My opinion will not come from experiance with a 35 Remington, but from testimony of a very trusted friend and my exaperiance with the 357 magnum, loaded with hard bullets, the best being the 180 gr FN, driven at 1800 fps. (No expansion.) It is good for game out to a solid 200 yards, and the farthest any animal has traveled after taking a chest hit is about 20 yards. Wound diameter is always around one inch straight through, and large bones are broken without stopping the bullet.
The fastest one can drive a 20 bhn bullet and not get expansion is about 1900 fps, which the 35 Remington will do with a 200 gr bullet, with no stress on the gun. This would increase the effective range considerably, with effective killing punch out to at least 300 yards, but trajectory would probably become an issue at ranges past 250 yards and for some well under 200 yards. I'm a firm believer in learning to feel where a bullet is going to land, by shooting at targets which allow one to see where the bullet impacts, and with a bit of playing, most people will have no problem on coyotes and larger animals out to 200 yards.
Because of the above 'belief' of mine, and the fact that every leveraction I've ever played with, with the exception of the Savage 99 in 300 savage, is very sensitive to change in load, be it velocity or bullet weight, I prefer to develop a hunting load that works and shoot nothing else in that gun. Yet, plinking loads make a lot of sense during the 50 weeks of the year when most people will not be pointing their rifle at big game. For this, just use the same bullet as your heavy load, loaded down to something around 1200 fps with a fairly fast powder like H110 or 296, or even something as fast as Unique. Hodgen Universal is my favorite powder for this type load. You can simply leave the gas checks off for your plinky loads, and get excellent results at lower velocity, or have me cut the mold with part gas check and part plain base bullets. I charge $10 extra for this service. If you want to plink a lot, get a 4 cavity with three pb and one GC cavity, and you wont' have to spend much time at the casting pot.
With expanding bullets, bullet weight should be at least 200 grains and 220 wouild be preferred. you can get expansion with cast by using air cooled ww and driving them as fast as you can without getting leading. You'll get by far higher speed with freedom from leading if you use LBT bullet lube, compared to anything else available My problem with expanding bullets in this and larger calibers is that they wound excessively large and penetrate poorly, while yielding slower kill speed than a proper solid, or non expanding bullet.
About the trusted friends experiance with the 35 Rem. Ken spent 35 years in the Alaska bush, with one, and took a Moose every year, with one shot per moose. Never more than one shot. This with factory 200 gr ammo. I didn't ask, but presume that he did all this with only two boxes of ammo and has a handful of cartridges left, as he lived on a very tight budgit and the gun was a tool to him, not a toy. Any argument??