Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles 13 years hunting Alaska with the 9.3x62

Alas I do not have a 9.3x62, but I do have a beautiful custom Mauser in 9.3x64mm Brenneke that needs to draw blood. Unfortunately I am at work and don't have pictures of it at the moment. Love the 9.3's

Alright, you guys win.
Boxing up the LH M70 to be transformed by JES.
Already picked up some ammo and 5 fit nicely in the mag.

Good move. You won’t be sorry.

Wow great pic's and the read is making me profoundly regret selling my CZ 550 American 9.3 x62 to a neighbor, a retired Sea Captain with an All Oceans ticket, when the VA doc's in Dallas kept saying I needed to have a major surgery on my right right shoulder to get rid of a fist sized possibly dangerous tumor. I had traded for CZ couple years earlier with a shop in Arlington TX when my old friend, the SAKO Collectors Assc guy from Ft Worth was putting together another Africa trip for Cape Buffalo and thought there might be space for me if I wanted to go.

That CZ was the most accurate NIB BIG caliber rifle I had ever shot. Back then I had been a SAKO Rep for Stoeger in 5 states for 6 years and shot a lot of new to me rifles. Retired and moved to the lake cabin when the medical issues I'd become saddled with became a problem . When I first brought the CZ home I scoped it up and found some Privi ammo on line to go with the small stash the dealer had sold me with the rifle, found a small private range in a guys back yard, outside of Sherman TX only to get there and find No Range Master and nothing a very muddy field & backstop with no tables or any shooting stands. Found a piece of cardboard to lay down on and set up some targets at 110 paces. First 5 rounds went 3 touching and 2 @ half a bullet width away and called that good enough, with a couple AH's raining hot AR brass on people everywhere. Never got to go to Africa, and sold most of my rifles after the surgery proved to be what the VA doc's had predicted.

Couple years I won a TxP&W hunt as last hurrah before any doable recovery from the surgery on one of the premium State Parks where you have to shoot to qualify being allowed on the Hunt at this Park...and had a major laugh at listening to the side bet's by the Park Rangers about the tiny size of the 5 round group of my "elephant rifle" and the size of the bullet holes. Told them to just show me the supposedly monster sized hogs they were complaining about and I'll handle it. My neighbor later showed me pics of a sounder of some very very large porkers he'd laid down with a minimum of shots.
Ron

Thanks to mainer_in_AK for starting this thread. A lot of great information here from experience, not regurgitated “internet folklore”. My 9.3 and I are ready for bear season here in the Commonwealth. Little black ones, but that will have to hold me until I get back to Kodiak Island.

That reminds me, I need to put my “excess” Sako AV in 375 up for sale . . . Don’t really need it any longer!!

Conversing about Bill Wilson's (wilson combat) favorite rifle, a ruger 77 in 9.3x62, I recieved a reply from a feller up in the northwest arctic.

Please excuse the english and grammar. Having lived in the Northwest Arctic, yah dont need good grammar up there:


Rom:
"Guiding in the arctic preserve 1 mile from the Red dog mine for Moose with a stupid client that was told don't bring a deer gun 30-06 which he did bring then shot a Hugh Yukon moose with 69 inch spread horns, this moose fell over only stunned because the 180 grain Nosler 30 cal partition bullet only traveled 4 inches into the moose never even coming close to any vital organs . I walked up to the Bull Moose that looked dead but then it got up charged me at 20 feet, I raised the CZ 550 in 9.3x62 from the hip with no time at all I was hit in the face with the horn as I jabbed the CZ 550 9.3x62 rifle barrel into the moose brisket and FIRED ! The old Moose died instantly falling dead on top of me injuring my leg that folded behind my back . It took 45 minuets to get the moose off of me as I was pinned from the waist down under the moose. At that time my 9.3x62 CZ 550 was loaded with commercial Norma 232 grain Vulcan bullets. We found this Norma bullet under the skin in the hind quarter expanded to 50 caliber . The bullet had traveled from Brisket to hind quarter stopping under the skin leaving a 2 inch bulge. After that hunt again the 9.3x62 Mauser saved my life and clients life's against wounded Brown bears . I have a love affair with Big large bore rifles but that 9.3x62 Mauser I can't explain why it is so affective in killing really bad angry animals ! ??? I want to warn anyone going Moose hunting in Alaska, these moose are horrible for looking dead until you walk up to them, then all hell comes to you in 1500 pound of angry moose, over and over I have see moose that looked dead get back up then come at us . When a moose is down and you feel something is right shoot the freaking moose again !! I had a client turn [bleep] on me because I insisted he shoot his bull moose again because I could see it breathing, so I shot it with the 338 win mag then it got back up charged us then took the clients 300 win mag 2 more bullets to drop this moose, it freaking terrorize us for that fast moment ."



My appologies to the 180 grain nosler partition fanatics, that it only penetrated 4 inches before turning to a fragmented pancake

Good advice mainer, people don't understand how big these animals are. They're reading too many magazines about moose taken with a 243 or 270, which they are. But if going to Alaska, why wouldn't you bring a big boy. Down here in Colorado we have moose in many of the mountain towns and if you see one on the path or road, you basically turnaround. Seen many tourists get charged, one hurt bad. And these are lower 48 animals, just sayin.

GREAT THREAD!

Hip

Tikka T3 Forest in 9,3x62 with Aimpoint Micro: 6.3lbs

To light?

Mainer- you still shooting that .410 wildcat?

Notice any difference between it and the .366 bullets on animals?

Is that a Boyd’s on the 2nd rifle from right?

Madmooner,
Here yah go:


https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbt...41-vs-358-9-3-on-bull-moose-observations

Little rant about the 9.3 bullets from PRVI:

Though I recommend these affordable bullets and have had great luck with them, there's one thing I don't like about them:

Occasional flyers due to inconsistent jacket thickness. It's not enough to matter within 150 yards. But it's enough to be a clear miss or a bad shot out at 300 yards, like what's commonly found here in treeless Alaska, caribou hunting.

If yall think a hunt might require a shot beyond 200 yards, double check the accuracy of your prvi handloads before you have to rely on them. We all know factory bullets can go sub par when machines, tools and dies go awry by a mere thousandth of an inch or a tenth of a grain.

i use the Husqvarna m46 in 9.3x57 with 275gr WFN GC and 280gr RN GC in IMR4895 with 8x57 Prvi cases necked up. i hunt for 150lbs + whitetails and black bear up close. i have been taking it out for 4 years and i got 3 doe (25+/-, 30ish and 55ish yards). every deer didn't go anywhere but down after the shot. i guess it is going 1800-1900fps, i never chronographed it.

i had the bolt bent, D&T for a scope mount, Leopold 2-7x, Bueler safety, Dayton Traister replacement cocking piece with spring and a recoil pad. the Dayton Traister is a cock on opening, the original cocking piece is a cock on closing. it was just to hard for me to do a COC, i had a stroke about 11 years ago and that left me without the use of my right arm/leg.






i used 286gr Prvi RN when i was fireforming 8x57 Prvi brass to 9.3x57. i also have some 30-06 brass that was reformed and fireformed to 9.3x57. i never knew about Prvi bullets as i like cast. i like the Prvi brass, 7x57, 8x57, 6.5x55 and 7.65x53 Argie.

in my groundblind my furthest shot is 150ish yards, but it is really like 30-40 yards. i set up in the brush and trees.

North man let us know what you think of 9.3x62 in that 6.3 lbs Tikka. I would be very interested to know. Thank you.

I have recently go into 9.3 myself. I enjoyed your post and thanks to some fellow campfire members I’m all
Set up with dies brass and a bunch of bullets
I have yet to find an owner of this chambering who doesn’t love it
I listened to a podcast with Kevin Robertson
An old Africa PH. He had one in a loaner rifle
That took somthing like 500 Buffalo. Sorry not sure the exact number
His take on it was it outperforms a 375 in the field
Maybe not on paper but on meat for sure.

Loved this thread. Been considering a 9.3x62 for several years and am finally gonna bite the bullet and sent my 270 down to JES for a rebore. Should have it back just in time for bear season and will probably take it to the coast to try on Roosevelts this fall. This thread was a fun read. I plan to load the 258gr Hammer Hunter in my rifle. I really like the monos. The Hammers have all shot excellent in every one of my rifles and load work up is quick and easy too. There's a gentleman hitting accuracy at 2765fps with that 258gr bullet and running ballistics shows it's still pushing 1800fps/2000ft-lbs out past 500 yards!
Should be a fun rifle to chase bears and elk with this fall, especially after reading about how y'all have used yours over the years.

Resurrecting this, as I’m planning a 9.3. I’d remote, but afraid my 270 barrel won’t have enough meat, as I’m hoping to thread it for a suppressor, too. I guess I can double check it.

Good idea! This guy caught a 286gr Nosler the other day, quartering to at about 30 yards while I was still-hunting. What rifle is the .270 you're thinking of re-educating?

FN M70 Stainless….you might be familiar with those.