I owned a Remington 760 pump chambered in 35 Whelen for awhile and while it was fast to operate, I never completely trusted it under Alaska peninsula conditions.
Exactly what led me to dispose of a custom 760 in .358 I had made. Between days of getting wet, then freezing at night, and the various bits of hemlock needles and other detritus that always find their way into an action around here the gun never seemed to feed, extract, and eject with the enthusiasm of either a model 70 or 336.
