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Have shot quite a bit of the PPU/RN, but that has been factory ammo to harvest the brass.

Even at the factory pedestrian velocity, it seems pretty soft.

The Speer Hot-cor 270 gr. for bulk reloads is very precise, and should handle anything that doesn't necessarily require a 9.3x62mm Mauser to begin w/.


Not impressed w/ the Hornady 286 gr. used for that wt.'s load development, and have yet to test the A-frames and Norma Oryx, but expect typically good performance.




GR

Well played!

I’ve shot a few deer with them. I’d like to use them on a bear, a hog, or a moose. That rn is a hammer.

Please tell me which "Nosler partition round point" you used. To my knowledge Nosler has never made a round-nosed 9.3mm Partition.

The PPU does fit tight in my shell holder but so does Lapua. I just thought it was a RCBS metric issue. When something costs less it never works out for me.

Explain please. They are no tighter a fit in mine than my NPs.

I have killed several deer and a couple of hogs with PPU 285 grains 9.3 bullets. Can’t tell you retained weight as I have not recovered any. Complete pass throughs and all one shot kills. The best part is minimal meat damage.

Tight in the Shell holder has to mean the PPU brass. IF the writer said what he means. Sometimes it is hard to say it in words when something goes wonky. RZ.

This is a timely resurrection, as I have just gotten a custom 9.3X62 Mauser 98.
PPU 9.3 brass and some 35 Whelen Remington brass for re-forming. PPU-285s and Nosler bullets initially.
Reloading and testing to follow. The 9.3 X 62 has much to recommend it. Almost a 375 H&H in performance-
that can be made in a somewhat lighter custom rifle. Popular in Africa and John Taylor thought well of it.

CZ used to make a 550 American in this caliber. Some of them are still out there.

I inherited my late FIL CZ 550 9.3x62. I need to get a new safety for it.

The PPU 285s just recently from Grafs are RN versions. They will be tested soon
in my custom 98 Mauser. They should function well at the ranges I hunt large game.

There is a long running thread on an Aussie forum that covers the performance of various 9.3 bullets on live game. The author is a down to earth guy that manages a large cattle station in North Queensland.The live game he shoots includes scrub bulls (wild cattle), pigs, wild horses and the odd wild dog. The bullets are retrieved and shown on the thread. The thread has been running since 2013 and covers most 9.3 bullets.

If you want to read it you need to become members (it’s free). Look up ‘Australian Hunting Net’ and follow the instructions to join the forum. It’s currently 480 pages long. The rifle has had an issue with PPU ammunition and is currently out of action for review/repair. There is a separate thread on the incident.

Below is a link to the thread:

https://www.australianhunting.net/index.php?topic=148146.msg2082567#msg2082567

Hodgdon's CFE 223 has produced some higher reliable 35 Whelen safe velocities with 225-250 gr bullets. There is a reference to these results in the July, 2023 issue of the American Rifleman. My 35 Whelen is chambered
in a pre-64 Model 70 Winchester. There is also an excellent 9.3X62 reloading article in the Aug-Sep 2002 issue of Handloader Magazine.

I will be only using handloaded 9.3 X62 ammunition using a variety of Speer, Nosler, and 285 gr PPU bullets for my custom Mauser 98. Next possible bullets to test in this rifle are the Swift A-frame versions.

As to PPU ammunition, powder-load amount and bullet diameter along with case dimensions would be the areas for concern.

The Australian thread cited covers faulty PPU (Serbian) ammunition in a Tikka rifle.

In my reloading of the 9.3X62, I use a variety of bullets by Nosler, PPU, and Hornady or Speer. No Swift bullets-yet.
But the reloaded cartridges I utilize feature quality Remington brass.

450 you didn't read the whole thing. It mainly covers Mozzie's bullets performance on ferals, dogs, and cats. That means range bulls and feral hogs in the mix. He has data on every bullet he could find to load. He changes the title each time he is using a different bullet so the title changes repeatedly. If you have the book on the 9.3X62 by Van Der Schyff it also includes data by Mozzie, Dayne Horrigan. If you are truly interested a lot of data and actual after photos are included. RZ.

Someone else wrote a good book on the x62. Green hardcover?

The 9.3 X 62 Mauser Journal. Third Edition is what I was referring to. By Hendrik Van Der Schyff. From 2021. Dayne Horrigan's data was used in the book with permission. The photos in the book are good but Dayne's photos and text in the 9.3 thread on the Australian Hunter's Forum are unbelievable. You must join the forum to read the thread. It does take a while to read 499 pages. But he talks about and shows photos of shooting varmints and game. It has run ten years or more. It takes perseverence to read all that but he shows the successes and failures as they happen. YMMV but I read and learned a lot. AS an American it took a while to get used to the Aussie speak.
Their varmints are range bulls, feral pigs, wild horses, and dingoes plus the occasional feral cat. So the bullets are tested in a wide range of critters and shot angles. RZ.

I'm sorry, it is on Australian Hunting.net. RZ.