Home Forums Lever Action Central Big Bore Levers 375 vs. 35 remm?

Loaded to their usual respective pressures the 375 moves ahead by quite a bit. If you load the 35 Rem up to pressures a modern 336 is capable of you will reach similar ballistics but are on your own for charge weights as no manual I know of supports this loading and internet sources like Paco have always struck me as sketchy. I really like the whole idea of the 375 and the 255 Barnes at 1900-2000fps is quite a load. The original top eject Big Bore is light, super handy and built for 50,000 PSI. What's not to love?

Mine 375 is a Savage 99 and is extremely accurate with the 250gr Win factory load, I only have a couple rounds left. My 35 Rem is Rem 760. I like them both, if I had to sell one the 760 would go down the road.

For the typical suburban, gun-glutt style gun collector /occasional deer hunter, you probably won't notice a difference between the two, loaded to their respective pressures.

Up north here, Yukon, north 61, and mself have seen real deal killing power from the little 375 Winchester on large moose, caribou and bear.

Talk about cheap: my childhood model 94 was sent to Jes reboring. Back then it was $175 to rebore. He recommended rl 10x for low pressure/top velocity and claimed the 375 didn't need to be in the big bore.

That gun was fed hundreds of reloads. Everything from resized 30-30 brass, starline 38-55 brass and 375 Winchester brass. With so much meat taken out of the barrel after rebore it was very light and handy. The quickness to recover from recoil for shot #2, my son always reached for it, when he headed into the mountsins to hike-harden Malamute puppies.

Top: 35 rem speer data
Bottom, 375 win. Hornady data. That's a substantial difference.

It it were me, I'd skip right over the 35 rem and go right to the 356 Winchester.

Always enjoy seeing that smile on your son's face!

A minor point, but in terms of accurate reporting the M8 was not a blowback design. It was a recoil-operated action with a rotating bolt head like more modern actions and could handle much more powerful cartridges than any blowback action. It was definitely not as strong as more modern gas operated actions.



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killed an even dozen deer with my M8 rem in 35. every last one was shot and drop
killed an even dozen deer with my 94 win big bore 375 win. every last one was shot and drop.

if i could choose only 1 it would be the 375. i have 500 brass with 200 loaded. it also has taken 2 elk.

You are very correct about component and ammo availability. I've been seeing a chidt load of everything for the 35 remington. Just today i saw a bunch of brass for one. I very rarely ever find 375 win stuff. I've also been seeing 35 remington ammo everywhere. I have a 375 win, but a buddy is wanting to buy a 336 chambered in 35 rem just because we have been seeing a lot of reloading components and ammo.

To me, there ain’t much comparison. 375 all the way.👍

I have both. That's what you NEED!

may not need, certainly want!

Ive messaged Tim Sundles of Buffalo Bore on this very subject and he informed me that the 375 and 38/55 has an performance edge ober the 35rem no question.

Some may claim theres no components for the 375 but thats really not the case. Theres enough 38/55 around and you can form cases oit of 30-30 win. Theres plenty of cast for 375 and 38/55. If you handload the 375 is the way to fly.