rem 35 reloading problems.

[fffffg]

i brought home a rem 35 marlin  336c old style to shoot. it has caused a few reloading problems.. when i seated the bullet 1/16 short of the rifling it would completely colaps inside the case with several loadings(no powder or primer of course)..  when i shortened the bullet (180 grain .357 sierra fpj ) to be in the groove it is about 1/8 to 3/16 short of rifling and that may be ok,only the range will tell that..   the thing that bothers me when i go to pull them they are really in there.it takes about two to three times as man whacks to pull them with an inertia bullet puller... . they still shorten about  .0015 when reloaded several times but that may be ok.. the thing that bothers me is that it may be generatiing too much pressure seated hevily in the connolure.. any comments?? dave.

[Lawdog]

fffffg,

Why not ask this question down on the Medium Bore forum here at Graybeards?  A number of the guys there shoot and reload for the .35 Remington.  Small groups and tight lines to you.  Lawdog
 

[leverfan]

While I've never owned a .35 Remington, I don't see any problem with having a strong crimp, provided that the case isn't damaged and the bullet isn't deformed by some enormously heavy crimping pressure.  

As for seating depth, function comes first, especially in a lever gun.  Overall loaded length is dictated by what functions through the gun.  Some of the bullet profiles that I've used in Marlin lever action rifles have had to be seated very far from the lands, especially in micro-groove barrels, which seem to have the shortest throats in the rifles I've seen.  Group size never suffered enough to worry me, as the loads still easily shot "minute of venison."