9.3x62

[Bush Buck]

I find this cartridge interesting. I've enjoyed reading the e-book "9.3x62 Mauser Journal" and I've done a bit of loading and shooting with mine. I'm considering taking it on a future hunting trip and I'd appreciate you sharing any of your experiences with this cartridge.

Thanks,
Bush Buck

 

[John Wasmuth]

My favorite cartridge. Lots of power, easy recoil. Herr Bock knew exactly what he was doing when he developed this cartridge. It’s been taking every game animal you can name from elephant to hares since 1905and it’ll keep right on doing it.

 

[CM McKenzie]

It’s my favorite cartridge as well. It’s my go too. I tend to grab my 9.3 for everything. It has never let me down, and it has done everything I have asked of it.

 

[John Wasmuth]

Have to add easy to reload with some really great components available to fine tune it.

 

[93marlin]

It's one that has interested me for quite a while.
I haven't owned one, yet!! I have one of the baby brothers though, 9.3x57, and I really like it. Also very easy to reload with a good selection of bullets.

 

[CM McKenzie]

Have to add easy to reload with some really great components available to fine tune it.

Very good point! Very easy to load for, and easy to find an accurate load for.

 

[Bush Buck]

Thanks for the responses. I'd love to hear some details of your bullet or ammo choices and how they've worked for you.

 

[CM McKenzie]

5 shot group. 62 grains Ramshot Big Game. 286 Gr. Woodleigh RN soft point. Luckily I was well stocked up before they burned down.

 

[John Wasmuth]

Always wanted to try the woodliegh but wasn’t quick enough to grab any before the fire.

 

[CM McKenzie]

Always wanted to try the woodliegh but wasn’t quick enough to grab any before the fire.

I really like them in the 62. They seem to pair just right with that cartridge.

 

[Puddle]

Very easy to load for. I've worked up loads from 185 grain Lapua to 300 grain A-Frame. H4895, RL-15 & 17. There's some 325 grain Oryx that's been whispering "load me, load me", but that'll have to wait until the rifle gets back from it's first overseas trip.

 

[Vanguard2279]

I've had the best luck with Varget and 250-grain Barnes TSX & TTSX and Swift A-frames. I have a Forbes 24B that I had rebarreled by Douglas. I consider it my most useful rifle and would be my choice for a single rifle for plains game with expected shots around 200 yards.

 

[baxterb]

View attachment 5208695 shot group. 62 grains Ramshot Big Game. 286 Gr. Woodleigh RN soft point. Luckily I was well stocked up before they burned down.

good stuff. I use 63gr. What FPS do you get with the Woodleigh

they have rebuilt and are slowly getting back in the game.

 

[WAB]

My wife killed her buffalo with ours with one well placed shot. There’s a hunt report on here somewhere under my name. We’ve killed quite a range of game with it from coyotes to buffalo.

 

[Bush Buck]

I've had the best luck with Varget and 250-grain Barnes TSX & TTSX and Swift A-frames. I have a Forbes 24B that I had rebarreled by Douglas. I consider it my most useful rifle and would be my choice for a single rifle for plains game with expected shots around 200 yards.

I was debating 250 vs 285 myself. It seems that the cartridge would have a nice "point blank" trajectory to 200 yards for plains game using the 250 grain bullet.
I imagine that your rifle is pretty light so the 250 would be helpful for recoil as well.

 

[John Wasmuth]

My best accuracy comes from Ramshot big game and Alliant PP2000MR and a 285/286 grain bullet around 2550 fps. Nothing that has been shot with that has walked away.

 

[CM McKenzie]

good stuff. I use 63gr. What FPS do you get with the Woodleigh

they have rebuilt and are slowly getting back in the game.

Honestly I’ve never put them through a chronograph. I found some accuracy and was happy with the load. They are not fire breathers by any means though.

 

[baxterb]

Honestly I’ve never put them through a chronograph. I found some accuracy and was happy with the load. They are not fire breathers by any means though.

you might be surprised. My 63 gr gets me 2500+ with north forks. That’s a 25” barrel.

 

[John Wasmuth]

My twist in 24 inch barrel is 1:12 with the Shaw barrel, they are slower by 125 fps out of the Zastava 1:14 twist 23 inch barrel.

 

[sgt_zim]

Still haven't shot anything with mine, but I've got really good groups with Hornady 286 gr, Speer 270, an Oryx 285 gr. Hornady and Speer a touch over 2400 fps, and Oryx at about 2250. I just got such an insane group with Oryx at that velocity with 58.5 gr 2000MR I just quit shooting. Another 150 fps really wouldn't have improved performance by a noticeable amount, so I was done.

I forget my load for Speer, but I'm using 62.0 gr of 2000MR with the Hornady.