Well I've gone and done it and I'm headed down the 9.3x62 road on my Mauser 98 project. Now I will slowly start collecting dies, bullets, brass etc while work is happening on the rifle.
What brass is everyones favorite for this cartridge?
I noticed that Speer makes a Hot Core 270 gr. bullet that is very competitively priced what are some others?
Any factory loads that are reasonably priced that i can shoot up and have good workable brass left over?
Thanks guys I appreciate your input in advance I'm trying not to make the same mistake I did with my first 6.5x55 project. I ended up buying hundreds of rounds of Sellior&Bellot in hopes of burning it up and having decent brass to work with but I've found that brass to be really bad and in 1 or 2 loadings looks like it is about to have a head seperation.

I may have shot as many as 5 or 6 shots of factory ammo all together in my 3 different 9,3x62's so I can't really comment much about factory loads.
Almost all of the loads I've shot have been in Suberb Lapua brass. It's not ridiculously expensive usually $35 to $45 a hundred. It last quite a while. My buddy has gotten over a dozen reloads out of some of his 9,3x62 Lapua brass.
Norma Brass isn't bad but I've had such great luck with the Lapua I wouldn't change if you gave me the Norma stuff........................DJ

Great choice on caliber!
I think you'll find that the factory 9.3x62 ammo isn't really loaded up to the cartridge's true capabillity and hard to find here in the U.S. But once you start reloading it you'll be hooked for life.

Buy the Lapua brass, it lasts forever. I've also used the Graf brass and in 9.3x62 it worked fine, but I got bit with some odd sized 7x57 brass that shot well but required an oversized shell holder and can't recommend them.

The Speer bullet is accurate but I've not shot any animals with it. My rifle likes the Nosler Partition and Barnes X (it thinks the X is a match bullet) so I use them for hunting.

Has anyone around here ever got rid of a 9.3x62 and not regreted the loss?

best 9.3 brass - Lapua

Lapua, but just buy the brass. Their ammo is incredibly anemic. 285@<2200fps

Lapua is the best brass out there.

I would say that Lapua and norma brass is equal. From time to time norma have made brass with lapuas headstamp in 6,5X55, perhaps for more cartridges. Norma has also made brass for the weatherby´s. Intresting, that this old thumper have become popular in the big country in the far west...good for us back here in europe, because then good bullets soon will become cheaper and easier to get. Gratulations to your choice, "she" has served her masters well since she was born.

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Originally posted by Robert Lindberg:
I would say that Lapua and norma brass is equal. From time to time norma have made brass with lapuas headstamp in 6,5X55, perhaps for more cartridges. Norma has also made brass for the weatherby´s. Intresting, that this old thumper have become popular in the big country in the far west...good for us back here in europe, because then good bullets soon will become cheaper and easier to get. Gratulations to your choice, "she" has served her masters well since she was born.

By the way: Snellstrom sounds VERY Swedish to me. Add two dots over "O" and you have "Snellström", or perhaps "Snällström"? Your interest in this cartridge might be genetic

Thanks everybody I've already been looking at Lapua brass but it is about $79 per hundred at Midway right now. Looks like that is going to be my main brass if the price comes down.

Hey Robert Lindberg my name is Nordic and the family history is a little foggy as my Great, Great Grandpa Augustus Snellstrom ran away from home at the age of 14 and boarded a ship in Uniborg Finland. He rambled around the world and started a business as a packing company in the Klondike then started a logging and lumber business in WAshington and Oregon. He said his roots were Nordic and Belarus.
Thanks.

Huntington's has it for $70.98 per hundred. I must have been thinking about another caliber earlier. It's worth it even at a higher price.....................DJ

No1; LAPUA ,
No2; RWS,
No3; NORMA.

for plinking...go cheap! Buy Rem 35 Whelen brass at Cabela's for $35 a hundred and form it.

Rich
NRA Life Member
DRSS

I forgot about the availability of alternative brass I fire formed fifty pieces of 30-06 brass into 9.3x62 and used each one four or five times before going to RSA in 2004. It worked fine with my RCBS dies and saved wear and tear on the Lapua stuff.

If I decide to take the rifle on a big hunt in the future I'd probably use some of the plentiful -06 brass for practice loads again.

hth

I'll be using either Norma or RWS brass in my ugly custom 9.3x62mm when I get to Africa in May, 2007.

LLS

I can't comment on the brass, but I've been shooting Prvi Partizanfrom Graf and son. I cought it on sale about a year ago and bought a case of it and I'm glad I did. This stuff shoots sub MOA out of my Mauser.

Terry

I've reloaded a good bit for my 9.3x62 with excellent results in terms of number of reloads with both the Norma and Lapua brass. However, the Lapua stuff I've bought has been extremely uniform in weight - I'm going that way the next time I need brass.

You may save a couple dollars on the Lapua brass from Graf's over Midway. I've found both to be very good companies to deal with.

Phil

I noticed that Graf's has 9.3 bullets for $20/hundred

9.3 Bullets

A close friend reloads for a 98 9.3x62. He is most happy w/ Lapua brass. He keeps it very simple using a 286gr Nosler Partition loaded up to standard velocity. It is very accurate and works well on game animals. His only issue to date has been w/ Rel-15. He did his load work for cold weather which proves way too hot when the temps go above 70deg. Because he likes to use one load for everything, he's switching to a less temperature sesitive powder.

GVA

just a personal note: my CZ FS 9,3x62 went a tick over 2500fps and 1.25" 3-shot groups earlier today with a load consisting of the 285gr Nosler PT in front of 57gr of H414 in Grafs brass. Velocity and group size are almost identical (less than 20fps and 1/10" @100yds)with the $19.95 per hundred PRVI (Austrian) 286gr bullets also available at Grafs. Load both bullets and feed them interchangeably...even at 200yds the composite group was under 2". The 2500fps MV and ME are all you will ever need. I would be perfectly comfortable shooting cape buffalo or even elephant with Nosler load...nothing against the PRVI bullet, I just do not have any hard data on its performance. As far as factory loads, I have seen four different powders give me 2500fps and sub-2moa 100yd 3-shot groups and factory loads struggle to hit 2400fps.

www.grafs.com

regards,

Rich
NRA Life Member
DRSS
Proud CZ 9,3x62 owner and shooter

I've found the RWS to be best but not worth the price -if you can find it. The Lapua is very good and I think better than Norma. I have used some Grafs brass but have not reloaded it enough to know how it will fare. The Lapua easily stands 5 or 6 reloads with the loads I use. (Norma 201,Nosler 286).
Fortunately I bought 500 cases in 2001 when the price was $35/100. I choked when I started looking last Fall.I thought $35 was high!
I have generally been impressed with the Privi Partisan brass and ammo. I haven't used any of their bullets except for practice. It shoots very well.

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
just a personal note: my CZ FS 9,3x62 went a tick over 2500fps

That is a fast load! I'm impressed!!!!!! Is that the "23.6 barrel?
I'm unable to check my 64's velocity for a while. I went with RWS 5341 primers,
RWS brass, 286 NP over 66.5 grains of IMR 4320.

I have used the Grafs brass with no problems at all. I'm on my fourth loading, all the cases are still being loaded. With the price that you can get on the Grafs brass, I'll not be buying any Lapua or Norma brass for the 9.3x62.

lapua brass are the best brass for this caliber

.366 Torque,

she's a screamer. Start at 53gr of IMR4064, my favorite 220 Swift powder, and ease up in 1/2gr increments. Somewhere around 56-56.5gr, and obviously looking for pressure signs, you will see 2540+fps read out on your chrony. At least I did, and the bolt remained an easy pinkie finger lift. Primers were not quite flat. Mine is the FS carbine barrel, 21". Seems to be a fast barrel, and very smooth. I went to the trouble of one-shot and clean for the first twenty shots, then three and clean for the rest of the fifty rounds I had loaded. Temperature never got over 34-degrees any of those four trips to the range. Shoot one, clean and run to the truck. Thaw out, shoot one and clean, run to the truck. The first four shots were getting into the black at 100, then the next six went in right at 1.25". The next five were right at an inch, the next five went just under. The three shot groups were all in the .85-90" range. The load that clocked over 2500fps put three in .78".
The CZ's seem to have very smooth and consistent barrels.

regards,

Rich
NRA Life Member
DRSS
awfully Proud CZ owner and shooter