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I love my 9.3x62 and blame John entirely for my acquiring it.
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Funny, an old "working" cartridge, originally designed to build inexpensive, functional and practical rifles for colonists in "Darkest Africa", which, we are told, actually did all and more then it was intended to, is now the "hot" round among those who, usually, can afford and do buy about any rifle/chambering, that they desire......
Almost every serious rifle nut I know here in BC, and that is a considerable number now owns or is getting a 9.3x62 and a few also have the more powerful Brenneke version as well as the rimmed 74mm one. I cannot recall, in my now 55 years of shooting, ANY crartidge becoming as popular among genuinely knowledgable shooters/hunters in only a few years.
I now have four fine rifles so chambered and have sold three others as my advancing age and wife's serious medical issues motivate me to slowly sell off my gun collection. I tend to carry a "medium bore" rifle, when working in the bush or solo hunting and I can see a time when I will a 9,3 or two and a Grouse gun and just do my "geezer" hunting so armed...and, be quite content with this choice.
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Well, that keeps the extra money in your pocket and if at some future date you need to pick up 0.009" you can still buy that rifle at that time. Being a tad more impulsive and "wanting" a 375, I got one a couple of years ago. If Id had a 9.3, Id probably do as you have. Yours is still a good decision.
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I love my 9.3x62 and blame John entirely for my acquiring it. Mine's probably a lot like John's rifle but I don't blame him for me buying it. I blame the old guy that sold it to me  ....He's also a gun rag writer and has actually used my rifle in Africa a time or two...Damn good cartridge and the CZ550 doesn't have any flies on it as far as I'm concerned...
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 havent been to Africa yet, IMHO anyone doubting the 320 Woodleighs in the 9.3x62 at 2400 fps musta picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.  At only 50 thou smaller in dia and 80 grs lighter, it mirrors the vaunted .416 400 gr load at 2400 fps, one of, if not the best penetrating load/loads [soft/solid] ever developed. I have shot a few head of dead cattle with my load, IT IS A STRAIGHT LINE PLOW, no doubt about it for me. And where legal, I'd be glad to use it on Cape, Water, or Bison buffalo, then fill a nice bag of plains game. Gunner
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I think the one guy at the root of the 9.3 popularity is Chub Eastman, He wrote at least two good articles on the 93's before the real boom ( so to speak ) started. Of course, part of the popularity is how well the various 93 cartridges work, and have worked for so many years.
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I think the one guy at the root of the 9.3 popularity is Chub Eastman, He wrote at least two good articles on the 93's before the real boom ( so to speak ) started. Of course, part of the popularity is how well the various 93 cartridges work, and have worked for so many years. That's what John says when accused of bring the 9.3 to the forefront. He's quick to give Chub all the credit, but I guess Hillary was right when she wrote, "It Takes a Village"...  I've read a lot more JB stuff than any others on the 9.3. I had heard of Chub Eastman, just never read his 9.3 work. So, John can't dodge all the blame...  DF
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I've been reading about various 9.3's most of my life. JB just made it easier to make the move to get one.
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Finn Aagaard had a great article on the 9,3x62 also.........soooo, Finn, Chub, and JB all take the blame for 9.3 addiction.
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I havent been to Africa yet, IMHO anyone doubting the 320 Woodleighs in the 9.3x62 at 2400 fps musta picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue. At only 50 thou smaller in dia and 80 grs lighter, it mirrors the vaunted .416 400 gr load at 2400 fps, one of, if not the best penetrating load/loads [soft/solid] ever developed. I have shot a few head of dead cattle with my load, IT IS A STRAIGHT LINE PLOW, no doubt about it for me. And where legal, I'd be glad to use it on Cape, Water, or Bison buffalo, then fill a nice bag of plains game. Gunner Gunner, Leave it to you to turn a mild mannered, great shooting round into a mini-.416 Rigby... But how many Okie Ranchers tool around their property, busting rocks and other targets of opportunity with a .505 Gibbs...? You just ain't right, dude...  DF
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DF, I rely on the infinite wisdom of posters here at the 'fire such as yourself to tell me something I dont know.  Hole-diggin armydillers and a 500 nitro are fun too. Gunner
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Gunner,
I've had the pleasure of shooting a Merkel .500NE, helped a good bud reload for one. Never touched off a .505 Gibbs. Agree with the .500 being good 'diller medicine. Gibbs could be overkill, if there is such a thing. Dead is dead regardless how it happened.
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The Gibbs running the 600 gr Woodleighs at 2450 is a real boot, I've backed them down to a more sane and sedate 2200 fps, not so bad at all.
The Merkels are some fine little rifles, my 500 Nitro was built by Alfred Schilling on a Merkel action, lovely little rifles indeed.
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The Gibbs running the 600 gr Woodleighs at 2450 is a real boot, I've backed them down to a more sane and sedate 2200 fps, not so bad at all.
Gunner Sounds like you're getting soft in your old age...! DF
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No, the 600 gr Woodleighs at 2450 are, they'll make ya a nice lookin copper and lead pancake at those speeds , at 2150/2200 their purty descent plows. Gunner
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That's the old addage of soft bullets being upset by too much velocity, resulting in less penetration.
The old timers shot their .404J's and similar at around that speed, evidently with good results. Then those rounds were bumped to 2,400 or so, presumably using slightly tougher bullets for more knock down power.
Pushing the 9.3x62 to 2,600+ fps, bullets like the 250 NAB and 250 TSX come into their own. Same idea with the various .375's.
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As Kutenay pointed out, the 9.3 X 62 is VERY popular in B.C. And, as I've researched this fine cartridge in the past few years, I've discovered it has been a favorite, if not overly popular, rifle in Canada for at least a-half century, especially across the North where larger, sometimes dangerous game are encountered. There's a fellow from the Yukon who posts on here and has made a name for himself in using and promoting the 9.3 X 62 for over thirty years! Due to his posting on a favorite Canadian forum, and killing a large grizzly in the Yukon last year with one of his, including pics and load, there is no rifle-cartridge for larger/dangerous game in Canada that is more popular! Just about everyone from coast to coast is making a run on them and they are getting scarcer by the minute! My own opinion is, after a couple of years use, that it is about as ideal as it gets for a one rifle/cartridge do-it-all kind of thing... and I've come to that conclusion after owning, handloading for and using many medium-bore rifles, including .338s, .358s and .375s. It literally will do it all... IF the shooter knows what he is doing! Bob www.bigbores.ca
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As Kutenay pointed out, the 9.3 X 62 is VERY popular in B.C. And, as I've researched this fine cartridge in the past few years, I've discovered it has been a favorite, if not overly popular, rifle in Canada for at least a-half century, especially across the North where larger, sometimes dangerous game are encountered. There's a fellow from the Yukon who posts on here and has made a name for himself in using and promoting the 9.3 X 62 for over thirty years! Due to his posting on a favorite Canadian forum, and killing a large grizzly in the Yukon last year with one of his, including pics and load, there is no rifle-cartridge for larger/dangerous game in Canada that is more popular! Just about everyone from coast to coast is making a run on them and they are getting scarcer by the minute! My own opinion is, after a couple of years use, that it is about as ideal as it gets for a one rifle/cartridge do-it-all kind of thing... and I've come to that conclusion after owning, handloading for and using many medium-bore rifles, including .338s, .358s and .375s. It literally will do it all... IF the shooter knows what he is doing! Bob www.bigbores.ca I was in wholehearted agreement until I got down to the 375 part. .
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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Gunner,
I've had the pleasure of shooting a Merkel .500NE, helped a good bud reload for one. Never touched off a .505 Gibbs. Agree with the .500 being good 'diller medicine. Gibbs could be overkill, if there is such a thing. Dead is dead regardless how it happened.
DF Gunner might as well just run them down with his pick up. Probably about the same ft lbs of force but easier on the shoulder 
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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There's a fellow from the Yukon who posts on here and has made a name for himself in using and promoting the 9.3 X 62 for over thirty years! Due to his posting on a favorite Canadian forum, and killing a large grizzly in the Yukon last year with one of his, including pics and load, there is no rifle-cartridge for larger/dangerous game in Canada that is more popular! Just about everyone from coast to coast is making a run on them and they are getting scarcer by the minute! www.bigbores.ca That guy is as bad as John, Finn or Chub!
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