Originally Posted by hlg
I've had two Brown-Whelens both 23 in. barrels.Wore out the first barrel doing load development and have tried every load combination under the sun including the new wonder powders.Best velocity with 250 gr. Bullets was 2620 fps,this out a Lilja SS tube.
The Brown-Whelen is a Gibbs type improved version that theoretically should do better than a standard Whelen,mine obviously hasn't gotten the message.


Funny post, I would have quit at around 200 rounds is I couldn't find a load that would shoot in a Whelen. Mine shoots everything very well except the 200 gr.RN's made for the 35 Remington. Even those will put three under 2 inches every time. Wore out a barrel would have to been more than 3 thousand rounds!

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