Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors So... Tell me about the 35-300 Savage...

I have an old rat EG from 1950 that does not shoot so good...

It has been drilled and tapped for scope, (and it's drilled crooked )

So I saw that JES rifle reboring does the 35-300 savage. I am gonna take it to the gunsmith to see if there's a problem with the barrel etc... and if it is bad was thinking about this option.

I have an article from The American Rifleman from January 1973 where the author mentions this as a good solution for a .300 that's worn out.

Anyone know anything about this wildcat? Anyone ever shoot or see one?

I'm thinking it falls between the .35 Remington and the .358 Winchester...

Never seen any numbers on a 35-300 Savage, but it sounds like an interesting option if the barrel is badly worn. I'm guessing the 35-300 would be a somewhat slower and less flat shooting .35 than the .358 Winchester. There are other possible problems which could make your EG "not shoot so good", though it could be you've already checked those out, and perhaps the worn barrel is fairly obvious.
Might be interesting as well to do up 338-300 Savage. One other thing to investigate is how/if the spindle in the 300 rotary mag would handle the larger bullets. The spindles are fairly cartridge specific, and you could be creating some tough to solve feeding problems with the larger bullets. I had a beater .308 detachable mag 99 rebored to .358W a few years ago. I went with the 99c in hopes of avoiding feeding issues (and because it was cheaper). Even so, it took a fair bit of mag tweeking to get it to feed well.
Just some thoughts from a verified none-expert while you're waiting for someone more knowledgeable to chime in.

Another thing to think about is barrel diamter , and would boring it out to 35 end up making the barrel too thin. If thats the case I might consider a 32/300 useing the Win 32 special bullets.

Also, I bought several years ago an old 99 in 30-30 that the barrel looked like coroded sewer pipe, and 4 inchs had been cut off the end of the barrel, so there was no front sight, there was very little blue finish left on the gon and both butt stock and fore end were badly cracked. So decided to rebuild the whole rifle in to new gun. I put a 26 inch tapered octagon barrel in 32 cal on it and had it chambered to 32-40 Win. new stocks and complete reblueing. Had the action D&T for a Leupold 2X7 scope, no iron sights, and it tuned out to be very beautiful 99 and very accurate target rile.

Haven't built one yet but I mocked up a round using a 300 Sav case and a .358 Win die. As I recall it would take 44 grains of varget under a 200 Grain Hornady R/N. I think this would be good for 2300 to 2400 fps. Would make a very nice woods round. The short neck and the 200 Grain Hornady R/N seem like they are made for eachother.

Absolutely. If that bullet didn't work in a short neck, it sure wouldn't work in a .35 Remington.

99Lover, I never saw a rifle in that caliber but I'm fairly sure it's listed in Cartridges of the World. If so, you could get some load and performance data there. For that matter, you could load 180 grain bullets using .300 data for that weight, and pretty well count on lower pressure and higher velocity than in the .300.

You'd wind up with what I would call a rimless 35 Lever Power Short. And yes, there was/is a wildcat called the 35 Lever Power. It's based on the 30-40, shortened and the rim turned to 30-30 dia. A 30 cal version of the same also has been done.