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My Whelen is a Weatherby Vangaurd with a 25" Shilen barrel and camo synthetic stock. I also get 2700fps with 225 grain loads. The Federal premium ammo with Trophy Bonded bullets shoots best though. I get average of 2698 with that load and it kills elk very well.
Whatever you get, don't bother with the Remington factory ammo. Its loaded to a pretty low pressure level.
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Factory best load and best handload is the new Nosler factory load with 225 Partition @ 2800 and loads for same in the newest Nosler manual. There is a .35 Whelen web site if you google it.
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Factory best load and best handload is the new Nosler factory load with 225 Partition @ 2800 and loads for same in the newest Nosler manual. There is a .35 Whelen web site if you google it. 9.3, I have two Whelen's, a CDL and a 7600. They shoot everything but 225gr NP's I've tried R12/15, W748, BLC-2, and IMR4895, and a couple different primers. Any suggestions?
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Try IMR 4320 if RL 15 wont work. My 7600 .35 Whelen prefers IMR 4320 with 225 Gr loads. RL 15 for all other loads.
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The Ruger website is now showing the Hawkeye chambered for .264 Win. Mag, and the 35 Whelen, here is your chance.
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my 35 whelen 7600 likes imr4064 and hornady 250 interlocks. tom
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I have a couple of Whelen's but really do like my old tang M77. I just gotta have those open sights. To date I have used both the 250 gr Speer (bear, hogs) and Partition (elk, nilgai and hogs) with RL 15 at ~2500 fps. I have recently tweaked the rifle setting it up for a northern BC elk/moose/caribou/bear hunt this fall using the 225 gr TSX. I love the lightweight barrel it came with so I fitted a one of Mark Basner's stocks and lost about a pound. It is plenty accurate. I picked mine up 8 years ago in West Texas cheap (a Whelen in West Texas???) and have since passed up two others which I now regret. I'd look for one of these or one from the run of MK-II's they did some years back. Rebarreling a beater one ain't a bad idea either.
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I have two Whelen's, a CDL and a 7600. They shoot everything but 225gr NP's I've tried R12/15, W748, BLC-2, and IMR4895, and a couple different primers. Any suggestions? Pretty simple...don't shoot Partitions. Then you won't have to pick jacket and lead fragments out of your meat. Not being able to shoot Nosler Partitions represents exactly zero loss in my book. YMMV. Dennis
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Why don't you find an old Springfield in 30-06 that has been sporterized and rebore it to .35? Then you would have a period cartridge in a period rifle.
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My whelen doesn't like 225 partitions either. It will keep 250 grain hornady spt, 250 speer spt, 250 a-frames, and 250 barnes originals on a 3 x 5 steel plate @ 300 yds. All with 57 grs of RL 15 and without adjusting the scope. I hunt with the speers because of the higher b.c.
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[/quote]Pretty simple...don't shoot Partitions. Not being able to shoot Nosler Partitions represents exactly zero loss in my book. YMMV. [/quote]
Well, the fact that it shoots 225gr Sierra's, 250gr Speer Spitzers, and 250gr Hornady SP's like a good varmit rifle keeps me smilin' for sure.
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we have used 250 speers in most of our 35 whelens and 358 win rifles for years in our ELK camp, with zero need or desire to change a thing, having to use only that 250 weight bullet might be almost an addvantage
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