After reading all the positive comments about 9.3x62 I had a Shilen select barrel installed on a sako. I didn't have reloading components so I used Lapua 285 Mega factory ammo. Recoil like an 06 with 1/2 inch groups! Where has this caliber been all my life?

Enjoy.

I bought one on a lark ... it was cheap. Is light, accurate, and has very moderate recoil. Good deal.

Had a sequence of problems that required me to take it to Africa last year ... was a wonderful performer!!!! I'm completely convinced too.

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Originally posted by LJS:
After reading all the positive comments about 9.3x62 I had a Shilen select barrel installed on a sako. I didn't have reloading components so I used Lapua 285 Mega factory ammo. Recoil like an 06 with 1/2 inch groups! Where has this caliber been all my life?

I didn't know Shilen was making a 9.3mm barrel - it's not listed on their website...

I love my cz 9.3x62 it is a great little round for sure !!

9.3x62:

You may have to call Shilen but they have them. They require a number 3 or larger diameter. Mine is in stainless.

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Originally posted by LJS:
After reading all the positive comments about 9.3x62 I had a Shilen select barrel installed on a sako. I didn't have reloading components so I used Lapua 285 Mega factory ammo. Recoil like an 06 with 1/2 inch groups! Where has this caliber been all my life?

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Where has this caliber been all my life?

LJS - Like you - I have also been enlightened!


If you think it's a great rifle now, wait until you start killing stuff with it!

Heh. Wait until you shoot something with it. Okie John

Mine is a Santa Barbara Mauser with a 24" CM Douglas barrel. It was part of the reason MStarling was led astray . It thinks it's a varmint rifle, and tries to put everything into little bitty groups at 100yds especially 286gr Barnes X or Nosler Partitions.

yup, wait till you start shooting game with it, your other rifles may become redundant.

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Originally posted by LJS:
9.3x62:

You may have to call Shilen but they have them. They require a number 3 or larger diameter. Mine is in stainless.

Too bad they didn't have it on their website, I like Shilen barrels and may have used them for my last few 9.3 projects. Oh well, Douglas, Pac-nor, Lilja, and Krieger have me covered, but good to know for next time around...

Welcome to the Dark Side of the force

idahoelk101

I always thought the "dark side of the force" were the guys using a 45/70.

ljs..welcome to the 9.3x62 clan. i have a stock cz lux with a 1x4 leupold on it. it's quicking becoming my favorite rifle.

on march 20 i called up a big male bobcat. only took one speer 270 grn thru the shoulders to kill him you'll hear people badmouthing the speer 270 gn as being too soft(and they probably are for big stuff) but i consider them to be THE 9.3mm varmint bullet .

you'll have fun with your 9.3. good luck...bud

I'm one of those guys that thinks the 270 gr Speer is too soft for larger game ... but I'll bet it makes a heck of a varmit load!!!

Glad to find a use other than paper for them.
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I guess I screwed up, I've been shooting coyotes with 286 partitions, may be a little heavy for smaller varmints like prairie dogs. Elmer would consider this a fine medium range varmint caliber.

jstevens...i think that for something as small as prairie dogs i would back off to a 250 grn ballistic tip. it's just my personal preference, but i don't like to put up with any more recoil than is absolutely necessary. although i've never shot a p-dog, i think a 250 grn bal tip should provide a quick, humane kill, assuming proper shot placement. elmer would be proud...bud

The first coyote I shot with it was about 220 yards, fell over against a grass clump and died with all four feet straight up. This was with a 286 gr NP, as he was wandering around in the middle of a herd of our cattle, didn't walk out and see where I hit him.

just for the sake of posting a pic...here's the bobcat i killed the other day with my 9.3

I love both my Sako Mannlicher and CZ 550 FS in this caliber....this cartridge fits both these rifles so well......accurate and deadly....