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10-4 44mc, will do, need to have Wifey film it with her fancy phone and send it to beretzs, maybe he can post it here so we can all see it.

I called Brownells last week and ordered a little tune up kit for this rifle, got it all in yesterdays mail, new firing pins, springs and retaining pins, new finger lever plunger, spring and pin, 'Smith said bring it in, he's going to give her the onceover and issue a clean bill of health before season begins, this rifle will be ready to run another 63 years with this bit of tlc.

LINK TO niIgai recipes:

https://www.brokenarrowranch.com/Articles/TheSTA.htm

Plus many other game recipes!

NICE! Thanks crshelton, I saved that link in my favorites for wifey to review, looks like a hell of a lot of good eating there.

Nice. This is what I shoot in my 72 vintage Marlin. Crazy accurate. Missed a pig this year underestimating the distance. It will go on next years hunt.

https://makerbullets.com/proddetail.php?prod=358200LVR

Thanks Ed, and that will work, I'll bring my Marlin 35 Remington if I get to hunt pigs with you guys this Spring, I should have 5 or 6 deer, a cow elk and a big nilgai bull in the freezers with it by then, would love too see how the 220 gr Speer hot-cors hold up on a tough pig slammed good and hard up close.

You will be more than pleasantly surprised at the lack of recoil and amount of killing it does!

Pretty sweet deal there Gunner.

Thanks T, that rifle is ready and setting on go, I'm going to open a special private land doe only hunt over in Arkansas in the morning, will see how those 220 Speers work, I'll be going for both shoulders and/or shoulder quartering in or reverse, last rib in and up through and out the shoulder, bet I wont catch a bullet for weights and measurements.

Well CRAP! going to rain all day tomorrow, supposed to stop about 9 a.m. Sunday morning, I'll be there and waiting!

Gunner, any updates and photo's of the rig?


Good information on bullets here,

https://www.marlinowners.com/forum/...ullet-performance-part-ii-handloads.html

Hello RDW, DAMN, and Thanks! those 220 gr Speers looks amazing, near or far, as 200 yards is my max range with this rifle, my load leaves at 2175 fps with the same bullet.

And No Sir, haven't fired a shot, even though I could have already tagged out, you see, between the time I started this thread and now, some real HOGS of buck deer have shown up, I've held my fire on everything, including plenty of single legal doe deer and even one 17" 8pt, the big boys are going to be in play soon, maybe I can smack one.

If not, I'll have plenty of time to tag out on deer at the end of the season, plus, I have nilgai in December and cow elk in January, that old rifle will get a good workout for sure before Spring.

gunner up date went from 34gr to 36 gr of varget 3/4 inch at 70 yards went to 3/8inch at 70 yards . shot a doe at 40 yards sat broke both front legs sent bone shards in to the heart .low front shoulder shot . bang flop I like this 35

Good deal 44, Congrats, I'd have had something to report by now if that damn 180+ class monster hadn't have showed, I keep thinking he'll be behind a doe or running with smaller bucks,, damn he's a stud!

keep us posted gunner

Will Do.

Well, the little Marlin 35 Remington barked at it's first head of game in my hands this morning at 8 a.m. over in Arkansas, a beautiful mature 8pt buck deer was working a hillside under a stand of white oaks, 153 yards away the 220 gr Speer busted straight through both shoulders, it put his face in the leaves and he took off like a football lineman pushing himself with his back legs.

He stopped in some brush with only his raised hams exposed, I gave him one through both hams, down he went for keeps, a hell of a fun hunt on a breezy 26 degree Arkansas morning.

You guys are right about the 35 Remington and the 220gr Speer bullet, what a combo, that big bullet will really go to work and show it's stuff on nilgai and cow elk.

good deal gunner this year is my first time with a 35 I have used marlin lever guns for years went to bolt guns & high fps rounds but the joy was not their I am back home with my cowboy guns where I belong

Congrats on getting planted back at the Home20 44mc, I may take the little 35 back out in the morning, it's going to be a breezy 25 degree morning again, the bucks are getting it on here now, maybe I can sneak to a couple hundred yards on another one.

Both shoulders and both hams. Well, I guess you still have the backstrap to eat.

The .35 is a great rifle. You must be one #*&^ of a reloader.

Enjoy!

LOL, Thanks, and no Frontiersman, the 220 gr Speer is a hell for stout bullet, even stouter when it slowed on impact at 153 yards, entries were caliber sized holes, exits were no bigger than a dime, on the side of that hill I got too see the whole thing play out, the first shot through the shoulders rocked the hell out of that buck, put his face in the leaves, he had his back legs splayed out trying to remain on his feet, the double ham hit put him down hard.

I may have lost a couple handfuls of fajita meat, he weighed at least 200lbs on the hoof, good heavy mature white tail buck, no bloodshot at all, as far as reloading, this load duplicates Buffalo Bores load with the 220 gr Speer, my load leaves at 2175 fps from the Marlin, I do use the Lee factory crimp die to get everything squared up straight and tight, a really good shooting accurate load, I cant wait to see it work on a nilgai bull and maybe a cow elk.