A nice barrel threaded for LR mauser and chambered for 9.3x62 happened my way. It has nice NECG sights, folding leaf rear and barrel banded front with flip up moon bead. The sights are already fitted. The barrel is already shaped and filed smooth. It is ready to install, polish, and blue.

I also have a Santa Barbara action (Spain) in the white. This is the same action Parker-Hale was using, including the very same safety. It is made for standard, 30-06 length, magnum cartridges.

What would make more sense?

Find a replacement bolt with standard bolt face to fit the 9.3x62 cartridge and barrel it. I worry about the feeding rails with the 9.3x62 cartridges in the magnum action. Should I?

Fit the barrel to the action and rechamber to 9.3x64. The rim of the 9.3x64 is .496" and rim of standard magnum is .532". I wonder if that little difference will matter.

Find a replacement bolt with standard bolt face and have the bolt face opened to fit the 9.3x64 cartridge, barrel it, and rechamber to 9.3x64.

Fit the barrel to the action and rechamber for a wildcat like 9.3x338 or 338-375 Ruger.

Find a different action for the 9.3x62 barrel and a different barrel for the Santa Barbara action.

Any ideas, suggestions, or advice?

Truthfully, for the price of dies, ammo and brass for the x64. Get a 9.3x338. In the long run you'll be much further ahead.

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Get a 9.3x338

I've considered this too...

I'd get a nice 09' and have it smithed, or FN commercial. Keep it a 9.3x62.

I've got a 9.3x338 and like it a lot, although I haven't shot it much. I have the reamer and dies too.

All are for sale.

I am having a 9,3x62 finished as we speak. Woodwork mostly.

I'd trade that action for a standard and go happy with the x62 cartridge.

Totally agree.

Get it polished and RUST BLUED! Put a really nice English Walnut stock on it. Make it a classic English design or an Oberndorf slab side with schanbel fore end.

A classic like that will always keep its value & will cost you less to build up.

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Originally posted by ColoradoMatt:
I'd get a nice 09' and have it smithed, or FN commercial. Keep it a 9.3x62.

I really like the 9.3x64mm......I think I know what I would do.

If I didn't have a 62 that's what I'd build. Since I have two (and a 74R), I'd build a 64.

npd345,

don't be greedy! You already have a 9,3x62 barreled action waiting for a stock...

Nothing wrong with wanting more!!

I have three 30-06's so a second 9.3 would be right at home.


The stock on the other one is close to done. Fitted and bedded just need some final shaping and then finish!!

Somebody posted 9.3x62 data with Rl17. It turns it into a proverbial Hammer of Thor!

Purchase a 50s era FN commercial M98 action for the 9.3x62 barrel. Sell the Santa Barbara action to offset the cost of the FN action.

I ordered some 9.3x64 ammo to check for functioning. It finally arrived.

The 9.3x64 rim is too small for the magnum bolt face. The extractor doesn't hold it.

The 9.3x64 cartridge is too fat for the standard magnum action rails. The cartridges are difficult to load and jam when working the action.

A standard 30-06-type Mauser action would need both the bolt face opened and extensive opening of the feed rails to work with 9.3x64.

Neither the standard mauser action nor the magnum mauser action is suitable for 9.3x64 without a lot of alteration.

Knowing what I now know, if I wanted a rifle in 9.3x64 I would purchase one already made for the 9.3x64 or I would start with an action designed for 9.3x64. Maybe that's why this cartridge isn't more popular.

My x64 was built on a Brno 600. It required very little work to function.

I guess it's all relative. To me, opening the bolt face and altering the rails is a lot of alteration, as much as would be required to convert a 30-06 action to 300 Win Mag.

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Originally posted by .366torque:
My x64 was built on a Brno 600. It required very little work to function.

No, seriously, not starting anything. I had a Brno 602, 375 H&H, re-chambered to 375 AI. No feed work had to be done.

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Originally posted by .366torque:
No, seriously, not starting anything. I had a Brno 602, 375 H&H, re-chambered to 375 AI. No feed work had to be done.

PPU brass, the best brass on the market, is cheaper and easier to find than .338 Win. brass. 9.3x62 at about $55.00 per hundred, that's even cheaper than 30-06 I think..PPU may even produce 9.3x64, I have and shoot both the 9.3x62 and the .338 Win.btw...Check with Graffs.

If this weighs too heavly on your mind my friend I will be more than willing to negociate a reasonable trade for that hunk of iron that is causing you hours of grief and wasting you time.