Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles TAC in the 9.3X62mm

Greetings all,

I'm aware of MD's great work on 9.3X62mm loads but now, with some TAC on hand, wonder whether anyone has experimented with it in the 9.3X62?

Thanks in advance.

I was going to try TAC since it worked so well in my 358 Win. but, I found two different loads using Ramshot Big Game that worked really well in my CZ 550.

TAC is a really fine powder for the 358 Win with 200-225s, also 250-260s in the 350 Rem Mag based 375. The 9.3x62 falls right in the middle of those and should work decently to very well with TAC.

It also works very well in the 9.3 Barsness-Sisk wildcat, which is the .350 necked up to 9.3, which has only slightly less case capacity than the 9.3x62.

I've somehow never gotten around to trying it, mostly because the 9.3x62 works so well with a wide variety of powders. TAC is my choice in the 9.3 B-S because it's so dense, which helps in loading the short case, especially with heavier bullets. In the B-S I use 58.0 grains with 250-grain bullets, which would be a good place to start in the 9.3x62 with 250's. With 286's I'd drop down to around 54 grains as a starter charge.

Thank you very much MD, Klik and Biggs. Thus encouraged, I will have a go. Somewhat tangentially, and because you folks are using TAC for other things, it is so far yielding impressive accuracy in a .338-06 NULA with 160 grain TTSX bullets.

Thanks for that info. It doesn't surprise me much (especially in a NULA), but out of curiosity what charge/primer are you using?

58 grains of TAC, CCI250 primer. Around 2900 fps.

Came across this the other day regarding tac, big game, Hunter , etc...
http://blog.westernpowders.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/9.3x62-Data.pdf