*USED* 1894 Winchester .25-35 very rare caliber in original configuration. Manufactured in 1905. Has saddle ring and a leather scabbard. The standard .25-35 Winchester load is about three times as powerful in muzzle energy as the .25-20 Winchester, a cartridge of similar bore size earlier introduced by Winchester. The .25-35 was valued for its speed, trajectory, and lower recoil. It was a popular round in the Winchester Model 1885 High Wall single-shot rifle. In the U.S. Winchester stopped general production of .25-35 rifles in 1955, but keeps producing ammunition. Hornady Ammunition produces a LEVERevolution .25-35 110-grain load with an MV of 2435 fps and a ME of 1436 ft-lb.
The .25-35 can be used to hunt deer, though in common loadings only at close range because of their low energy levels. In standard loadings in a 20-inch barrel, the cartridge retains only about 800 to 900 fpe at 100 yards, or about what its sister cartridge the .30-30 has at about 200 yards. Hornady's LEVERevolution load for the .25-35 (tested in a 24-inch barrel) lists about 900 fpe at 200 yards; and the manufacturer claims the load is suited for deer and antelope.
Grits Gresham tells of watching a father help his two sons to shoot their first mule deer bucks, at ranges of about 75 and 125 yards, with the same .25-35 rifle he had used years earlier to shoot his first deer. Charles Askins, who had used the .25-35 on whitetail deer, later wrote, "The fact that the .25-35 cartridge is now as obsolete as button shoes and coal oil lamps had utterly nothing to do with its lethality. So far as I could see it killed the 160-lb. Oklahoma bucks quite as devastatingly as the .30-30." Some consider it better suited, or suited also, for small predators such as coyotes.
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