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Any 9.3x62 shooters on here?
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<blockquote data-quote="comen" data-source="post: 2839707" data-attributes="member: 52622"><p>I've had a 9.3x62 550 American for many years. It has killed deer, Elk and Bear with dispatch. When the 286 partitions grew too expensive for my preference I shifted to the 285 gr. Hawk bullets with a .035" jacket. I haven't recovered one to see if there was jacket separation in game, but I did shoot a couple into hard frozen green fir logs, and those retained roughly 80 percent weight with no jacket separation. I have used RL 15, H414, IMR 4451 and now ramshot Hunter powders. I was/am able to exceed 2400 FPS with all of these, and get great accuracy. I bought 100 Lapua cases with the rifle and had a neck split, and lost a couple in the snow when hunting. I still have the rest.</p><p></p><p>I did not like the need to mount scopes high so I added a redfield receiver sight and a NECG version of the sourdough front on their barrel band, Stock has been trimmed WAY down and is very slim with a schnabel forend. Weighs 6 lb 10 oz. and I would always take the 9.3 over a .35 Whelen</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="comen, post: 2839707, member: 52622"] I've had a 9.3x62 550 American for many years. It has killed deer, Elk and Bear with dispatch. When the 286 partitions grew too expensive for my preference I shifted to the 285 gr. Hawk bullets with a .035" jacket. I haven't recovered one to see if there was jacket separation in game, but I did shoot a couple into hard frozen green fir logs, and those retained roughly 80 percent weight with no jacket separation. I have used RL 15, H414, IMR 4451 and now ramshot Hunter powders. I was/am able to exceed 2400 FPS with all of these, and get great accuracy. I bought 100 Lapua cases with the rifle and had a neck split, and lost a couple in the snow when hunting. I still have the rest. I did not like the need to mount scopes high so I added a redfield receiver sight and a NECG version of the sourdough front on their barrel band, Stock has been trimmed WAY down and is very slim with a schnabel forend. Weighs 6 lb 10 oz. and I would always take the 9.3 over a .35 Whelen [/QUOTE]
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