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I'm almost embarrassed to ask this, but...is this ammo completely safe to use in a 336.?
I've got a Marlin 336 coming with 3.5 boxes of 150 gr. factory shells and this stuff looks awful pointy when compared with the 200 gr. stuff. I've never seen levergun ammo so pointy unless it's got a pencil eraser on top. I just would rather be safe than sorry.
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Yes, the 150 grain soft point is designed to be safe for tube magazines. My .35 just won't shoot the 150's worth a darn though, but if yours does these are good deer bullets.
Last edited by William on Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Whatever you point your rifle at when the hammer is cocked, will not be very safe if you put those CoreLokts in a 336. Everything else should be pretty safe.
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deerwhacker444 wrote:I'm almost embarrassed to ask this, but...is this ammo completely safe to use in a 336.?
I've got a Marlin 336 coming with 3.5 boxes of 150 gr. factory shells and this stuff looks awful pointy when compared with the 200 gr. stuff. I've never seen levergun ammo so pointy unless it's got a pencil eraser on top. I just would rather be safe than sorry.
Might get away with it for years, and then you could have a magazine explosion on the first magazine. Not the best choice and not intended for Marlins. Remington rifles are OK due to their magazine designs which alow its use. The 200 gr RN is a far better choice from an effectiveness and safety standpoint.
If you want to load only two rounds at a time everything would be OK.
Shoot 'em. Remington knows what they are doing and they also realize lots of folks will be using them in Marlins. I have seen tests with tubular magazines that have been sectioned, and it is rare that a bullet will be resting squarely on a primer. Todays primers need a special amount of force to detonate.------------------------Sixgun
I've never seen any .35 Rem shoot those darn 150s well although some folks love(d) them, particularly Contender shooters. Play with them, you might like them. If not you've got brass and you can move on to the 200s. With those you WILL be pleased.
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Hobie
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I got some 150 and 200, and upon seeing those 'points' decided to only load two at a time - one in magazine, one in chamber. Thankfully, due to ammo cost, I only got a 20 round box of each, so shot them up quickly. I will load 200 gr RN's once I get powder and primers.
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I agree with those who would not want to use them in a tubular magazine.
From what I have read, an explosion in the magazine rarly causes harm to the shooter but I still dont want to find out.
I vote for the 200gr RN.
They'll work. Looks like there's a little flat on the nose of that bullet. My advice is to save your brass for reloading because all too often unprimed 35 Rem brass can be hard to find. Also, buy yourself a box of Remington Coreloct 200 Gr RN component bullets for reloading. You'll be happy with your handloads. Along these same lines, if you are in to handloading with cast bullets, the RCBS 35-200 flatnose gascheck mold appears to have been designed by God himself for use with the 35 Remington.
Thanks for the replies. I will absolutely keep the empties for reloading and go with the 200gr's, I've read excellent things about them. I bought the rifle and it comes with 3.5 boxes for this stuff, so it's either shoot them or pull the bullets. They just look awful pointy to me when compared to all other levergun ammo. I guess I can load 2 at a time and make that work.
"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men
shall possess the highest seats in Government,
our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots
to prevent its ruin." Samuel Adams
From what I've seen and extensively read, the 200 grain Core Lokt is a nearly "magical" bullet that tends to defy physics. When the impact velocity is between 1400 and 2200 fps, it produces an excellent combination of expansion and penetration without favoring either. With most loads, that would be from 0 to about 175 yards. Whatever you shoot with it tends to die immediately, with very tolerable meat damage.
What more could you ask?
bogie
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Thats it then, I'm selling everything but my 35 Rem 336
Just kidding!
The question about this ammo was prudent IMHO. I would also be leery of using it in a tubular mag - probably would be just fine, but better safe than sorry.
And I think the well earned reputation of the 35 Rem is partly due to the low expectations that a lot of folks have before using it - they've been indocrinated with magnumitis and can't hardl believe that such a slow mover would kill so effectively.
The fact is, all fo the "new smokeless rounds" at the turn of the century used heavy for caliber cup and core bullets and were very effective - ie: 220 grain soft points in the 30-40 Krag, 215 grain blue noses in the .303 Brit, 170 grainers in the 30-30 Win, 35 Winchester, 38-55 Win, etc. The larger calibers didn't have quite as heavy for caliber bullets but they didn't really need em...
