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My 1913 vintage 1894.



My kid, Jeff Davis, with the same gun.

Great pics, Cole. Little feller seems proud enough. I'm guessing he has laid claim to that rifle. One of these days, I'd like to own, and mess around with a .25-35, but they are just too rich for my blood these days. maybe I'll be independently wealthy soon.

Had one that I looked at for quite a while of that vintage. Not in nearly as nice a shape as yours for about $600. I finally decided that the sights and general condition were just not worth it. I wanted a casual kind of catchall trail rifle and it just didn't fill the bill. But the round has always fascinated me.
Yours looks very good. I understand that Hornady's 117 gr. RN bullet is very popular with .25-35 users. There is some very good, pratical loading data availiable for it as well. E

Nice carbine!

I've got an 1894 .25-35 rifle made in 1898, with octagon barrel, in about the same sort of shape. The bore is a little pitted but it still shoots into 2" or so at 100 yards.

I have a custom Martini Cadet in .25-35 that also shoots very well. A nice caliber for iron sight ranges and medium game. Has a little more flexibility in a single shot because you can pick from a lot of different bullets and load it a tad warmer. But only a tad in a Cadet. I'd love to try it in a Hiwall sometime.

Want a 25/35 in the worse way. Had on in a Savage 1899 but I was stupid.

Good looking lad.

Mesa,

I have a buddy who (like me) really likes German rifles. He has a nifty kipplauf (break-action single-shot) in .25-35, called the 6,5x52R over there. He loads it with the 115 Ballistic Tip to about 2600 fps and has killed a lot of game with it out to 200 yards, both in North America and Africa.

The .25-35/6,5x52R used to be chambered in quite a few single-shots and drillings. I have an old Sauer hammer drilling imported to America by Charles Daly that's 12x12/.30-30, but understand some were made in .25-35, both in hammer and hammerless models. Would love to find one of those!

Thanks y'all. I actually toted it to a gunshow last weekend in an attempt to upgrade, but it was better than the three I saw-and I've got less in it than I could have bought any of them for.

A few years back I had one that was better than this. Stupidly, I let it get away from me. This one is pretty straight with fairly crisp lettering. The rear sight is a King's though.

Beautiful rifle Cole, got a Bud w/ a '94 in 25-35 w/ a octagon barrel, I screwed up and complimented it to much, if I do ever get to buy it, its gonna be high

Gunner

I went hunting this past weekend with my 25-35. Mine is one of the new ones they made five or six years ago, and it was my first deer rifle. I already got a buck in Wyoming, so I was trying to fill a doe tag. It was a weird weekend as I was able to get within 150 yards of every group of does we saw, but all of the does on public land had fawns and all of the dry does we found were on private land where we couldn't hunt. A beautiful weekend, though, and I love hunting with that rifle. It just feels right in the sagebrush.

Coincidentally I just noticed that the newest MidwayUSA flier has S&B 6.5x52R/.25-35 ammo on sale (their item #882-351). Any good?

John, I've always wanted a German or Austrian break-action single shot "stalking rifle" (actually I think that may be the Brit term for them) but never was in the right place with the right $$. A friend has a no-name Ferlach rifle that is just right, although chambered for 8x48R, an odd little cartridge. He still manages to shoot it regularly and well. (At least part of it was actually made by J.P. Sauer).

I'd always wanted a 25-35 and stupidly passed on a Winchester in 95%+ condition a few years ago. It was sitting at a gunshop where the owner turned his inventory fast and nothing was overpriced. Still can't understand why I hesitated.

I recently found one in similar condition to ColeYounger's. My FFL buddy and I have done so many trades I really don't know what I've paid for it and never will know. Should be a fun little rifle.

My old Bud says a charge of RL-15 and the 117 Hornady round nose bullets are indeed pure sweetness.

Gunner

My old Bud says a charge of RL-15 and the 117 Hornady round nose bullets are indeed pure sweetness.
Gunner [/quote]

I agree, I am loading for a new rifle, a Model 94AE. 27.0 grains of Alliant Reloder 15 gives me excellent accuracy and 2,350 fps.
I also like Alliant Reloder 10X - which I thought would prove fast for the cartridge but - 23.0 grains of Reloader 10X give me 2,360 fps with equal or better accuracy.
The Model 94 is not a 1� rifle but will often shoot 3 shots inside 1 �� at 100 yards from the bench. The little Model 94 with the low recoil 25-35 cartridge excells when shot from field positions.

For our little West Texas deer I prefer the 100-grain bullets and I feed the 100-grain JHP Speer bullet through the magazine without difficulty. My maximum loads using Alliant Reloder 10X touch 2,600 fps and this is a fine deer load.

10-Roger, thanks for the added info Slim, I gotta get an old octagon brl. 25-35 WCF, been thinkin' about one for 20 years now.

Gunner

You're a fortunate man.

I like those.

I still have a box of handloads around here somewhere.

I used my brother-in-laws mom's and my aunt's rifles for some of my early hunting. Auntie's SRC was sweet. Tang rear sight and it was a tack driver. One of her grandsons has it.

Well boys, that carbine went down the river. Another in better shape has taken its spot in the safe rotation. heheheh Pics to come.

I've had an itch for a 25-35 for about the last 30 years. And I think I'm getting ready to scratch it.

I have a Ruger #3 in 375 Win that I bought at a very good price about 6 years ago. Am thinking of having it re-barreled to 25-35.

It would not be a lever action rifle, but the falling block of the #3 goes back even farther. And I could use pointy bullets.

Depending on who you are talking to, being a rifle loony is either a virtue or a vice. Virtues are good, but vices have given me a lot of good memories.

So I think I will scratch.

Steve

I would barrel the No. 3 for 32 H&R Magnum with a .308� barrel!

The single shot 25-35 is a great varminter, Townsend Whelen, Paul Estey and W.F. Vickery all having written of the virtues of the slow twist 25-35. I would go with a 14� twist with 100-grain bullets and lighter as my primary bullets. Today�s longer bullets would stabilize and with a medium heavy contour you would still have a walk around rifle. With the current light weight 2-7X variables your No. 3 would be handy in the field. Alliant Reloder 10X and Reloder 15 will get you started. IMR 4320 is the benchmark in accuracy and the newer powders will still have to work hard to beat for accuracy and velocity.