Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting .35 Whelen for whitetail deer..................

I used a Whelen for 8 years moose hunting in Alberta. Used 270 grain bullets, bitterroot bonded cores, the first one to bond its jackets to the core. Shot my share of moose, couple of elk, white tails and mulies and a black bear.
All within 100 yards, did a fine job on everything.
Sold it when I ran out of bitter root bullets, since there were no good tough bullets out there at that time. This was pre Nosler partition era.
within 200 yards you can not go wrong with a Whelen.
I would not choose it as a primary deer rifle. It will do, but IMO there are better deer rounds out there with much lower recoil.