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Yep, a lot of Swedish women hunt -- and a lot of Swedish women are hot.

During my moose hunting here in Sweden, I've found a couple of hot women around the campfire really improves the general atmosphere.

There is a lot less farting than when only males are present.

John in Sweden

Yeah, I would like to fika with her... But seriously, John is telling the truth. Lots of beautiful woman hunters in the Swedish woods. There is a couple in my hunting group and they are just as serious about it as the men if not more. Both of them bring out a 9.3 for moose season. One with a x57 HVA M46 and the other a x62 HVA 1900 - both sub 8 pound setups and no complaints.

Haverluk,

I really like those old HVA M46 and M146 rifles, and they sell for rather low prices in Sweden (especially the M46's "potato throwers" in 9.3 x 57 -- I missed an all-original, unmolested one this summer for the equivalent of $US 135. Sob.

They are light (as you note) and when you pull the trigger on one in 9.3 x 62 you soon know when the rifle goes off.

One of the guys in my hunting team has about half a pound of recovered 9.3 Norma Orxy bullets (those are the bonded ones) from moose -- and nearly all of of them look good enough to use in advertizing.

John

For all around use logical way to go about it is to look at 1.5, 1.75, 2, 2.5 to 6 or 8x with objective lens diameter of 36mm or 42mm. One does not look at brands but for FMC optical elements and largest FOV with plenty of eye relief. I'm going through this process for my .300H&H magnum and for .375 it would work the same. Several years ago the winner was Kahles Helia C it will be interesting to find out who comes out on top this time.

PS. The mounts to use are those made by Weaver. In USA those can be bought at worlds largest supermarket chain called Walmart. Those mounts are light, simple and almost never allow scope to move.

Here with a 2-7x32 Vortex Viper w/C3 reticle but also use a 2.5x20 Leupold M8 w/hvy plex.
Both with steel Weaver rings on Weaver bases. Ammo is either 270gr Speer or Privi factory stuff.

I don't know what it is, but I like all of these 9.3's. My CZ550 really won me over after using it on that cow elk 2 years ago. It's accuracy is also second to none. It seems the cartridge itself is very inherently accurate and is the reason I've been thinking about re-boring one of my model 70's to the 9.3x62. Personally, I think I could chit can everything else and just hunt the world with a 9.3x62....

Keep coming back to this thread is gonna make me dust off my 9.3 and run several of those 320 gr Woodleighs through deer and pigs this fall.

Now we are talking waaaaaay "over penetrate" gunner!!!!!

Hail Yes Neighba, stone dem sombitches.

My setup was CZ550 with Mannlicher stock and 1.5-6x42 in heavy CZ rings. The rifle was very heavy by itself made heaver by my poor choices. If I had to do it over I would pick CZ with plastic stock and light scope from Leupold. I noticed that Leupold truly shines in small to medium sized scopes of light plus solid optical and mechanical construction. I'm surprised to see so many Scandinavian rifles and very few CZ rifles. I thought in USA CZ would be most prevalent weapon in this caliber. Another great rifle was Ruger chambered for .35 Whelen. Nice handling rifle with tang safety plus less expensive and easier to find ammo.

Ruger also made some 9.3x62mm runs. The Africans were beautiful rifles and the gunblast edition is also very nice... I wouldn't mind getting my hands on either one..:

Looks like a good setup!

Ruger made and make very nice rifles that come with quality iron sights. The best I have ever handled was older one chambered for .35 Whelen. Two things made it outstanding tang safety (where the safety should be) and ".30-06 barrel blank" with larger whole through it. A hard kicker the way manly rifle should be.

Lovely rifle. Just a tiny bit of info on picking scope for something like that. Look at pics of rifles by Scandinavians (female shooter).....she picked small light scope with mid size objective lens which is the way to go. The only thing low power straight tube scopes are good for are big bore dangerous game rifles or shotgun slug guns. These make no sense for medium bore or smaller because you are robbing yourself of light gathering qualities and not getting anything else in return. The worst choices are those "straight tube" safari-type Euro scopes with 30mm tubes because those are dreadfully expensive and heavy. Remember it "looks nice on wall" or in net pics on forums should be left to oil paintings.

Exit pupil on a scope with a 20mm objective is 13+ @ 1.5X and 4 @ 5X.

CZ 550FS with steel magazine parts, Leupold M8 4X bought new in 1972, Warne rings. Stock shortened 3/4". Original recoil pad. Set trigger disabled. shoots 1" or less with almost any load.

Speaking of steel magazine parts, I was thinking of buying a surplus M98 follower to replace the plastic CZ follower. Any reason this wouldn't work?

sarco has milled M98 followers for around $10-15.

If you need a steel follower (to replace your plastic one) for a CZ 550 9.3x62 mm, contact CZ and they will send you one.

1917 is right. CZ USA were very helpful on the phone; they not only sent me a steel floor plate and follower, they sent my plastic parts back as well. The plastic floor plate was a bad idea, but the plastic follower worked fine and would save an oz. or two. I went all steel, but it was nice to have a choice.