Originally Posted by navlav8r
I’ve had several guys in our club tell me that my 35 Whelen has a distinctive sound.


Same deal with my wife when I was using a .338 Winchester Magnum with a 22-inch barrel to slay whitetails along a certain Montana creekbottom 30+ years ago. She would be sitting a few hundred yards away, and sometimes not only heard the bigger boom, but the thump of the bullet hitting the deer.

Dunno what all this means. Have killed a lot of big game, quite suddenly, with cartridges that made a lot less and (sometimes) more noise than that .338.

“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck