It speaks well for the cartridge (not to mention the rifle and the shooter).

-AaronB

Last I knew, he can provide 4 & 5 groove and other twists.

The load was a 280gr paper patch bullet, 16bhn, over 40grs of IMR4895, 1930fps average MV. As usual, there was one anti-social so-n-so that landed up north away from its friends.

https://www.ballisticstudies.com/Knowledgebase/.35+Whelen.html

I tend to believe a 12 or 14 twist is fine for 35cal rifles. The 16t that Remington used is a bit slow for the bullet weights (length) we like. So far, I have no issue stabilizing 280s @ 1900fps with a 14t, though I could see a 10t if 300+gr subsonics were planned.

Most of my experience over the last 35yrs has been with 225/250gr bullets in the 35WAI and they shoot quite well, even the old discontinued 250gr XBT. The also discontinued 225gr Nosler BT shoots well and is excellent deer medicine. Notice a trend? The 35cal bullets just don't sell as well as 30 and 338cals and the manufacturers drop them for the latest internet hotness. As usual, my ubiquitous statement of "if you find something that works, stock up" applies.

Will throw in a link to Hawk bullets; they are priceless to those wanting to shoot jacketed in various obsolete cartridges - and you can even spec jacket thickness to suit your velocity.

https://hawkbullets.com

Because it would represent nothing that anybody really needs, I would label it the ".358 Dauntless."

Because of course it's undaunted by common sense.

-AaronB

-AaronB

Not sure what involvement Epps had with any wildcatting of his cartridge but there is a little bit of press on the base case being necked up and down. The thought of a 35-303 "Improved" tickles my fancy. It won't do a danged thing that my other 35's won't do but that doesn't matter much. In the strong P-14 action, it should be all of a .358 Win or better--maybe. Hoping I can reload it with what dies are on hand already....we'll see.

FWIW, Epps Sporting Goods is still up and running in Canada...Ontario, I think. They don't have any answers regarding the 35 cartridge but they were very kind in telling me so.

I have owned exactly one Springfield Krag in my life, a nice carbine, and foolishly I sold it down the river in pursuit of some other toy I just had to have. It was a shooter, too, so I would not likely have futzed with it... but an action can be had if one has the scratch.

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1065330735

Remember that Remington Roller I mentioned in the OP? I think the seed was put in my mind by the existence of the Carl Gustafs Remington RB that was built for the Swedish military back in the day. Those were chambered in 8x58R Krag, though, not .30-40 (although RBs can be had in .30-40 also).

https://www.chuckhawks.com/swedish_rolling_block_rifle.htm

A brief comparison of the .30-40 vs. the 8x58R cases revealed that aside from length, the 8x58R cartridge is larger at all points of comparison... meaning that the conversion of an 8x58R Krag rifle would not create a .35 Krag, but rather would create something new... call it 9x58R Krag.

Okay, now I'm just being silly.

But a roller in good old .35 Krag is a definite possibility.

-AaronB

-AaronB