Craig Boddington was the senior contributing editor of our modern gun and ammunition caliber dictionary. Craig was involved in the development and testing of many of these and writes from first hand experience. This dictionary was written exclusively for Wholesale Hunter with unique information found nowhere else.
GUN CALIBER DICTIONARY
Rifle
35 Remington
Introduced in 1906, the 35 Remington is the last survivor of a family of rimless cartridges Remington developed for their Model 8 semiautomatic rifle. Although "paper ballistics" are unimpressive, with a 200-grain bullet at 2080 feet per second, the 35 Remington is a legendary "big woods" cartridge for deer and black bear. It was chambered to many early bolt-actions and some lever-actions and slide-actions. Marlin's 336 is the last factory rifle so chambered. The 35 Remington is very efficient in short barrels, so it got a new lease on life in bolt-action and single-shot "specialty pistols." At close range it still a hard-hitting cartridge, a fine close cover cartridge and especially excellent for feral hogs. — Craig Boddington