25-35 Winchester

[Rocky Raab]

I can't recall wher I read it or who wrote it, but some gun writer or other called the .25-35 "the most useless cartridge ever created."

His point was that it is too much for varmints and too little for deer, besides being ballistically crippled.

I think that may have been too harsh by a good bit. In the woods, it'd be a completely adequate deer round with even less recoil than the 30-30. It wouldn't be overly destructive on fur, I bet.

Not something you'd saddle with a monster scope, but with a good aperture sight and a fat ivory bead up front, it'd be primo for close-in running shots - or a treestand gun for a scrape hunter.

Besides...it's a quarterbore!