Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles .35 Whelen vs .338-06?

I pondered that same question many moons ago...so my game plan was why not just build one of each?

after all, 30/06 donor rifles are a dime a dozen... plentiful..

so I started out with the 338/06... and picked up a Brand New Model 70 post hunting season in Butte Montana for $250.00

I had the barrel rebored to 338/06 from the 270 barrel that came on the rifle..

after playing with it, and hunting with it... I never built a 35 Whelen... just saw it duplicating the 338/06...

so that is why I would go 338/06... my original motivation was the bullet selection from Hornady..

If I had built the 35 Whelen first.... then I would never had built a 338/06....

not enough difference between either to pick one over the other...