I have to admit that this one confuses me just a bit.

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Maybe it was built as a companion to the .458 bench rest rifle I found a week or so ago (originally posted under "Big Bores").

I guess it was made for a benchrest shooter that enjoyed recoil - Wait! - it's a heavy rifle, not as much recoil. - Wait! - maybe a hunter who loved to carry bull barrel rifles - Wait! - my brain hurts............................I guess the guy who made it was just NUTS.



I love the 9.3x62 caliber though.

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Originally posted by Riodot:
I love the 9.3x62 caliber though.

I'm with you there, but mine is fairly light with a trim barrel.

Maybe the builders of those rifles saw the old Weaver adds where Slim Pickens had a large target scope on a 458.
Seriously though, when I was in Vietnam, the 4th division sniper school was playing with the 458 as they thought it might do what the Barrett now does. I also hear Russia is using some 9.3x64 sniper rifles as their answer to the 338 Lapua.
It takes all sorts.

Must be some BIG groundhogs in Virginia

But who am I to quibble with my 12 pound AR-15 and 8 pound 9.3x62?

Look, locals don't even know what 9,3x62 is. Find me one shop in VA, USA that has a box of ammo in stock!

PS. Thay hunt those half wild pigs on game farms from stands there, so it might be of some use to a lazy fart, provided it's accurate enough, of couse.