It's a great round and the 336 is a great rifle. 35 Remington shooting Remington core-lokt ammo. My son got his first big game critter, a Black Bear, with a Marlin 336 in.
I have only fired it at paper targets and coffee cans full of water but it is a fun gun to plink with too.Ĭame close to buying a Model 8 in. The first deer he shot with it dropped just as you described yours dropping. He is 80 now and has said it will be my youngest boys when he is done deer hunting. Then he would pop them both and call it good.Īnd put many a deer in the freezer and never did we have to track one. So I would trot down the ridgeline we hunted for years and drop them in the middle of it. "Go put that jug or 2 out there about 150 years or so" he would tell me. He paid 60 bucks for.Ī Combat Vet and CIB holder he could shoot that gun. My Father has hunted with a Remington Pump for 50 years now with a.35 Remington Model 760. The 35 Rem brings back good memories of my Papaw. My cousin got that rifle and I'm sure pawned it or had it stolen.
He's been gone awhile but I still remember he cracked the stock when he had it lashed across the back of his 3 wheeler when he misjudged the amount of space between the two trees he went through. I hunted in northwestern Mississippi as a young man with my Papaw's Marlin in 35 Rem. The old slow-moving cartridges do a magnificent job when used the way the old-timers intended them to be used. There's something about putting a 200 grain slug into play that seems to end the discussion. It's long been overshadowed by other cartridges, but every deer I've killed with that rifle has exhibited much the same tendencies. It throws a 200 grain bullet at about 2000 fps. 35 Remington is considered a rather anemic cartridge. Suffice it to say that the front luggage compartment was covered in blood before we unloaded it. Getting that deer into Joe's Volkswagen is another story. He was a middling spike buck, but for two starving college students he represented a lot of meat. The big 200 grain bullet had entered at the point of the right jaw, traversed the neck and come out on the other side of his head. When I examined the deer, the reason for his demise was apparent. Joe and I looked at each other, then started pacing the distance. I threw the rifle up, snapped a shot and Joe and I were surprised to watch the animal spin around like he was pole-axed and drop into the dust, dead as Het. As we walked down Kisatchie creek, a deer stepped out of the trees and started across that tiny road. We were late getting to the woods, Joe having stuck his Volkswagen in a mud hole. Several weeks later I was walking down a logging road with Joe Duhon, a classmate, in the Kisatchie Forest just south of Provencal, LA. I still had 10 rounds of ammo left at the end of that exercise and no more money in my pocket. In ninety days it was mine, paid in full, and I realized I didn't have enough hard cash to afford ammo, so I waited another 30 days to afford $8.00 for a box of Remington ammo.Ī friend of mine went with me to a convenient pipeline and we set up a target and sighted the rifle. So, I plunked down $10.00 to hold it, and started saving my pennies to buy the rifle. The price tag, new in box, was $87.50, still more than I could afford, but the counterguy told me that they had a layaway plan. I asked to look at it and saw that it was chambered in. Then, one day when I was in college I was walking through a hardware store and saw a Marlin 336 in the rack. I couldn't afford a centerfire rifle, but I listened to my buddy and dreamed of the day I could put cash down on such a masterpiece of engineering. 35 Remington and propounded on the advantages of the cartridge as a dense woods deer rifle. When I was a tender youth, my buddy shot a. Framk Hamer used a Remington Model 8 in the ambush that ended the career of outlaw Clyde Barrow. It's probably the last of the line of mid-powered rimless cartridges that were designed for early autoloaders of that period. It was originally chambered in the Remington Model 8 rifle in 1908. The cartridge has been around a long time. I profess a love and long abiding respect for the.