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

 

[matthew anderson]

I'm going to Join Toby in the new 9.3 club and in Toby fashion. I finally picked up a Sako Grizzly/arctos in 9.3x62. The wait has been long but I'm glad I have it now. I'm curious what the performance difference will be between this (21" barrel) and my ruger african (24")?

 

[TOBY458]

I'm going to Join Toby in the new 9.3 club and in Toby fashion. I finally picked up a Sako Grizzly/arctos in 9.3x62. The wait has been long but I'm glad I have it now. I'm curious what the performance difference will be between this (21" barrel) and my ruger african (24")?

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You’ll be hearing from my team of attorneys about the use of my trademark kitchen counter advertising. But maybe since you’re not selling it, we can settle out of court.

But that is definitely a nice looking rifle!

 

[Cooposo]

I don’t know when they released this year’s Ruger No 1, so maybe I’m late to that party. But it looks awesome. And I imagine the recoil in a bare 7lb Ruger No 1 in 9.3x62 would also be awesome.

Ruger® No.1 Single-Shot Rifle Model 21349

ruger.com

 

[matthew anderson]

You’ll be hearing from my team of attorneys about the use of my trademark kitchen counter advertising. But maybe since you’re not selling it, we can settle out of court.

But that is definitely a nice looking rifle!

after my recent purchases, I can offer a half chewed pack of bubble gum and a Pepsi.

Thanks, Toby.

 

[Art Lambart II]

I just got my Zastava 9.3x62 back from the gunsmith last week, it wouldn't feed round nose bullets and needed to be free floated and beded. I mounted a Maven 3x12 on it and we are headed to the range on Saturday to see how it shoots.

 

[medvedhunting]

Doctari culled approx six hundred with his 9.3x62

it is more the rifle he purchased than him doing that culling if i remember tge discussion about it.

 

[MS 9x56]

I don’t know when they released this year’s Ruger No 1, so maybe I’m late to that party. But it looks awesome. And I imagine the recoil in a bare 7lb Ruger No 1 in 9.3x62 would also be awesome.

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Ruger® No.1 Single-Shot Rifle Model 21349

ruger.com

In 9.3x62 that will be a real eye opener

 

[F. Vaccaro]

That #1 is beautiful, but I'll bet recoil is too?

 

[Odinsraven]

In 9.3x62 that will be a real eye opener

9.3x74r is perfect. Why 62 ?

 

[MS 9x56]

9.3x74r is perfect. Why 62 ?

Because Ruger doesn’t offer the number 1 in 9.3x74r to my knowledge.

 

[Odinsraven]

I have had a couple of them thru my hands - over the years indeed just shipped one to a customer last week !

 

[mauser98]

Because Ruger doesn’t offer the number 1 in 9.3x74r to my knowledge.

They have offered the No.1-S in both the 62 and 74r a few years back. I've owned the 74r that I bought new from the dealer. Shot well, but I prefer bolt rifles, so sold it.

 

[festuscat]

I have a #1 in 9.3 x 62 with a regular stock and pleasantly surprised about the recoil.
It does not have a tropical bbl, it does have a small Leupold fixed 2x scope.

 

[leslie hetrick]

no one told this cow a 9.3x62 would not do her in. but it did. MS in 9.3x62.