Guys, if you go all the way to page two of this thread on Paco's Leverguns site, a member found an empty and there is a photo of it in a lineup with other cases.

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Any "new" cartridge is a good thing, I guess, especially if it fills a real or perceived need. At the very least it gives we fickle humans something fresh to swoon over, even if it amounts to re-inventing a very old wheel. (Not surprising since the average American is very shortsighted when it comes to how our forebears did things.)

Will this new cartridge propel bullets through the air into tight clusters on a target any better than what we already have? Probably not. Is there something magical in a bullet midway between .32 and .38 caliber? I doubt it. Should a guy jump on the Buckhammer bandwagon because he's bored? Sure, why not - therein lies the main appeal, methinks. 

I believe the bulk of sales will be in cheap break-open single shots, and lever guns, among the deer hunters saddled with "straight wall" regulations, and a smattering of rifle loonies (like us) who're bored with things as they are and feel like playing with something new even though we know in our hearts that the heavens won't open and the angels sing when we fire that first shot.

As for me, I'll stick with the .357 Maximum (.35-30 Maynard) for utilitarian hunting use where I can't use a 6.5x55, .30-30, or .30-06. Life will surely go on.

I'm kind of interested in it because of the availability of brass and dies. I think it makes sense for a rimmed 35 plain base cartridge  that has the potential to push heavier bullets than the maximum.
And i  sort of like 35 caliber rifle cartridges.

JLouis wrote on Jan 17^th, 2023 at 8:52pm:


I doubt any cartridge could survive as strictly a great match competition cartridge, unless it spanned more than one specific type of competition, or also was a great hunting cartridge too.
Considering this is simply a shorter .38-55 formed down to ,35 caliber, it wont replace the same thing done by forming down ,38-55 to .35 and not shortening them. Which is the basic .35-40 Maynard, or other similar wildcats made from the same basic brass.