Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Cartridges that you wanted because what was written or said about them.

It's interesting how when pressure tested data becomes available, cartridges often lose some of their luster. The same thing occurs when a new wonder powder comes on the market (for example, RE-17 being loaded to the gills in all sorts of cartridges when it came out). Suspect we will see something similar happen now with SAAMI testing of the 22 Creedmoor.

375 H&H and 458 Win. because of Peter Capstick and "Death In The Long Grass".

35 Whelen cause of Milek and Keith

7 Mashburn Super cause of Hagel and BobinNH

338 Win cause of Hagel and Keith

7 Rem Mag cause of Hagel



My list is probably alot longer, but those are the ones that jump out.

Peter used a 470 double rifle, not a 458 Winchester

I believe most of us are influenced by writers to a point, unless we jut followed family tradition passed along by family members which today is very rare.

Grew up reading Jack O'Connor, therefore the 270 and the 7X57

When I was very young there was a Field & Stream (probably) in the barbershop. Inside was a deer hunters story mentioning his "flat shooting 6mm" Rem.

Must have been twenty five years later I bought my own first deer rifle. 6mm ADL with gorgeous wood. Stock has changed but am still loving it. 243 never interested me. Silly, but there ya go.

The .444 Marlin...

Yeah, that Barsness fellow is a bad influence! His writing about the 6mm Lee-Navy cartridge & rifle got me to start bugging a buddy who has a minty one. I think I'm wearing him down.....

it's hard to find on the interweb thingy, but it is one of the first wildcats, the 35/30-30. Winchester screwed the pooch of not making the 35/30 factory rifle. i believe the 35 Remington cartridge would be in the dust bin of history, IF Winchester would have done 35/30, but they didn't.

the 35/30 ballistically comes close to the 35 Rem. where the 35/30 shines is the bullet selection, 250-280gr bullets. when i first got the 35/30, i was going to get 270-280gr WFN GC mold. but i already had a 200gr RCBS FN GC mold and no rifle in that caliber. i use 200gr RCBS FN GC and 2400/tuft of dacron going 1726fps and kills deer, 1 buck and 2 does were in my freezer. the buck was 53 yards and the 2 does were 20-30 yards away. after the shot, they will jog about 15 - 20 yards, stand there and then fall over. i could take take the bullet speed up to about 35 Rem level, but why bother. the recoil is nothing to talk about and the aperture is already set at 100 yards.

the brass, whether new or old, is easy to find. i'm told that 35 Rem dies are all that you need. i guess that whatever makes the .358" 180 to 200gr RN or FN bullets (Hornady, Speer....) still makes them? i do bullet molds and the alloy is either COWW and a smidge of tin or Lyman #2 and a smidge of tin or 10 lead and .1 or .2 lbs of tin. that is the way i was taught.

i use 35/30 CH4D dies and 30-30 Starline brass. i gave my youngest son the old 30-30 brass (Remington, Winchester, Federal...). JES Reboring does an awesome job on the rifle. i put on a Williams FP aperture sight because my eyes ain't what they once were.


shooting in the 35/30

Jack O'Connor/Finn Aagaard/Ross Seyfried/Wayne Van Zwoll/etc...

The .270 Winchester/150 gr..

No complaints.




GR

Same pretty much as everyone just never had as much money to satisfy that. I got in the habit early on of getting those guns if I could get out of them for more than the buy price. If the purchase was just going to depreciation from the get go I didn't bother to buy. Buy low, use as you want, sell high. Win/ win . Wait until you get a deal. Yes sometimes you just plain miss the boat.
Mb

.375 H&H
.450/400 NE 3"
.404 Jeffery

2 outa 3 'aint bad...

Right after college, I moved to South Texas in 1980. In need of a deer rifle, I was swayed by an article by John Wooters that his first custom rifle was to be chambered in the 7mm Express. Thus, I purchased a Remington 700 BDL in that chambering.

I always wanted a 256 Mag, just because of reading how badly it flopped in old reloading manuals when I was a kid. I never have gotten one, though.

30-06 because of Jeff Cooper and Finn Aagaard.
44 Magnum because of Elmer Keith and Skeeter Skelton.
45 Colt because of Ross Seyfried.
9.3x62 because of people here and at accuratereloading.com.


Okie John

I've always thought a 40mm projectile grenade and launcher would be cool.
Might have been a Tom Clancy book, not sure.

25 Copperhead, which then morphed into a 257 Kimber, and then to the 25-204 that I've been shooting for 18 yrs.

Add me to the list of people that read about the 35 Whelen growing up and got a warm fuzzy feeling. This may certify me as a looney but I secretly kinda like the lame "primitive weapons" laws here on the Gulf Coast because they really popularized the 35 Whelen (along with some other neglected big bore rounds) with a whole new group of hunters. Even though I turned in the single shot 35 Whelen for a 35 Remington because it comes a little lighter package i smile whenever I see 35 Whelen ammo on the shelf or hear other hunters talk about how much they like it.

Beyond that, the 7x57 is another I always read about and when I ended buying one to hunt with it was 175 gr RN bullets all the way. Ballistics be damned, I love the look of those big ole torpedoes!

Although I've never owned one, I read an article once on the 375/284 wildcat that really got me excited but wildcatting wasn't in this teenager's budget at the time . That interest in the 375 caliber though did lead to hunting with a couple of 375 JDJ's in a pistol and carbine configuration for awhile. With light deer appropriate bullets it was rather effective to say the least!

The 270 was my first centerfire hunting rifle, thanks to JOC. Keith hooked me on the big bores of one kind or another, as did Boddington. As a kid in the '60s I read the old Weatherby guide books and loved all things Weatherby, eventually owning rifles in about all of their cartridges. Seyfried made me want to build a 33 G&A and eventually I succumbed to Warren Page and the 7mm Mashburn.