Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Single Shots NEF in .35 REM?

Just found out that they made/make this caliber. Have any
of you owned or handled one? Never been a big fan of NEFs
and H&Rs but this seems like a cool little set up.

If you have the trigger worked, mine is 3 3/4lbs, they are actually a completely different gun. I have a single receiver with 3 barrels, 2 of which I fitted myself, 243 original, 30-06 and 450 Marlin. I wanted a gun that covered the gamut and I think this is it.

If you buy it, I think you will be happy as long as you understand it's limitations, which are few.

TY cowboy

I was thinking of one in 30/39 for a truck gun.. I have two, and both are rimfires, 17 HMR and 22 Mag...

If I can pick up one in a cenbterfire action I have thought seriously about a 1 pair of barrels in 17 Hornet and 17 Fireball...

both would make a handy truck gun...

I have had a few an still have 4 or so thier great guns .Better then TC an my book

Jericho
Just checked the list of barrels available only 35 is 35 Whelen. Just though I would let you know. Guess you will have to find a used one. Cheers NC

I have wondered over the years, what happened to NEF? Are they still around? Were they just a short lived "stump sprout" from H&R? Are they considered superior to H&R? Were they a transition from H&R until Marlin took on the brand?
I do take exception to the comment, "better than T/C's" but then again, I have several T/C's and no NEF's nor H&R's.

Actually I do have one H&R. A 9-shot revolver that has received no special treatment but still looks newish. It's double digit double action trigger pull contributes to its "throwing rocks" accuracy, but it always goes bang.
Lou M

I have two, both rimfires. One is a .22 Magnum without sights and has the raised Monte Carlo style stock. The trigger breaks at about 3# and is a tack driver... Paid $125.00 for it and a Leupold 4.5-14 scope is on board....that is about as much disparity one can have in the old saying put more money into your scope than your gun.

The other is the standard .22 rifle with open sights. The front sight is a tad too tall and will not zero but just have not gotten around to trimming it down yet. The trigger is in the 6# range but does break very clean. Bought a Weaver scope base for it but the idiots at Weaver only put two slots in the base instead of the 6 slot base that they probably sell to NEF that is on the .22 Magnum. As a result the scope I wanted to put on it can't be adjusted to the proper eye relief without more cuts being made in the base.

Has anyone ever had one of the barrels rebored to a different caliber?

For the money paid for them they shoot very well...Bob

I thought about going from .357 to 35 rem but that wouldn't be a rebore

I had one in 17HMR. Shot well and worked well. My only complaint is that if you didn't wipe it off with an oiled rag right now it would rust while you looked at it. I do like the platform though. Simple, tough, and shoots well for what it is. Although I wouldn't venture into heavy recoil chamberings as they tend to be light and hammer the crap out of you if you aren't careful. The second NEF/H&R platform I shot single shot was a 10 ga.....ouch.

If you find a pair of those 30/39s, holler. I want one also.

30/39????

i HAVE OWNED SEVERAL, AND THEY SHOOT GREAT

I imagine the recoil from a 35 REM is going to be pretty stout
in a little single shot rifle.

not at all. A buddy of mine has one and it's very pleasant. Some of the .35Whelens with synthetic stocks will slap you naked and hide your clothes..

Recoil in the larger calibers isn't so bad in these little guns. I have one chambered for the 45/70 Government. Shooting commercial ammunition it's a pussycat. I handlaoded a couple boxes for it. Off the top of my head I dont recall what the details of the load, but I do remember that they were just a bit shy of the .458 win mag loads in velocity from the same Hornaday book I was using. Those were stout kickers but managable.

I have the 12ga rifled slug barrel version of this gun. That bastard is the hardest kicking gun I have ever fired. 5 rounds off the bench trying to sight it in and I gave up. Too painful.

"slap you naked and hide your clothes" thank you Schoolmarm,
you made me laugh right now and I really needed it!

glad to help...

I have fourteen centerfire Handi rifles, plus H&R/NEF rimfires and shotguns. They're all great guns.

H&R went broke and NEF took it over. Marlin bought them and Remington bought Marlin and brought back the H&R trade name.

I didn't fool around with the .35 Remington. I have two .357 Maximums and reamed a third .357 Magnum to .356/.358. Both calibers work interchangeably in the break action Handi. In a reamed .357 or .35, the extractor is changed to a modified .30-30 extractor. In a Handi, you can also load .356 brass to .358 levels. The frame will withstand much more pressure than either delivers. The .356 head spaces on the rim and the .358 on the shoulder. Both give you much more than a .35 Remington and almost what a .35 Whelen will yield.

If you can't find a .35, get a .357 and go wherever you want from there....357 Maximum, .35 rem, .356/.358.

I almost forgot to mention, you can wring .35 Remington performance out of the .357 Maximum in a Handi. I run a 180 gr. Hornady SSP at 2200 fps plus. Check out the info below for more details. Also, search the GBO website for more info on the Maximum.

http://www.go2gbo.com/forums/index.php/topic,26264.0.html

Good luck,

Pete

There is a new 35 Rem. barrel on Ebay. It's not mine. Just passing the info along.

Anyone out there have one in 500 S&W ? Thinking it would make a nice little doe thumping brush gun!