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it's hard to find on the interweb thingy, but it is one of the first wildcats, the 35/30-30. Winchester screwed the pooch of not making the 35/30 factory rifle. i believe the 35 Remington cartridge would be in the dust bin of history, IF Winchester would have done 35/30, but they didn't.

the 35/30 ballistically comes close to the 35 Rem. where the 35/30 shines is the bullet selection, 250-280gr bullets. when i first got the 35/30, i was going to get 270-280gr WFN GC mold. but i already had a 200gr RCBS FN GC mold and no rifle in that caliber. i use 200gr RCBS FN GC and 2400/tuft of dacron going 1726fps and kills deer, 1 buck and 2 does were in my freezer. the buck was 53 yards and the 2 does were 20-30 yards away. after the shot, they will jog about 15 - 20 yards, stand there and then fall over. i could take take the bullet speed up to about 35 Rem level, but why bother. the recoil is nothing to talk about and the aperture is already set at 100 yards.

the brass, whether new or old, is easy to find. i'm told that 35 Rem dies are all that you need. i guess that whatever makes the .358" 180 to 200gr RN or FN bullets (Hornady, Speer....) still makes them? i do bullet molds and the alloy is either COWW and a smidge of tin or Lyman #2 and a smidge of tin or 10 lead and .1 or .2 lbs of tin. that is the way i was taught.

i use 35/30 CH4D dies and 30-30 Starline brass. i gave my youngest son the old 30-30 brass (Remington, Winchester, Federal...). JES Reboring does an awesome job on the rifle. i put on a Williams FP aperture sight because my eyes ain't what they once were.


shooting in the 35/30