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Actually the 180gr Speer FP is pretty much ideal in 35 Rem. rifles. The 150gr SP was made for single shot handguns.

DO IT, you won't regret it.

Actually Hornady made 180gr bullet for handguns.

First deer I shot was a doe that dressed 132#. I was in a stand on a small ridge, she down in creekbottom, and about 50 yards. I aimed to clip onside shoulder to see what would happen, deer quartering to. BOOM! and she's running toward me and loops to right...........slams into fallen tree and stretches a leg............done.
I did clip the shoulderblade, getting one lung and plowed a nasty hamburger type hole through the liver. Rib had a white spot on far side where a chink came out. Bullet had come apart, biggest I could find (chunk) through the soup was less than 50 gr pc.

Next yr, same load........131" 9 pt at 75 yards. Behind shoulder onside, front of shoulder exit on far side. Exit was larger than entrance. he flinched and ran hard for less than 75 yards, looks to have died mid stride.

BT was minimal at 20 yards. 40 yards it was pretty darn good.

Doe had no exit, high entrance.........so no BT.

Hornady 200 RN, loaded hot enough to almost stick in the Contender carbine (whatever that was). Had a guy cutting cases to meet our PCR spec, he loaded some up. I said they were too wimpy, next batch he cranked em up and they shot around an inch at 100 and had some bump. I told him that works for me!

Indeed.

You're not helping! lol

Congrats on the moose! That's my dream hunt.

You're not helping! lol

Congrats on the moose! That's my dream hunt.[/quote]

Thanks, Tom. I just posted the story and pics in the Canada Forum. Just wish I had my Whelen along this year!

Cut that sucker off! Nothing like a short 7600 for handling in the bushy stuff we tend to hunt in WI, MI and MN, especially out of a tree stand. 20" is good, 19" is better.

Well, hunting bud bought his 2nd 760 in .35 rem.
Dunno if he wants two or this one in better shape (have to be like new then).
If he goes to dump one it'll be in my safe.
If he takes too long to figure out which he likes best.......I might already have one.

Won't be long now--hoping for snow...

The 760's grandad, M-14 in 30 cal from 1923

My eyes hurt from seeing the scope on that rifle...but I understand. I can't see very well and would have to scope it. but man, what a sweet rifle tomk.

Grinning--yeah, it does look unnatural.

Not so local Gunstore I visited last Saturday has one LNIB in 35 remington hanging on the wall. It is very very tempting

tomk, nice rifle would like to hear how it shoots. I have been tempted by the Remington 14 and 141 models.

Will do. The 141 I had prior was dead nuts on with Remington 170g.

Will try some handloads of 150 & 170g

That rifle looks familiar, TomK. I picked up this 35 Rem last Spring. I had one years ago that I let a friend have when my eyes got where I couldn't hunt with irons. I refused to drill that old classic, but this one was already drilled, so....

That is a nice looking 141, Hook.

Was told they don't have a lot of meat to drill into to hold a screw for a mount on the topside, so you see some of them with additional exploratory drilling...:)

The 35 Rem is the perfect cartridge for the Remmy pump IMO. Mine is an 06 but has sentimental value so not changing anytime soon. I load 150 Hornady's at 2700 with a mild charge of RL15. Reduced blast gets you on target faster for full boom-chicka-boom effect😀

I have a beater 760 30-06 coming this week.

The pad is ill-fitted so will be replaced first. Bbl cut to 20" and a Williams FP receiver sight fitted next as well as the trigger tweeked. Will make a perfect gun for the ATV and a lot of other hunting for that matter.

I have a rem 7600 that I've owned for awhile. It has alway's been a good shooter. A couple year's ago I had Nathan Chesney cut the bbl to 18.5 inches, remount front sight and rework the trigger, and added a oversize safety. He did a great job. Sometime's wish I had him do 20 inches but to late now. Just mounted a leupold 1.5 to 5 and sighted it in today. Hopefully this year it make's meat.
Karl

So I have finally run across that pristine Remington 760 pump that I've been looking for for years in .35 Remington. The first one my son had a line on didn't work out.

This gun looks to be around 79 vintage, is pristine and appears to be unfired, although that can't be verified. Gun still has the filler screws in the receiver and not a scratch or mark on it. 22 inch barrel, not a carbine.

I will be picking it up somewhere around the 22nd of this month, and pictures will follow.

I have a set of Weaver Pivot mounts and rings for it, so now I need to find either an El Paso Weaver K1.5 or K2.5 with post and cross hair or a Denver Redfield of the same persuasion.

As soon as I get it I'll put some pictures up.

Sounds great enjoy!!