Although I own a 9.3, I'm with Magnum Bob on this, the 9.3 was not a huge step up from what the '06 does with heavy bullets. I did have one of my Alaska friends say he was glad I brought a 9.3....because he just hated it when a shot moose ran (usually into the swamp or a willow thicket) because it didn't know it was dead. He kinda thought that when a moose was hit with a 286 gr, they just just stood on the spot, mulling over the death question...and then just fell over. But he was not a pro guide, just a subsistence hunter, and not a real gun guy, they were just tools to him.
