9.3x62

[KurtC]

This was a Brno 22F that I had Griffin & Howe rebarrel to 9.3x62.

 

[KurtC]

A few more...

 

[Fatback]

My 9.3x62 is on the far right. I had it made a couple of years ago. I just had all 3 of my stainless/laminate stocked Ruger M77s cerakoted. Left to right are 30-06, 25-06 and 9.3x62.

I currently am having another 9.3x62 being built in a LH Model 70 action. That will be a walnut and blued rifle. I’ll post up a pic or two once I have it in hand.

 

[Gert Odendaal]

Always a delight to look at all these beautiful 9.3x62 caliber rifles.
Mauser 9.3x62 Musgrave barrel, Turkish Wall-nut rifle stock, shoots beautifully and is accurate open sights .This will remain an open sights hunting rifle .

 

[Daryl S]

Especially nice, Gert.

 

[7x57Joe]

Very nice looking rifle Gert!

 

[Newboomer]

Very nice looking rifle Gert!

There is just something about the 9.3x62 that really struck a chord with me. I had a plain CZ and it was one of my favorite rifles, the way it felt, handled, accuracy. I need another gun like I need a hole in the head but if MRC ever builds one I would be very tempted. I don't hunt anymore but I'd love to have one just to play with.

 

[jcs271]

I tend to agree, the 9.3X62 really is about the perfect cartridge for up here in the Rocky Mountains. I took mine for a walk yesterday, pretty spooky not seeing a flake of snow in the mountains of northwest Montana in mid December. I was doing a bunch of calling for wolves, never saw or heard one but I did bump into a nice cow moose with a several month old calf.

 

[Daryl S]

Would have been a 7 month old calf, born in May, usually. Good to see the wolves didn't get it through the summer. Without the calves, we run out of moose. That country-side looks like a LOT of places around here where we hunt moose.

 

[Rare Breed]

I tend to agree, the 9.3X62 really is about the perfect cartridge for up here in the Rocky Mountains. I took mine for a walk yesterday, pretty spooky not seeing a flake of snow in the mountains of northwest Montana in mid December. I was doing a bunch of calling for wolves, never saw or heard one but I did bump into a nice cow moose with a several month old calf.

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I have really fallen in love with the caliber!!!

 

[Newboomer]

I tend to agree, the 9.3X62 really is about the perfect cartridge for up here in the Rocky Mountains. I took mine for a walk yesterday, pretty spooky not seeing a flake of snow in the mountains of northwest Montana in mid December. I was doing a bunch of calling for wolves, never saw or heard one but I did bump into a nice cow moose with a several month old calf.

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Beautiful. Really like the gray laminate.

 

[Mike996200]

Lots of threads here on "show us your".........hunting knife/double rifle/shotgun/hammer gun. How about showing your 9.3x62. I don't have one to post but would like to see what models, custom or not, forum member have and enjoy. I'm thinking of going that route and need some "eye candy"!!

 

[thoma018]

Nice, nice rifles. Thanks for sharing those!

 

[Daryl S]

I have 2 9.3's. Had one apart at a friend's residence to glass-bead blast it for re-finishing. It was the Oberndorf rifle with a nice walnut stock with the raised side plates ot the early guns. The barrel was originally about 23 1/2", but back in about 1982 when I bought it, the muzzle was rusted up, so I shortened in to 22" and put on a new ramped bead front sight. While the rifle was at the friend's shop, he went into a rough divorce. I ended up losing the rifle, but it resurfaced as the barreled action, no bolt & no other parts about 8 years later and I go that back. It now resides in a plastic stock, with a SantaBarbera Parker Hale bolt, so is nothing to look at. Still shoots well. My other one is a Zastava barrel I bought and put on a Mart 10 action. It also resides in an old plastic stock. The only interesting thing about that one, is that the barrel is a pencil weight and 24" long. It's ammo fits the early Oberdorf but not the other way around.

 

[thoma018]

interesting story, if that rifle could talk what do you suppose it would say…?

 

[Daryl S]

Darn thing shoots under an inch with those soft 270gr. Speers. Actually, the sized down .375" bullets: 235 gr.Speer, 225gr. Hornady and 300gr. Hornady an 300gr. Interbond all shoot under an inch along with the DWM 293gr. TUG's & 232gr. Norma Alaskan bullets. The elevation of successive groups of all of those different bullets, is about 4" at 100 meters. Like all of my .375's to date, there is no horizontal dispersion in the groups from just one sight setting. Thus, the 9.3 shoots all loads into a vertical group of 4". Incidentally, the Norma Alaskan 232gr., not the Oryx bonded, have a jacket thicknes sof 1/16". THAT's thick for a guilding metal bullet.
I have wondered if anyone else's 9.3x62 does this.

 

[Daryl S]

Here is something might be of interest concerning the 9.3 calibre bullets.
Just click on the image to expand it.

 

[John Telford]

Better make sure your Safari operator and PH are ok because in SA it is not legal. Other countries I do not know. I would like to use mine on my next trip if the PH is ok with it

Legal in Botswana but not RSA.

 

[Milan]

Legal in SA in some provinces I think

 

[Milan]

In RSA provincial legislatures make exemptions on private lands.
At least they did in 2014.