Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Express Rifles and Big Bores Only How do you have your 9.3x62 set up?

I agree gunner. That also sounds like a very nice rifle you have.

Thanks BSA, she's one of my favorites, now if I can just find a critter in Okleehoma that will contain one of those Woodleighs. lol

Not going to happen gunner .. You might have to line them up like milk jugs..

A six-pak of bucks in a corn trough.

Alright, I'm a sucker for these 9.3 threads. Especially when the OP is asking for pics. Here is mine, right after I got it. It was set up with an older leupold M8 4x. I shot it that way and decided I needed more power (creature of habbit and poor eyesight I guess). This one also has the rear express sights and front fire sight:



I've tried the VX3 1.5-5x20 like some of these guys here and decided I didn't like it either. This was on my old 375 H&H for a little while:


Here are both rifles in the same pic. The 9.3 is shown with the 3-9x40:


I used the 9.3 on a cow elk hunt in 2012 and it worked great:

She didn't stop the 286gr partition either.

This is how the rifle shoots. It was glass bedded by some guy they call BSA:

Oops, forgot to add there are no cherry picked groups here. This is what it was during load development. I settled on the 59gr. charge wt of RL15 for the 286gr. partition:



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I've since switched scopes because the old American made Burris had been on 7 confirmed rifles and finally started to go south. It was always my "go to" scope for a new rifle because it always held POI so well. The eyepiece/power adjust ring became loose and the POI started to vary. The new Burris that I installed is basically the same thing (an older American made FFII) and is rock solid. Good enough to shoot this kind of group:

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The first 5 shots were well within 1/2", so I figured I'd send another 5 down range. This is something I've been extremely impressed with when dealing with the 9.3x62mm. I am thinking the OP will also be extremely impressed with his 9.3, it's a good one!!!!

I can see that damn Partition way over-penetrated too.

You mean waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over penetrated.....

Nice rifle and nice shooting BSA!

Sidepass' 9.3x62. I'll post a photo and let him give the details.

Looks like a nice set up to me.

DF

With a gun shooting like that, who needs to "cherry pick" groups. They're all pretty good.

Seems most 9.3x62's are good shooters, appears to be a forgiving and friendly round to work with, not too unlike the .308.

DF

That's a beauty!!! I like it.

In my best jeffo tie-dyed rainbow voice.

Maybe an old range bull, sorta gone rogue, one that you're mad at, can't pen with horses or 4 wheelers...

Then, you have the loader tractor to hoist him up, shoot him a few more times before the skinning shed autopsy...

Then, you'll know for sure and can report...

DF

No, I'll wait till the dead of winter and choot a froze rock solid dead one.

Thanks DF, I'll have to find the photo posting info.
FN commercial action from a JC Higgings 270 donor. Action sent to jkob and he added a Shilen #3 @23 inches , timney @ 3lbs and a side swing safety in about 2 weeks. I the shipped it off to McMillan for a Mark X stock standard fill. Charley Santoni did the cerakote to look like bluing and bedded the action in the stock while he had it. Leupold 3.5x10x40 CDS in Leupold QR's.
Likes 250 Accubonds @ 2600 and shoots 286's and 270's equally well. Have hammered steel out to 600 with it. Easily my favorite rifle in my safe.

jkob is a master Mauser smith, having done a couple of projects for me. He's known for his Mauser side swing safety conversions.

Good choice and looks like Charley did a great Cerakote job.

JB's 250 gr. NAB load for the 9.3x62 is hard to beat for long range, IMO. The 9.3x62 isn't known as a LR round, but can get it done as you've noted. And when that big bullet gets down range, it still has some "juice"...

DF

Yeah, cattle prices are way too high for that kinda experimenting...

DF

No scope, one fixed rear sight. For hunting pigs in our tropical jungles.

Husky 9.3 x 62 FN action

That old Husky is gorgeous. Looks 95% or better.