[9] 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.

[13] Olive Fredricksen, a widow living with her children in northern B.C., used her carbine to kill moose to feed her family decades ago.

[15] However, this cartridge is not recommended today on moose and elk for most hunters because of its low energy level, the hunting skills required to get close, and the shooting discipline needed to place the bullet well or refrain from firing.

Speaking of the .25-35 skillfully and successfully used by his grandfather in the 1930s to provide food for a household with eight children, Richard Mellon says, "I don't know what ever happened to Grandpa's .25-35.

We judge rifles and cartridges by seemingly irrelevant standards compared to the days when the difference between good and bad was life and death.

It should not be considered identical to the .25-35 Winchester and is not treated as such by the Commission Internationale Permanente pour l'Epreuve des Armes à Feu Portatives (CIP), which has released separate specifications for each cartridge.