Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Rebore a 760... Whelen or 9.3x62 ???

I've never owned a 35 Whelen or a 9.3, but each are calling me. Both seem dang near perfect chamberings for coastal elk hunting, especially in a pump action. With holdover dots, they'd work fine on the dry side of the state too.

Jesse at JES is literally "just down the road" so the logistics of a rebore are easy. And, I'm a sucker for the 760 from Remington, especially the "corn cob" and diamond patterns. I have a 760 in 270 which should arrive tomorrow, but am already looking for another.

On paper, the Whelen and the 9.3 seem like peas in a pod. I know the Whelen can throw some heavy lead but the 286gr from the 9.3 seems like one heck of a load.

So, would one be better than another? I'm assuming that the 760 can be rechambered to 9.3 without issue. Oh, I generally start with Nosler for bullets and the offerings seem pretty good for both.

Welcome to my world! I put a 35 Whelen barrel on a mauser action for coast bear and Roosevelt Elk....You won't be disappointed. I've never found an application I couldn't tailor a load for. I'm loading up some 158gr. jhp's for coyotes. WHAT A CALIBER!!! Oh, I endorse the Whelen for Oregon, and anywhere else.

I had JES re-bore a stainless Tikka T3 .270 Win to 35 Whelen, great job and it shoots great! Would make a nice 760 conversion.

Been thinking on do a 760 rebore my ownself since I grew up with a pump shotgun in hand and have been known to try and rip the forearm off self loaders in a duck blind... got a '06 donor victim spotted that was left over from last year at my local Emergency Financial Emporium that'd be perfect...a little rusty with no major dings or dents...just no magazine. But my caliber of choice has already been made in 9.3x62 shooting Privi 285SP's for hogs ...now if I can just get him to budge on the price off of $300 to south of $250 and find a magazine...

Why don't you just buy a 7600 in 35 Whelen?

If you are going to rebore, might as well do a 9.3x62 if there is enough meat on the barrel.

I had a 7600 rebored to a 338-06. I have been satisfied with it.

Read that the 760 sight screws were deep enough to prevent reboring to .375 don,t know about .366. I know .358 is no problem. Ask Jesse

I had a Rugr 1B reebored to 9.3x62 with no problems.

But will the 760 magazine manage the 9.3x62s? IIRC the 780s have dedicated 35 Whelen mags which suggests they are caliber specific.

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I rebarreled a 760 to .375 Hawk and used factory mags with a little tweeking to the mag. lips. If you rebarrel, you could go all the way to a .411 and have a Cape Buffalo pump.

Either cartridge will work fine, but if reboring to .35 Whelen I'd go 1-14 twist or maybe even 1-12, rather than the traditional 1-16.

I had an older 760 rebored to .35 Whelen by JES for a while. It shots VERY well and I liked it a lot, but somebody ended up liking it even more than me!

I have had more than a few rifles like that.

Have had both. Still have the Whelen. Both are for throwing bigger than 30-06 bullets from a 30-06 case, so might as well go with the bigger of the two while you're at it and do the 9.3mm. Pay attention to the advice about screw holes in the original barrel though. You don't want a rifle with ports two inches in front of the chamber. Also listen to the part about how thin the barrel would be after reboring. A new barrel might be the best advice.

It's too bad I didn't know you were looking for another 760 when I had a pristine first-year production 257 in my possession.

Call me a suckup ;), but I'd have to try the 9.3x64BS (Barsness/Sisk).

Actually they didn't chamber the 760 in .257 Roberts untill 1954 . Production started in 1952 , the only chamberings in 52 were .300 Savage , .35 Rem. and 30-06 .