Craig Boddington was the senior contributing editor of our modern gun and ammunition caliber dictionary. Craig was involved in the development and testing of many of these and writes from first hand experience. This dictionary was written exclusively for Wholesale Hunter with unique information found nowhere else.
GUN CALIBER DICTIONARY
Rifle Ammo
25-35 Winchester
The 25-35 Winchester (25-35 Winchester Center Fire or WCF) was introduced in the Model 1894 Winchester in its second year of production, 1895. It shares the same basic case as its companion introduction, the 30-30 Winchester, and was thus among the first two American sporting cartridges designed for smokeless powder. With Winchester's traditional 117-grain bullet at 2230 feet per second it shoots a bit flatter than the 30-30 and has less recoil...but is not as powerful. It was an extremely popular deer cartridge, chambered in lever actions from Marlin, Winchester, and Savage; and in numerous single shots. Winchester has manufactured recent runs of 25-35 lever actions, and Hornady has recently introduced the first "new" 25-35 load for many decades. — Craig Boddington
