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You have me thinking I should try a similar load!  I have 3 loads for my 9.3. The 250AB and 286NP, the third is a 200 grain flat nose Norma over Red Dot as a large 22LR grouse load. Why not a fourth?
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You have me thinking I should try a similar load! I have 3 loads for my 9.3. The 250AB and 286NP, the third is a 200 grain flat nose Norma over Red Dot as a large 22LR grouse load. Why not a fourth? Now that’s the spirit Rick!
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You have me thinking I should try a similar load! I have 3 loads for my 9.3. The 250AB and 286NP, the third is a 200 grain flat nose Norma over Red Dot as a large 22LR grouse load. Why not a fourth? A 95 gr 9.3 Makarov bullet over enough Red Dot for 900- 1000 FPS makes for a dandy small game load too.
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Anyone have any experience with the Privi bullets on big game?
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No experience on game but I believe I read they are fairly heavy jacketed FWIW. I think those RNs are a hammer.
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yukon254,
The biggest/toughest "game" that I've yet taken was a HUGE feral (& very dangerous) Brahma-X bull that a farmer in a nearby county wanted killed (several years ago) because he was tearing up his fences, chasing stock & had even severely damaged cars/trucks on the farm.
(I had no scales available to weigh him but would guess 1500-1700 pounds, live weight.)
ONE 286 grain RNJSP took him down & a pistol shot into his ear from a few feet away humanely finished him off, w/o any further possibility of hurting anyone.
The bull was dressed out & converted into hamburger/chili meat, which was donated to a local BSA summer camp.
My GUESS is that a rifle that will take out such a critter would kill most any game animal, anywhere.
yours, tex
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… Alot of rifleman and gun writers get into this habit to romanticize and sensationalize the 30-06. It's some sort of brown-nosing, group thing. Irregardless of who's in that group, I'd never be without a 9.3, no matter how many boxes of 30-06 ammo are on the shelves. The 30-06 is one boring cartridge. Great for deer and humans, but marginal for everything else ..
What is this. Why need to wrote something like this that aint true at any point.
Just put down moose with my 30-06 T3x. One shot to lungs and it drop to it stands.
When TTSX hit to it look like big hammer hit it and it cant go anywhere. Bullet goes
throw, lungs was totaly destroyed.
Month ago i have in place where my hunting buddy shot little smaller moose with his 9.3.
Nice shot but moose keeps going not far but keeps going.
These two shots 30-06 done job better than 9.3 (no need to romanticize and sensationalize the 9.3)
Ridiculous to write 30-06 is only good for deer and humans.
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.30/06 it will handle anything you want to hunt in the Yukon. That's what I'd pick. Having had both, I like the 30-06 more when its loaded with something like the 200gr partition....There's nothing in the yukon that that bullet is going to "bounce off of"...
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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Yukon,
Congrats on your upcoming 9.3. There are many, many hunters in the Yukon and Alaska, who made the switch from a heavy 375 H&H, down to an equally effective chambering in a lighter rifle. With PRVI brass and PRVI 286 grain bullets, it makes for a very affordable cartridge to handload for. This brass is cheaper than domestic brass, and the bullets cheaper than speers or horndadys, with jackets that are twice as thick.
I too have owned a 375 Ruger. Though I respect the cartridge and rifle combo, the recoil was far more than a 9.3x62. The rifle was also heavy. I didn't keep it.
Keep in mind though, a full power 300 grain 9.3 load will still be quite healthy and require a scope with sufficient eye relief. During prone shots, the ocular lense ever so slightly reminds me it's there, if I my cheek creeps too far forward on the stock.
Alot of rifleman and gun writers get into this habit to romanticize and sensationalize the 30-06. It's some sort of brown-nosing, group thing. Irregardless of who's in that group, I'd never be without a 9.3, no matter how many boxes of 30-06 ammo are on the shelves. The 30-06 is one boring cartridge. Great for deer and humans, but marginal for everything else. You lost all credibility your last sentence You think?
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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I've had the good fortune to enjoy them both, and I would be hard put to choose one over the other.
I think if I did not re-load, I would go with the 30-06.
I handload both.
I typically shoot 168 gr. and 180 gr. bullets out of the 30-06. I shoot 250 gr. Accubonds out of the 9.3 x 62 and 286 gr. out of a 9.3 x 74R.
Not exactly an exhaustive example, I have shot a number of Aoudad. Two in particular were shot with a 30-06 and 180 gr. partitions and 250 gr. Accubonds respectively. Both were at +/- 90 yds., the Aoudad shot with the 30-06 weighed +/- 270 lbs., IIRC. The Aoudad shot with the 9.3 x 62 weighed in at 260 lbs on the dot. Due to the terrain where I hunt, I want an animal to be DRT. The ram shot with the 30-06 managed to run about 80 yds over the crest of a hill. Bummer. The Aoudad shot with the 9.3 x 62 and the 250 gr. Accubond dropped at the spot. Both died and were recovered
This has been the case with the hogs that i've shot with the 9.3 x 62 and the 9.3 x 74R. DRT.
I have also found that with the heavier bullets at say 2,200 to 2,500 fps, bloodshot meat is not as evident.
I can say I have become a fan of heavy bullets at moderate velocities.
ya!
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PS: The 376 Steyr is a pussy-cat!
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9.3x62 with 286 N.P. work great on dinks also.... very little bloodshot meat.  ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/t4pLGdQ7/DSCF0775-1.jpg)
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Mainer in ak has a lot of big game experience with his 9.3. Our experience is with the 06 and 200 or 220 partition. Either are good killers of big game for us. My neck most likely can’t handle the recoil of a 9.3 otherwise I’d be packing one. I mostly pack a Kimber in 308, 200 grain partition at 2525. There are times I wish it was bigger......grizzlies will do that to you
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Look up what your dictionary says about the word irreguardless. Be Well, Rustyzipper.
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A few years back, Doug the owner of the hardware store down in Talkeetna, shot a man with a 30-06 180 grain remington cor-lokt.
Doug mistaken Eric's brown gloves as black tail deer antlers in his rifle scope. He hit Eric center mass and the bullet exited. Eric Had enough lung left to breath-in and yell: YOU SHOT ME!
Eric didnt bleed out and made a full recovery. He's a late 50's Anchorage guy. Old Alaskan men are tough, but not tougher than big bull moose and bear.
I'm relieved it wasn't something higher velocity or larger caliber.
In Iraq, a guy in my squad took a 5.56 fmj through the gut. Almost killed him from the shock of 2900 fps. His organs shut down and he went in a two day coma. He lived.
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Dre,
Perhaps I have the "recoil sensitivity" of a mule but I own essentially identical Model 760 rifles in both .30-06 & 9.3x62mm (that Jessie at JES reformatted) & I can tell little/no difference in the "kick" of the two calibers.
(Actually, I have 3 Model 760 rifles in .30-06, as the Model 760 rifles seem to "keep falling into my lap" at estate/garage sales. = Right now I have 8 Model 760 rifles/carbines in .223REM to my treasured 9.3x62mm.)
Note: One of my "garage sale" pump-rifles is a .30-06 that has a badly pitted barrel.
(The PO shot a lot of cheap/corrosive/surplus service ammo in it & evidently W/O ever cleaning it properly.)
That pitted rifle will soon head to JES to be "reborn" as a .400 Brown-Whelen Improved, which is the most powerful wildcat cartridge that can be formed from .30-06 cases. - The "BIG .400" is the "ballistic twin" of "the well-regarded in Africa" .404 Jeffery, that has been used very successfully on every species of big/dangerous game there. - The .400 B-WI uses the same cast/SP/solid bullets as the .405WCF does.
(Truthfully, I don't need a BIG-bore rifle; rather I just want one & a reformatted 760 in that caliber is A-OK with me for anything that I'll ever hunt in this life. - The .400 B-WI "pushes" rather than "kicks", in the one 9.5# rifle that I've shot in that caliber.)
yours, tex
Just saw this. I ended up getting a slip Over limb saver for my sauer 100 and made a night and day difference. Now I can shoot a box and be fine with out getting punished. I’m glad I got to scratch my thumper itch but I will take 06, 270 or 6.5CM for my deer or elk loaded with ttsx. But..If was I further north, in bear country, the 9.3 with 286 NP would be on the menu. Right. So I have 250 AB at 2600
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All of them do something better than the 30-06, but none of them do everything as well.
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A few years back, Doug the owner of the hardware store down in Talkeetna, shot a man with a 30-06 180 grain remington cor-lokt.
Doug mistaken Eric's brown gloves as black tail deer antlers in his rifle scope. He hit Eric center mass and the bullet exited. Eric Had enough lung left to breath-in and yell: YOU SHOT ME!
Eric didnt bleed out and made a full recovery. He's a late 50's Anchorage guy. Old Alaskan men are tough, but not tougher than big bull moose and bear.
I'm relieved it wasn't something higher velocity or larger caliber.
In Iraq, a guy in my squad took a 5.56 fmj through the gut. Almost killed him from the shock of 2900 fps. His organs shut down and he went in a two day coma. He lived. So in other words don't go hunting with Doug from talkeetna..
Then STFU. The rest of your statement is superflous bullshit with no real bearing on this discussion other than to massage your own ego. Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me.
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In big bear country I would be tempted by the 9,3 but where I live and hunt the -06 has won 4 times and I got another as a gift. Sent two down the road.but no 9.3's on the horizon.
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A few years back, Doug the owner of the hardware store down in Talkeetna, shot a man with a 30-06 180 grain remington cor-lokt.
Doug mistaken Eric's brown gloves as black tail deer antlers in his rifle scope. He hit Eric center mass and the bullet exited. Eric Had enough lung left to breath-in and yell: YOU SHOT ME!
Eric didnt bleed out and made a full recovery. He's a late 50's Anchorage guy. Old Alaskan men are tough, but not tougher than big bull moose and bear.
I'm relieved it wasn't something higher velocity or larger caliber.
In Iraq, a guy in my squad took a 5.56 fmj through the gut. Almost killed him from the shock of 2900 fps. His organs shut down and he went in a two day coma. He lived. So in other words don't go hunting with Doug from talkeetna.. Or if you do, stay immediately behind him.
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All 4 will work and work admirably. It's purely a matter of taste and there's no accounting for taste. At my house, rifles chambered in two cartridges that will never be found are the '06 and the 6.5 Creed. I'd take the 9.3 and the Swede over the other two every time.
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Dave {yukon 254] has serious bear issues in the area of his remote lodge and trap line not just the occasional sighting.
Last time I talked with him,, he was procuring more "bear dogs".
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