There’s a specific reason why we’ve seen a number of great .35-caliber cartridges over the years. It’s because it wasn’t all that long ago that bullet performance wasn’t nearly so good as it is today.

The .35 Whelen started as a simple idea with big dreams. It was born in 1922 as a wildcat cartridge – a custom round made by necking up the common .30-06 case to accept a .358-caliber bullet. The goal ...

Townsend Whelen, who was one of Outdoor Life’s first shooting editors and one of the founders of the legendary gun maker and outfitter Griffin & Howe, wrote extensively about big game hunting from the ...

The .35 Whelen is one of those cartridges you don’t hear much about anymore – and that’s kind of a shame. Born out of the legendary .30-06 case, this wildcat cartridge was created by simply necking up ...