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Only one I have is a Savage lever action. Played with it a little bit but didn't fall in love, at least not yet.

What the heck...? In Forum Context of "General Big Game", in respect of the 25-35 Winchester round, the precept of "Corporal Punishment!" In warding off all such "Wild Hares" postulating"
Just my take
Best!!
John

My Uncle Harold and Aunt Lillian were long time residents of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. They hunted deer together every year and occasionally for bear as well. Aunt Lillian's rifle was a cut down Remington model 14 chambered for the obsolete 25 Remington. This cartridge is a dead ringer for the 25-35 except that it has no rim at the base of the case. She slew stacks of deer from about 1920 to 1973. Even a few bears were felled at the bark of her 25. Shot placement is the key to downing animals quickly. - Sherwood

My friend in high school shot his deer with a model 94 every year.

The grand old man who taught me to hunt when I was just a teenager started out with a Winchester lever action in 25-35. He grew up on a farm and only ate what they could grow and what he could shoot.

He kept that rifle for a long time, even after he took a good job and could afford something different. He told me the guys in deer camp made fun of him for bringing that "little" 25-35, but he was the one who always got his deer.

Even so, he eventually moved on to the .270 Win. in the form of a Winchester Model 70 that he used for many many years.

The Hornady FTX loads are reportedly breathing a bit of fire into the old round. Brian Pearce killed a pronghorn with that load a couple of years ago and IIRC it was a pretty long poke.

Yeah pappy but didn't he have to do a finisher on it ?mb

I'm hoping to take a doe with my 99 in 25-35 this season! Our Opener is one week from today!

Don’t recall. Anyway, that happens.

FB,

Have several .25-35s along with a few .25-35 improved versions (including Francis Sell’s “perfect” woods deer cartridge the .25-35 Tomcat in a Savage 99 - a beautiful little custom rifle that’d be right up your alley😁 - although Sell made his in a 336 Marlin). Have been using them the last few years while deer hunting but haven’t had a deer cooperate yet (i.e. get close enough - using 75 yards as a self-imposed maximum for a shot). I’m just a .25 caliber freak and enjoy the cartridge likely very underwhelming when used on big game but “if the bullet is place right” then will kill just like any other round. Have used the Hornady FTX round and it has proven quite accurate.

Penndog