Marlin 35 Remington ***It's Just Right***

marlon 336 35 remington and if this was a crying baby i should have taken it out of the theater a long time ago [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hi george here and welcome to tales from target suite where i'll share my perspective on guns and shooting and we'll spend some time at the range and every now and then we'll reconvene out in my shop back in houston or here at the farm in louisiana where i'll build some fun projects and we'll share an adventure or two that'll make even a grown man smile and yesterday we do have a promise that's been kept and it is the 35 remington i've been talking about this for a long time both in my channel and on my videos and also in the comments and so we finally have one here on target suite and this one belongs to my friend rusty and he has loaned me this for uh for this video maybe another one and i just want to say thanks to rusty i appreciate uh i appreciate that and and several of you guys have have shared things with me over the course of this last 16 months of target suite and i appreciate that and the first bullet i'm going to show you here is the 200 grain ftx bullet it's the same bullet that that hornerty uses in their level revolution line of of uh ammo and then we have the 200 grain sierra pro hunter 200 grain round nose very traditional bullet for the 35 remington and then finally we have the 220 grain spfn flat nose bullet it's a spear bullet 220 grain and just a little more information on that i bought that thinking it was for that i could use it in the 35 remington but since i've had people tell me that that's actually designed for faster velocities like for the 358 like the 35 wheelin type velocities and so i don't know if that's going to expand or not but at the end of the video like always we're going to bust some pumpkins and water jugs and hopefully we'll capture a bullet and see if it actually expanded or not and so uh stick around for that also later on i'm going to read you a response that i got from the ceo of term ruger and company and if you remember in last week's video we talked about ruger buying marlin well i got a response back from an email that i sent them but i'm going to read it to you and let you guys know what what ruger's thinking because they did give us a little bit more information than we had up front and so we'll uh we'll talk about that and so i said we have three hand loads that we're going to shoot but also i've been trying to get my hands on some underwood hemo for a long time it's featured on so many channels on youtube and finding underwood hemo is like finding hens teeth and just about as expensive as if you could get them but lo and behold i found some and so we're going to try to include that in today's video and uh in fact here it is it's a little bit unconventional but there it is underwood underwood hemo and we'll see how that works out and so i hope you'll stick around to the end of the video to see how the underwood hammer performs okay well that's enough yeah i can let's see if we can't shoot some steel now okay i've got six cartridges loaded here the first two are going to be the ftx 100 of the 200 grain ftx bullets from hornady and then the second two are going to be the 200 grain sierra round nose bullets and then we're going to shoot one of the 200 grain uh 220 grain sphere flat point bullets and then we're going to save the last shot is going to be uh is going to be the underwood hemo so let's see if we can make that steel ring [Applause] [Applause] all right here goes the underwood hemo i can't believe i can't believe i missed that can but anyway that was our underwood ammo now let's go get set up down there and um shoot some pumpkins and see if we can capture these bullets and see how they expand okay for our first shot we're going to use the first shot on the pumpkin we're going to use the the hornady ftx bullet 200 grains now for you guys and girls that think that this test is uh just an exercise in in humor um let me just tell you that i did uh golly i did some experimentation with one of the one of the feral hogs that i shot a few weeks ago and i posted a video for my patrons and what i did was i set up the the uh the recently shot the recently disposed a pig and i did some penetration tests through that animal and and it was remarkable that the penetration through the pig captured in water jugs was actually one water jug less than the same bullet shot through a pumpkin water filled pumpkin and so anyway the point is that it's a fairly reasonable test for penetration and what i really hope to do i think we're not going to have any problem catching the ftx bullet and probably the the sierra 200 grain pro hunter i think we'll be able to catch those fairly easily i should be careful when i say things like that with confidence but uh but it's really the the spear 220 grain that i'm most interested in to see if it's going to expand at uh basically 2100 feet per second and so i hope we're able to catch that bullet and see but anyway let's get up back up uh back up there we're going to be shooting it from 50 yards and let's see if we can capture this ftx bullet first things first and by the way don't forget to stick around because well i am going to read that uh that email from the ceo of sturm ruger and company okay here we go 200 grain ftx bullet traveling at 1950 feet per second something like that [Music] sure wasn't a dead center hit on the pumpkin shot low three water jugs four water jugs so okay that's an interesting bullet that is really an interesting bullet okay that ftx bullet i shot a little bit low actually i shot quite a bit low i don't think i got through any of the water in that pumpkin now we're going to use the 200 grain round nose and i'm going to try to do a little bit better job of aiming i think that was a good one well that was a really good one but uh i didn't get the camera turned on golly and i've got an interesting look i can see the bullet sitting right there and so it went through the pumpkin three water jugs and stuck right there between the third water jug and the first larger water jug and it just fell right there so this is the 200 grain i'll give you a better close-up here in a minute that's the 200 grain sierra pro hunter okay here's the last bullets the 220 grain spear soft point flat nose this is the one that is supposedly too hard for the velocities of the 35 remington [Applause] okay we got a lot of drippage going on here and certainly that's a through shot so okay we've got the water the uh the 220 grain bullet is captured in the one two three four five sixth water jug let's cut this thing open and see what it looks like well i got to tell you that was a fun video to make and i really enjoyed shooting that marlin 336 in 35 remington and it sure confirmed my my long-held belief that the 35 remington is a great fun and capable cartridge and just to summarize the ftx bullet um gosh it didn't expand the way i thought it shed quite a bit of weight if it it lost like um uh 80 it was down to 85 percent of its weight at 170 grains and it only expanded to uh under a half an inch at 0.458 the 220 grain spear bullet did quite a bit better it expanded to 0.650 and it retained about the same amount about 84 of its weight but the but it really expanded um significantly and the 220 grain spear bullet did kind of what we expected it didn't expand that much it only expanded to 0.5 inches and but it did retain 90 um 93 of its weight at 205 grains and so it's definitely a deep penetrator and you could see that from the penetration of six water jugs as opposed to four water jugs i believe the other bullets perform penetrated to four water jugs so i just want to say thanks again to rusty thank you buddy for um loaning me or really nice it really is a nice sample of a marlin 336 in 35 remington and i've really enjoyed shooting it and i hope to have one of those someday in my own my own gun closet as they say but i did promise i was going to read the the email from from chris killoy of ruger he's the president and ceo of ruger and he responded to an email that i sent through the tell tell the ceo uh link and that i posted in last week's video and here's what he said he said george thanks for reaching out and for your confidence in ruger and then when we get to the end here it's it's going to kind of some it's going to kind of answer a lot of guys questions about what do we think ruger is going to do with with the marlin brand so let me go on reading it's not very long here we too are thrilled that the bankruptcy court has approved our bid to purchase the assets of marlin firearms once the sale is complete we'll begin the process of relocating the marlin firearms assets to existing ruger manufacturing facilities sometime after that we'll begin setting up production for new ruger made marlin branded firearms and we ask for your patience and continue continued support while we work through that process and then here's the important part our intent is to keep true to the marlin brand and to ensure its 150 year history and great american-made products live on sign up for our email and newsletter list at ruger.com forward slash marlin to receive notification notifications along the way thanks again for your support chris killoy ruger president and ceo so i was really encouraged to get that but anyway i appreciated uh getting a response back that at least addressed uh one of the statements that i made in my email so i know it wasn't a machine generated response and you guys that also reached out to the tell the ceo website probably got um probably got a response back i hope you did so it's been a fun video i hope we tied everything together uh if i were to pick a if i were to pick a bullet for the for the uh 35 remington i think i would stay with the traditional 300 grain round nose i really like the way that sierra pro hunter 300 grain round nose performed and just want to say thanks again for watching and if you ever wondered how i got water in my pumpkins well maybe this will answer the question i'll see you guys in the next video

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Length: 17min 28sec (1048 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 20 2020