Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles The .350 RemMag...

...seems about dead in the water...

The .350 is my favorite hunting round. Love short action bolt guns and this is about as much "fun" as one can pack into a short action package. Once in a while I'll go over to GunBroker and see what is being sold and what kind of money they are getting...this last couple of times have been depressing.

Like new possibly never fired Remingtom Model 600...starting price $800 and has been through a couple of cycles. Looking at the completed auctions nice guns were sold, with scopes sometimes, for less than $800.00. One Seller however put one out at $1200 and someone bought it..... A few years ago a nice but well hunted with 600 would bring $900 and a like new one $1200.

Remington Custom Shop 7KS and 7MS...$1000-1400...these guns have been discontinued and sold for $2600. There is a mint 7MS on there now with a price tag of $1400 with no takers. One dealer has a consignment 7MS with 1.5-5 Leupold and some reloading components that his customer wants $3900 for...nutz..

Nice Model SEVEN CDLs are selling in the $450-600 range as are Ruger 77MKIIs.

The biggest sellers are the old Remington 700 BDLs...nice ones are selling for $1400-1600 just for the collector value.

Ammo wise...Remington and Nosler have dropped the round...ammo is bringing $60-90 a box. Only custom makers Like Reed's or Connely's offer ammo and who knows how much longer they will be able to get brass...

Truly sad as this a great round for any kind of hunting and guns can be made small and light....

Bob

Just buy an action and have it barreled.. I agree with the round though - it IS a good thumper..

I have four already...there are plenty of nice ones out the for cheap money right now...

Bob

I looked at the 350 Rem mag when looking for a short,light thumper, but the lack of ammo and brass caused me to quickly move on to something else.

My 350RM,700 Classic is one of my most accurate rifles with 225 and 250gr loads.

Essentially a short action Whelen and a real thumper, too. If you reload and have brass, there isn't much not to like.

Looking at downloading with some 200 Hornady FTX bullets for my dad's M7 CDL. It's a well balanced and awfully pretty little rifle, but full-power loads kick too dang much. And the case length nullifies the prospect of Accubonds, so we're looking at the FTX as a medium-speed option. Should be flat enough for 200-250yd shots when pushed at 2,500-2,600fps with RL10x. Should tame recoil a bit too.

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Agree that it's sad to see any great cartridge die. But have to say I can understand it. Several years ago I started falling out of love for the bigger boolits.

Had a Ruger 1-B in 45-70, two M700's in .35 Whelen and one in .358. All gone. 30 cal is as big as I go anymore.

All three of my 35's would group inside an inch at 100 yards but most of those loads opened up badly at 200. The Federal 225 TBBC .35 Whelen ammo would put three in an inch at 100 and three in about two feet at 200! Speer 250 grainers grouped well at 200 yards. But launched at 2400 fps and zeroed at 200 yards they were like 2.8" high at 100 and WAY high at 150 yards...don't remember the exact amount but it was enough to make a good shot into a bad one.

Along the way I also observed that deer seemed to die just as quick when I chute 'em with a 6.5x55...so the 35's got hunted less and less until they were voted off the island.

They are great stalking/woods rifles. Here is mine with original scout scope set-up.

I love my Model 7 KS. It is amazingly accurate and a sweet little rifle off of a treestand. Have taken a few black bears with it and now I wouldn't leave home without it when I bear hunt every year. 200 gr TSX's and TAC get the job done.

I used the 200gr TTSX with TAC in my 358Win carbine on a Manitoba bear this spring. First time I ever had a bang-flop on a bear. Next time I load for my 350RM, I'm using that bullet also with TAC.

Sakoluvr--got a load you would be willing to share?

WN

62.0 grains of TAC, 200 grain Barnes TSX, Rem brass, Fed GM215M primers, and a COL of 2.814 ~2800fps

Only one I ever caught. From a 350 lb black bear.

Midway is still listing the Nosler 225 partition load as available.

As little as I've been using mine I probably have a lifetime ammo supply on hand with 200 and 250 gr factory ammo plus some of the Nosler. Some of the factory stuff is over 30 yrs old but seems OK. I test a few rounds every decade or so.

Thanks, Sakoluvr. Appreciate the info.

Can't wait for the next bear hunt, now.

I truly regret never having purchased a rifle chambered in that.

I reload for mine, but have 400pc of brass,at least that many 225gr partitions and 150rds of factory 200gr Remington loads. That should be plenty good enough for my use, or until I decide to sell it. I have a 700 classic bedded in a titanium takeoff with a kahles 1.5-6 on it. I love that little rifle!

whoa, dude...

Mine is a Ruger with McMillan Rhino camo.

Nice to see so many CF members who use the .350...

My first .350 was a Remington 700 Classic followed by a very nice 600. A few years later a customized Ruger stainless 77MKII with the barrel cut back to 18.25" and open sights added.



Bought a NIB Remington 660 barreled action (who knew Remington sold these) that had been sitting in the store room of an Alaskan gun shop for 40 years. Later found a Model 600 stock for it. It sat around uncompleted for a while when Ken (firearms44) bought it from me, finished it, shot it and then sold it.

Then there was a full custom 600 that someone put a LOT of money into...sold that to KenTheRemingtonMan on GunBroker.



About that same time Ken found a mint 7KS on GunBroker with a BuyNow of $800.00 that he let me buy. It is my favorite hunting rifle of all time. 7# loaded with sling..




The last one in the door is a Montana Rifle Company stainless 22". Someone in Michigan bought the barreled action from MRC and had his smith fit it to a B&C stock. He killed a bear in Alaska with it, moved to Alaska and then sold the rifle to do a custom .358 Norma Mag. With the longer Winchester style action the bullets can be seated way out creating a lot more powder space.




The two Remingtons get the same load...220 Speer/60.0 grains of Winchester 748. 2660 froma 22" and 2530 from the 18.5"/600. I have taken three deer with that load and my friend three black bear with his Remington 673. Five shots were pass-throughs and one got caught in a bears hide. The bear was about 380# and standing at a bait barrel back to my friend. The bullet hit the bear in the shoulder, broke the bone, passed through the shoulder meat, lung, heart and stopped against the hide perfectly mushroomed.




Put original 60s vintage Leupold M8-2X scopes in Leupold Detacho Mounts on the .350 and matching .308...




The .350 is too good to die...

Bob

I should put up my second .350