A rather unusual 9.3x62 from SAVAGE !

11 January 2012, 17:35

45-70 shooter

Is she bright orange too ? Be easy for the "revenoors" to find up in the "holler"

Minox has just brought our binocs in same color scheme. Can scopes be far behind ?

12 January 2012, 04:30

45-70 shooter

Okay talked to Savage today and got the story.
300 each were made in a 8mm and 9.3.
All were intended for export. Somehow the shop I bought mine from got 3 9.3s.
It arrived today and it is cool. The barrel weight is like a 375 H&H, 20", center feed detachable magazine. As I mentioned Miox is now making binocs in the pattern. I'' be contacting (bugging) them to get a scope the same

12 January 2012, 05:50

TC1

Very classic

HAR!

If it shoots and you like it that's all that counts.

Have fun with it,
Terry

12 January 2012, 06:08

tin can

quote:
Originally posted by TC1:
Very classic HAR!

If it shoots and you like it that's all that counts.

Have fun with it,
Terry

12 January 2012, 07:16

45-70 shooter

Yup that's why we play with guns!

12 January 2012, 09:47

FOOBAR

You're right about the center feed models, Jason. I have one of those Axis in 25-06 with a center feed clip. I liked everything about it except the flexibility of the stock and that POS add-on looking trigger mess. Wish I could find an aftermarket Axis stock...I'm guessing someone will come up with one soon enough.

Jason, what model number was that center feed 300 WM?

Buds has the Savage receivers in both solid bottom single shot and clip feed for about $450-500 so I might grab one for my 375 Lapua/Rigby "wannabee" project.

I've had a few problems with the old small bolthead pins that cracked with belted mag rounds and cause a bit of a problem, like totally locking up the action...had to pull the barrel, take off the bolt handle and do a bit of wiggling and giggling. Savage fixed that by going to a larger pin and the firing pin is different. If you have several rifles and swapped bolt heads around you will soon get tired of the monkey motiong and just buy a new bolt or two and leave them set up.

Luck

12 January 2012, 19:22

kjjm4

quote:
...At least it will be hard to misplace around deer camp......

I've always thought that making hunting stuff blaze orange instead of camo made good sense. How many camo flashlights and knives do you think get set down in the woods never to be found again?

13 January 2012, 22:19

BlueCan

quote:
Originally posted by kjjm4:
quote:
...At least it will be hard to misplace around deer camp......

I've always thought that making hunting stuff blaze orange instead of camo made good sense. How many camo flashlights and knives do you think get set down in the woods never to be found again?

I actually put a wrap or two of orange or chartruese or pink tape on most of my gear just because of this. Most of my stuff is plain colored though because I don't put $0.02 of value toward having a camo flashlight or knife but O.D. green or black or wood dissappear quickly in the grass and weeds too.

This Rifle????? Not my preference because I like wood but if it is yours, Enjoy!!!

15 January 2012, 01:07

Wstrnhuntr

quote:
Originally posted by vapodog:
quote:
My 99s will probably not speak to it.

Too funny.. Civil unrest in the gun safe.. And for good reason..

Is Savage trying to double down on the ugly factor? And they said it couldnt be done..

Gotta love Savage for reckognizing that "only accurate rifles are intresting". But I couldnt do it.. Orange cammo..?? Isnt that an oxymoron?

24 January 2012, 05:16

45-70 shooter

No Orange camo makes perfect sense unless you are hunting people. Ungulates are COLOR BLIND, the only real reason to wear conventional camo is to avoid other hunters and pesky Wardens.
Remember these rifles were designed for Europe where laws are different and driven hunts are a common event. Even here, in many states, you have to wear a LOT of orange, do you think in your widest dreams that a green rifle will hide you ?
I just ordered a dip it yourself kit, so I can finish the job by doing the barreled action, scope and mounts.
Let you know how it works out in the black timber around Yellowstone where there are other non Ungulates that make a 9.3x62 good insurance.

27 January 2012, 19:32

xausa

quote:
Originally posted by FOOBAR:
By the way HOW DO YOU KNOW, Col Townsend W. "Never shot a modern Savage", Rub Line" The Savage came out 3 years before his death, but it was being develope back prior to 1956. Are you his autobiographer?

I think I can answer that question. Col. Whelen was his own autobiographer, as is usually the case. It's quite unusual for someone else to write another person's autobiography, but I suppose it has been done.

23 February 2012, 00:25

45-70 shooter

Bought a DIY dipkit. Stock is Realtree blaze, kit is Trutree blaze. Now it looks right !

23 February 2012, 05:29

Jon Beutler

That camo'd action should help keep digestion under control for some of our hunters

23 February 2012, 06:15

sactoller

quote:
Originally posted by 45-70 shooter:
Bought a DIY dipkit. Stock is Realtree blaze, kit is Trutree blaze. Now it looks right !

Larry Root, you contaminate every site you visit!

Jason Z Alberts

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you." – Samuel Adams

23 February 2012, 06:31

N E 450 No2

45-70 shooter

I have never had a 9,3x62, but I have shot a bunch of game with a 9,3x74R. They are both excellent hunting cartridges.

My favorite and my favorite 375 H&H both have 19 3/4" [50cm] barrels.

If I ever diod get a 9,3x62 it too would have the 50cm barrel.

The only reason I do not have a 9,3x62 is that I just have so much 375 H&H stuff.

Also if you are going to have an orange stock, the metal might as well be orange too...

Let us know how she shoots.

PS it is hard to beat the Speer 270 bullet for deer and pigs,loaded at 2490fps, but I think in a bolt action the Nosler Partition will work for everything.
I have used it a lot im my 9,3 double.

23 February 2012, 07:53

45-70 shooter

Agree the Speer is the right choice for a double's thin barrels but in Bolt guns, I like TSXs.

3 225s from a 35 Whelen: Moose, Elk and Deer from 100 to 225 yards.

23 February 2012, 08:37

ColoradoMatt

I wanted to get my son a left handed youth model rifle in 204 Ruger for Coyote smokin'. It seems none of the major companies makes one (That I know of). I called up Savage and they made me one up for an extra $150.00 above the price of their standard left handee youth model 111. It's an ugly little beast, but for my son, it was love at first sight. Coyotes beware!

Matt
FISH!!

Heed the words of Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984:

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."

23 February 2012, 23:22

sactoller

quote:
Originally posted by 45-70 shooter:
Agree the Speer is the right choice for a double's thin barrels but in Bolt guns, I like TSXs.

3 225s from a 35 Whelen: Moose, Elk and Deer from 100 to 225 yards.

Old douche, you pathetic little queer! You seem to spend too much time on your hands and knees.

24 February 2012, 01:51

pacecars

quote:
Originally posted by 45-70 shooter:
Bought a DIY dipkit . Stock is Realtree blaze, kit is Trutree blaze. Now it looks right !

Does that mean you have to be a dip to use it?

24 February 2012, 02:29

p dog shooter

quote:
Originally posted by pacecars:
quote:
Originally posted by 45-70 shooter:
Bought a DIY dipkit . Stock is Realtree blaze, kit is Trutree blaze. Now it looks right !

I am normmaly not very picky on how my guns look funtion beats looks any day. But this is almost too much for even eyes.

I would own one if the price was really cheap like hundred bucks or so.

Does that mean you have to be a dip to use it?

24 February 2012, 03:25

N E 450 No2

quote:
Originally posted by 45-70 shooter:
Agree the Speer is the right choice for a double's thin barrels but in Bolt guns, I like TSXs.

3 225s from a 35 Whelen: Moose, Elk and Deer from 100 to 225 yards.

Orange bullets... Now THAT is just TOO much.

But I must say, Well Done.

24 February 2012, 05:23

45-70 shooter

quote:
Originally posted by p dog shooter:
quote:
Originally posted by pacecars:
quote:
Originally posted by 45-70 shooter:
Bought a DIY dipkit . Stock is Realtree blaze, kit is Trutree blaze. Now it looks right !

I am normmaly not very picky on how my guns look funtion beats looks any day. But this is almost too much for even eyes.

I would own one if the price was really cheap like hundred bucks or so.

Does that mean you have to be a dip to use it?

Only you could answer that. All I know is that it will kill anything that walks the earth.

24 February 2012, 07:07

Jon Beutler

quote:
Originally posted by 45-70 shooter:
quote:
Originally posted by p dog shooter:
quote:
Originally posted by pacecars:
quote:
Originally posted by 45-70 shooter:
Bought a DIY dipkit . Stock is Realtree blaze, kit is Trutree blaze. Now it looks right !

I am normmaly not very picky on how my guns look funtion beats looks any day. But this is almost too much for even eyes.

I would own one if the price was really cheap like hundred bucks or so.

Does that mean you have to be a dip to use it?

Only you could answer that. All I know is that it will kill anything that walks the earth.

And if that doesnt work you can always shoot it!

24 February 2012, 08:22

Scott King

Granted I'm in a different region but if I showed up in any kind of public location with that thing I'd fully expect to have the rifle taken away from me and be beaten to death with it. Ammo confiscated by one of my attackers and put to good use naturally.

25 February 2012, 06:25

45-70 shooter

Well, it os generally accepted that Alaskans are different. Anyone who tried to take it away from me in Wyoming, would be on a one way trip to boot hill. Guess we're a bit tougher. LAFFIN !

09 March 2012, 08:24

sactoller

quote:
Originally posted by 45-70 shooter:
Well, it os generally accepted that Alaskans are different. Anyone who tried to take it away from me in Wyoming, would be on a one way trip to boot hill. Guess we're a bit tougher.

Sure Larry!

Nice outfit!

09 March 2012, 23:00

45-70 shooter

Jason thanks for your very adult post. You have been reported to moderation for inappropriate, obscene and off topic posting.

My apologies to any other members whose wives and children may have been exposed to this offensive post.

10 March 2012, 00:38

pacecars

quote:
Originally posted by 45-70 shooter:
Jason thanks for your very adult post. You have been reported to moderation for inappropriate, obscene and off topic posting.

My apologies to any other members whose wives and children may have been exposed to this offensive post.

Hell Larry, all of your posts are offensivem. Especial offensive are your pics of that abortion of a rifle. Your repeated attempts to portray yourself as so many different people is offensive

10 March 2012, 00:51

sactoller

quote:
Originally posted by 45-70 shooter:
Jason thanks for your very adult post. You have been reported to moderation for inappropriate, obscene and off topic posting.

My apologies to any other members whose wives and children may have been exposed to this offensive post.

Is there really, anything more offensive than you? Not likely!

Waiting for your PM and how you are going to report to the police and FBI....If anything, you are good for a laugh!

10 March 2012, 04:02

45-70 shooter

Welcome to ignore, while other may have to view you spewing lies and filth, I do not.

10 March 2012, 04:04

45-70 shooter

POOF, gone, what a wonderful feature !

10 March 2012, 04:11

sactoller

quote:
Originally posted by 45-70 shooter:
Welcome to ignore, while other may have to view you spewing lies and filth, I do not.

Larry, you told me via PM over ten days ago, that you put me on ignore...were you lying again?

Poor deranged soul...Bricktop has you all flustered!

10 March 2012, 06:40

Scott King

quote:
Originally posted by 45-70 shooter:
Jason thanks for your very adult post. You have been reported to moderation for inappropriate, obscene and off topic posting.

My apologies to any other members whose wives and children may have been exposed to this offensive post.

You submit photos of the dumbest, ugliest, most obscene looking firearm anyone has ever seen anytime anywhere and "report to Moderation," a picture of a weird old guy? Is whining to the moderation an example of your Wyoming toughness?

Your myopia must be nearly crippling if you need that rifle to hunt with.

10 March 2012, 08:01

sactoller

quote:
Originally posted by Scott King:
quote:
Originally posted by 45-70 shooter:
Jason thanks for your very adult post. You have been reported to moderation for inappropriate, obscene and off topic posting.

My apologies to any other members whose wives and children may have been exposed to this offensive post.

You submit photos of the dumbest, ugliest, most obscene looking firearm anyone has ever seen anytime anywhere and "report to Moderation," a picture of a weird old guy? Is whining to the moderation an example of your Wyoming toughness?

Your myopia must be nearly crippling if you need that rifle to hunt with.

Watch out, he is going to call the law on ya!

Just to let everyone know, that photo is of Larry aka 45-70 shooter. He has numerous alias on many sites...

He is one deranged individual.

10 March 2012, 18:02

Bohica

Betcha 100.00 you won`t lose that rifle in the tules!! Sure wish I`d had that one on a trip to Pohakuloa Impact area to thin goats back in 1980 or thereabouts. Put my [camoed] 700 264 under a tree that was a perfect figure 4 and went out to dress a few small goats to take back to the jeep. Hung a red bandanna on a limb to be safe. Got down into the bowl 200 yds away and EVERY tree was a perfect figure four and the bandanna was GONE. Took me over two hours to find the rifle.which had just tipped over and was behind the tree. Never did find the #$%^ bandanna.

Aloha, Mark

11 March 2012, 00:11

45-70 shooter

At least you found it ! Had a buddy (guide) in WY who killed a nice cow Elk for "Home Meat" after he was done guiding.
Leaned his pre war M 70 300 H&H against a tree and rushed to get the meat out before dark (Grizzly country). Next day he said bad words and went back to look for it...no luck.
Happily it was well below zero and when a snowmachine rider found it in March it was still mostly OK. A new stock and it's back in the field. (Small town honest folks where we live)

22 March 2012, 00:26

45-70 shooter

Spoke with Savage today about the failures to feed the last round. They say the use the same magazine spring for everything from the 25-06 to the 375 Ruger. They also admitted they do not function tests their rifles prior to shipment.

Given the weight difference between a 25-06 loaded cartridge and a loaded 375 Ruger, you don't have to be a rocket builder to figure out that popping up that last round out of the magazine for a push feed rifle, will be harder with a fully extended magazine spring, the heavier the loaded round. Savage apparently missed that. They are sending me a "new" spring but I doubt that will cure it. More to follow.

26 March 2012, 01:29

BigUglyMan

My f*ck that stock is ugly! But like the man said, a little OD spraypaint and you're off to the races.

But my f*ck!

26 March 2012, 15:35

boet

My Mama told me that taste belongs in a bakery.
Not too sure, but I think that means that nobody´s taste is wrong even if some find it bad.
Well 45 -70 shooter , I think your taste in that savage is really testing that adage, but I defend your right to have bad taste - if thats what it is.
Thanks for posting this