Thanks for info, V.S.,

Will do some more look-around. Prolly should go review Paco's articles. Looked at a new 1/2 stock Marlin .32-20 at Gander Mountain, yesterday, thinking of those quiet loads that Jim Taylor once described over on leverguns.com. After reading your heavy bullet experience, don't see any reason a .35 couldn't be that quiet.

It'd take care of some suburban-vermin, adequately. ;~`)

That's a whacker of slug you got there. I'd guess most charging 'possums, coons, feral domestics and the like are pretty much one shot stops. With a working 'crater point' in the end, you could prolly make some hide money selling the empty skins, seeing as everything inside of it would be blown out the backdoor by a frontal shot!!! ;~`) Good luck with y'r development on that.