I had a Savage 99 Series A in .358 Win for awhile. I never could get it to shoot the way I wanted, and I didn't want to mess with it so I let it go. I had a sub MOA .35 Whelen as well so it wasn't hard to say goodbye to the .358. Now I don't have any .35 calibers as I went a year without work because of an injury and I needed cash so the Whelen went down the road.
I never shot handgun bullets in either of my .35's but I did shoot some cast bullets. I pretty much stuck to 225 grain bullets mainly Hornady, but I never took any game with either. I'll have a .35 caliber again some day and it's kind of a toss up between the .358 Win and.358 Norma.
I have a 35remington, a 350rem mag, and the 358norma mag. But no Whelen.
I was debating about going for the browning, but i think it can be loaded pretty close to the whelen, and the lever attracted me being left handed.
that deer i saw get plugged a couple years ago he had a 225grain hornady in it. I think you could have passed a football out the other side of the deer, it really wacked it.
