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I used a .25-35 Contender barrel for years as an IHMSA and hunting cartridge, even wrote it up in Handloader about 20 years ago. The short barrel limited velocity, but the Speer 120BT at 1800 fps gave me several 40x40s and very few rung rams.
I hunted Kodiak blacktails with it a few times, using the Nosler 85-grain BallisticTip at ca. 2300 fps. It worked on smaller deer at under 100 yards, never tried it on anything else. The 117 Hornady RN is supposed to work well for deer in the .25-35 rifles, but I have no direct experience. One would think that a modern M94 could be loaded slightly hotter than manual loads, but the strong tapered case shape demands a very clean, dry chamber.
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