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I picked myself up a new Marlin336 35 Rem yesterday, along with 100 rounds of Federal 200 grain factory loads. I am thinking about loading 220 Speer flat noses for it, any opinions from experienced shooters of this caliber would be welcome. Anybody know what bullet Federal would have used in the factory 200 R.N. load ??
 
I loaded the 220 Speer in the 35 Rem for a trapper friend of mine up here. He carried and used it on everything we have up here, until his son lost the rifle in a canoe accident. He said that that bullet turned his Marlin into a magnum! :)

IMR 4895 is magic with this bullet.

Ted
 
Yes those are great responses, Spear 220gr, Spear 180gr and Rem 200grCL in that order are the only bullets for 35Rem that matter regarding the performance on game. Powder wise the Ramshot TAC, Acc 2520 and Acc2460 are your friends in my opinion. I have the same rifle made in 63' with Ballard rifling and having lots of fun with it. I would use Federal ammo for plinking and fireforming the cases.
 
x2 on everything that's been said. The "go to" bullet for the 35 Rem is the Remington 200gr SPCL. For higher velocities, the Speer 180gr SP gets the nod and for pile drivers, the Speer 220gr SP.

I believe Federal uses their proprietary 200gr Powerpoint bullet in their loads. The Federals shoot very accurately out of my '79 Marlin and are the cheapest of the factory loads that I can find.

For an interesting read on bullet performance and the potential of the 35 Rem in the Marlin action, check out the MarlinOwners forum and posts by member "35remington"

While the aforementioned jacketed bullets should be all you ever need (and really, the 200gr SPCL is enough) the 35 Rem is a great cast bullet caliber. Amongst the cast offerings, you'd be hard pressed to beat Ranch Dog's 190gr RNFP design.

My favourite powder for the 35 Rem is H4895, but I also like IMR3031. H335 makes for some fierce (and fun) muzzle blast.
 
Great responses I think I will start off with a healthy dose of IMR 4895 and the 220 Speer. I also have some hard cast 205 gas check slugs from the Bullet Barn, hopefully they will work with the Micro groove rifling ???
 
All I use now is the ranch dog 190 fp (bhn 16)with a good dose of imr 3031. Taken deer and black bear without issue. I find the 35 rem takes game without a lot of noise or fuss. A 35 rem in a marlin lever gun is perfection in this gun nuts mind :)
 
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Great responses I think I will start off with a healthy dose of IMR 4895 and the 220 Speer. I also have some hard cast 205 gas check slugs from the Bullet Barn, hopefully they will work with the Micro groove rifling ???
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Okay, 35 gr of 4895 nudged the 220s along at close to 2000 fps in my friend's 20" Marlin, and the cases lasted forever. :)

You will only find out if the BB 205 cast will work in your rifle by trying it. Some Micro-Groove barrels handle cast quite well, others not so well. :yingyang:

Ted
 
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Okay, 35 gr of 4895 nudged the 220s along at close to 2000 fps in my friend's 20" Marlin, and the cases lasted forever. :)

You will only find out if the BB 205 cast will work in your rifle by trying it. Some Micro-Groove barrels handle cast quite well, others not so well. :yingyang:

Ted
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Ted, I can do a little bit better in my Marlin's 20" barrel. I worked up to 2300fps safely with TAC and Speer 180gr FP with excelent accuracy and almost 2100fps with AA2520 and Speer 220gr FP as my back up cartridges just in case, not quite to the same point of impact but 1,5" lower at 50 steps is not concerning me whatsoever. My Lyman 200gr 358315 GC at 14HBR with AA2460 at 1700fps works like charm without leading while plinking to. I am using hot Win WLR primers with those ball powders. Great combo with kiling power out of proportion of the size and speed.
 
Sounds about right. Forgot to mention that I also load with the same hot Winchester WLR primers. They are accurate, and still light stuff up at -40, which he actually used the rifle at a few times. :)

Have loaded the 220 to well over 2000 with 4895, but the above load worked well, and didn't lean on the rifle too hard.

Ted
 
I had a 358 Winchester carbine once and loaded the 220 Speer in it to 2350fps. Very accurate. The bullet penetrated well but didn't do too much expanding at long range(200+ yards) on caribou. This would translate to 100+ yards at 35 Remington velocities.

That being said the link below is a report by a fellow that did a huge amount of work testing 35 Rem bullets. Very interesting. The 220 Speers loaded to 2200-2300 did ok at 200 yards on test media but that is with loads you won't find in any manual. Loaded to 1900fps they didn't expand too well.

http://www.suitorsgarage.com/gunstuff/35remington/35rempart2b.html


For what it's worth he picks the 200 Remington CL as the head of the class in 35 Rem.

"This bullet is suitable for almost everything you’d hunt with the .35, and even though the roundnose does not seem to connote “long range bullet” the Remington is the most likely to expand at distance of any of the handloading component bullets, save maybe the Hornady 180 SSP. The only other comment I can make is that the 180 and 220 Speer bullets outpenetrate it, but there are few situations where greater penetration than the Remington bullet offers is needed. For most uses I think it is the best bullet that can be used, and to top it off it is the cheapest of the 35 Remington game bullets. You cannot complain when excellent performance and low cost are combined in one projectile. "
 
Interesting, maybee I will try to find some component 200 Corelocks, I wonder how the Sierra 200 RN compares?
 
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