the woods, the third just under.
1 was hit straight through tight behind the shoulder on both entrance and exit with a 200 gr RNCL, locked up for a bit then rolled down hill. One was hit in the shoulder with a 180 Speer FP, exited base of the neck. Straight down. One was hit lengthwise of the vitals with the 180 Speer bullet on a hard quartering away downhill shot. Entered high and back, exited right behind the opposite shoulder. That deer made it I'm guessing 60 yds. First 30 yds tore off like nothing happened, next 20- 30 stumbling through tops trying to stay on the uphill side of a logging road, splashing blood out both sides.
Second thing I'm impressed with it by, is back at the skinning shed. Extremely easy on the meat. Where 2 of those deer were hit is one thing, I was very pleased with the lack of damage, but also no major bones were hit. The deer where it was hit in the shoulder and exited the neck, I haven't used a normal cartridge/caliber of any size in my deer hunting yrs where that shot wouldn't of made a mess of some sort. I opened up the shoulder and took the back of my knife and scraped out a coagulated puddle of blood clot, but there was no surrounding blood shot. I cut up that whole shoulder for hamburg. Same thing on the neck exit.......used that meat right up to next to the hole.
Based on what I've seen so far, if I was using a larger cartridge in 35 caliber for woods hunting whitetails, I'd down load it with similar bullets just a speed step above what I'm shooting now. Why fix what works?
Albeit at higher speeds then normal being I'm running it through a 760, but impressed by it none the less. 2 of the deer were over 100 yds in the woods, the third just under.
1 was hit straight through tight behind the shoulder on both entrance and exit with a 200 gr RNCL, locked up for a bit then rolled down hill. One was hit in the shoulder with a 180 Speer FP, exited base of the neck. Straight down. One was hit lengthwise of the vitals with the 180 Speer bullet on a hard quartering away downhill shot. Entered high and back, exited right behind the opposite shoulder. That deer made it I'm guessing 60 yds. First 30 yds tore off like nothing happened, next 20- 30 stumbling through tops trying to stay on the uphill side of a logging road, splashing blood out both sides.
Second thing I'm impressed with it by, is back at the skinning shed. Extremely easy on the meat. Where 2 of those deer were hit is one thing, I was very pleased with the lack of damage, but also no major bones were hit. The deer where it was hit in the shoulder and exited the neck, I haven't used a normal cartridge/caliber of any size in my deer hunting yrs where that shot wouldn't of made a mess of some sort. I opened up the shoulder and took the back of my knife and scraped out a coagulated puddle of blood clot, but there was no surrounding blood shot. I cut up that whole shoulder for hamburg. Same thing on the neck exit.......used that meat right up to next to the hole.
Based on what I've seen so far, if I was using a larger cartridge in 35 caliber for woods hunting whitetails, I'd down load it with similar bullets just a speed step above what I'm shooting now. Why fix what works?
