9.3x62 cape buffalo

[Sarg]

You know what you need now, Toby ? A leopard-over-bait hunt, in order to go with it !

Yes this would be cool, I shot one of my Leopards with a 9.3x63, one shot DRT.

I think you will also need to mount you scope way forward & have some sort of recoil mitigation with that little girl !

One of the guys in our Big Bore club had a Tikka lite in 9.3x62 & it cut most of the guys in the club who fired it in haste !

I bought one Tikka Lite & it had only fired half a box or less from new, box of shells came with it, owner said too much boot !

I thought Pussy as my other 9.3x62 in light weight Mauser was no problem, well it booted alright & I shoot lots of light weight big bores, so tucked it into a laminate stock & fitted a suppressor, I use very heavy hand loads which doesn’t help but it is nice now.

 

[MS 9x56]

A bit of a thread resurrection to show off my new little toy.

Tikka T3X 9.3x62 with Leupold QD mounts.

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At that weight I bet that rifle is lively with full power loads.

 

[TOBY458]

At that weight I bet that rifle is lively with full power loads.

We’ll see. I’m putting a Leupold 2-7x33 scope on it, so I’m thinking total weight will be around 7lbs. I’ll report back.

 

[Hunter-Habib]

Yes this would be cool, I shot one of my Leopards with a 9.3x63, one shot DRT.

I think you will also need to mount you scope way forward & have some sort of recoil mitigation with that little girl !

One of the guys in our Big Bore club had a Tikka lite in 9.3x62 & it cut most of the guys in the club who fired it in haste !

I bought one Tikka Lite & it had only fired half a box or less from new, box of shells came with it, owner said too much boot !

I thought Pussy as my other 9.3x62 in light weight Mauser was no problem, well it booted alright & I shoot lots of light weight big bores, so tucked it into a laminate stock & fitted a suppressor, I use very heavy hand loads which doesn’t help but it is nice now.

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@Sarg

Utterly magnificent rifle & leopard hide. For some reason, Tikka rifles are immensely popular in Australia since the last two decades. Previously, it was BSA and Parker Hale rifles when I first hunted in the Land Down Under during the 1970s.

 

[TOBY458]

You know what you need now, Toby ? A leopard-over-bait hunt, in order to go with it !

This would definitely be perfect for that!

 

[Odinsraven]

Doctari culled approx six hundred with his 9.3x62