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A 6 3/4 lb 358 Norma, Ouch. I have a grizzly permit for this spring hopefully I will be able to post some pics sometime in May. I will be using some old style 250 gr Grand Slams in my Whelen.


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Originally Posted by gerrygoat
A 6 3/4 lb 358 Norma, Ouch. I have a grizzly permit for this spring hopefully I will be able to post some pics sometime in May. I will be using some old style 250 gr Grand Slams in my Whelen.


Well that's with the synthetic stock...I have since put it back in some dense walnut and she is about 7.25 pounds now. Still a tad vigorous but the magna porting helps a bit too. Gotta love the 35's

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Ismith that is a beautiful rifle!

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Originally Posted by safariman
Hmmmmm.... this post has me thinking about a Remmy pump gun in 9.3X62.


There was an old article about reboring the Rem 760 to a 375 -06 , could not go that large as the Remington barrel sight screws were to deep wonder if the 9.3 would work. Custom barrel would be difficult
due to the way the bolt engages inside the barrel. The author of the article went to a 338-06 with the rebore,


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Originally Posted by 458Win
I guess I do have to plead guilty but, in my defense, I also plan on using it with full power loads as well. The rifle is also one that my son has plans for as he also inherited a full dose of the rifle loony gene. He is a diehard 35 Whelen fan and calls the 9.3x62's "euro-trash"

Nailed it!
The older I get, the more convinced I become that a rifles job is to put decent bullet in just the right spot. The Whelen is one of the calibers that bring together a very nice combination of devastating impact on game while keeping recoil at a manageable level encouraging very good hunting accuracy.
Been using the Whelen for 30 years, my go to load is 250 gr Partitions at a hair under 2500 fps, tho I used a bunch of Hornadys back before SPS came on the scene. I have trialed an used a bunch of powders, hard to find one the Whelen did not like.
Have had a S African visiting the last 2 whitetail seasons here in western NYS. He used my Whelen. Took five shots. Buck and a doe each season, plus a fox. Zero trailing on any of them, which mirror most of my experience.
My 2 cents says that the Whelen delivers a terrific amount of performance in a package that most of us mortal humans can easily live with.
Don't need no stinking euro trash!


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i have been looking for a 35 Whelen in a Remington 760 pump so if someone is buying a bigger cartridge rifle ? let me know .Pete53


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ismith, now that's an old soldier, for sure.

Do you have any details on it?

Bet it has an interesting history.

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Originally Posted by pete53
i have been looking for a 35 Whelen in a Remington 760 pump so if someone is buying a bigger cartridge rifle ? let me know .Pete53


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Originally Posted by Dirtfarmer
ismith, now that's an old soldier, for sure.

Do you have any details on it?

Bet it has an interesting history.

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It was purchased from the DCM on 16 Feb 1938 by Robert V. Culley of Pheonix, AZ. It was built by Niedner and stocked by Linden, an Anderson safety was added sometime during the 50’s and it came out of an estate in Alaska around 15 years ago. Still doing some research on it. Culley was longtime resident of Tucson, AZ.

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ismith, now that's an old soldier, for sure.

Do you have any details on it?

Bet it has an interesting history.

DF


It was purchased from the DCM on 16 Feb 1938 by Robert V. Culley of Pheonix, AZ. It was built by Niedner and stocked by Linden, an Anderson safety was added sometime during the 50’s and it came out of an estate in Alaska around 15 years ago. Still doing some research on it. Culley was longtime resident of Tucson, AZ.

Cool.

Just looked like a legacy piece.

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Originally Posted by pete53
i have been looking for a 35 Whelen in a Remington 760 pump so if someone is buying a bigger cartridge rifle ? let me know .Pete53



check out Grices gunshop sale flyer. They got em.

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Does anyone have a definitive answer as to Keith and Whelen being exposed to 9.3x62 and "conveniently" forgetting you don't need a 30-06 as a basis of a larger cartridge in .357 or .366 bore? I have one cow elk with 35 Whelen and one black bear with 9.3x62 so I am firmly in both camps.

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Fun to see this ten+ year old thread resurface. smile

As I recall, Gerry got his grizzly. smile

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Yes, cool old thread Guy, glad Gerry got his Grizz, 250gr bulk bought Hornadys for practice, 250gr NPT's at 2700 fps for all N.A. big game and African plains game hunting, cant think of what that wont stone out to a long 400 yards.


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Originally Posted by Carson
Does anyone have a definitive answer as to Keith and Whelen being exposed to 9.3x62 and "conveniently" forgetting you don't need a 30-06 as a basis of a larger cartridge in .357 or .366 bore? I have one cow elk with 35 Whelen and one black bear with 9.3x62 so I am firmly in both camps.

Keith knew about the 9.3x74Rimmed cartridge and proceeded to make a 338 out of it....

Early on he did like the 9mm Mauser rifle cartridge.

I would suspect bullet and case availability to be the major problem of the time in regards to the 9.3x62

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I am sure rifle loonies like Keith and Whelen knew of the 9.3's but metric designations have never been popular with Americans. At least until the Creedmore era 😜.
Which explains my son's tongue-in-cheek naming of the 9.3x62.
But the 35 Whelen and 9.3x62, when loaded to identical pressure levels, are mighty close, especially with the new loads from Buffalo Bore.


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Originally Posted by HawkI
[quote=Carson]I would suspect bullet and case availability to be the major problem of the time in regards to the 9.3x62

"availability" being the operative word for pre-WW2 American hunters versus "existence", there being lots of fabulous 9.3 ammo and bullets existing in the old country and the "Dark Continent."

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