I must confess to being a new 35 Remington shooter. My launch pad for the round is a 1965 production 336 Marlin. I also have a 356 Winchester 94 Big Bore that will launch the Speer 180 gr. bullets at +2600 fps.
I have read that when Marlin chambered the 356 Win. in the 336 that they did not have to do any action strengthing for it to accomodate the higher pressure cartridge. So the question is this:
Just how hot can the 35 Remington be loaded in the 336 Marlin?
Almost all of the reloading data I have examined seem to limit the pressures to those that the Remington Model 8 or 81 autoloaders can handle. This seems to limit the data to those loads within the narrow range of pressure and velocity that can reliably funtion the autoloaders. Can't the Marlin platform perform well beyond that narrow envelope?
It seems to me that there is some substaintial perfomance gain left on the reloading bench here.
Somebody set me straight on this!
Reb
I have read that when Marlin chambered the 356 Win. in the 336 that they did not have to do any action strengthing for it to accomodate the higher pressure cartridge. So the question is this:
Just how hot can the 35 Remington be loaded in the 336 Marlin?
Almost all of the reloading data I have examined seem to limit the pressures to those that the Remington Model 8 or 81 autoloaders can handle. This seems to limit the data to those loads within the narrow range of pressure and velocity that can reliably funtion the autoloaders. Can't the Marlin platform perform well beyond that narrow envelope?
It seems to me that there is some substaintial perfomance gain left on the reloading bench here.
Somebody set me straight on this!
Reb