Over on the east side of Zimbabwe there are those giant, one piece granite boulders. There is one at least a hundred yards high and a 100 yards in diameter.

Just for fun, I shot a 320 gr. Woodleigh solid at the boulder out of my 9.3x62 from about 20 yards just as the sun was rising. The sun may have interfered with my shot but when I went up to the boulder, there was nothing left of the bullet except a blackish spot where it hit the solid granite.

So I walked back and I tried a 350 gr. Woodleigh solid from my 375 H&H. When I walked up to the boulder I was surprised to see a hole in the granite. When I bent down and peered into the hole, it looked like the hole was pretty deep.

At just the right angle I thought I could see daylight in the hole. Looking much closer, the 375 solid had indeed went straight and completely through the hundred yard thick granite boulder as I could clearly see Mozambique on the other side.

And the 375 H&H wins again.

Will,

You are a Bad Boy....go to your room!

So what you're saying, Will, is that we would all be better off with the 9.3x62 because the 375 H&H overpenetrates!

So, the 9.3 is inadequate for charging granite boulders?

Good to know...

Thank God the scores of hunters that have used the 9.3x62 in Africa for decades with good success did not take up the sport of granite hunting. Perish the thought, the results could have been disastrous.

Gentlemen, you do realize that the 9.3s are MEDIUM bores, and as such are not worthy of discussion is such an exalted forum as 'Big Bores'?

George

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Originally posted by GeorgeS:
Gentlemen, you do realize that the 9.3s are MEDIUM bores, and as such are not worthy of discussion is such an exalted forum as 'Big Bores'?

George

That's why they have to add the "vs. 375" element!

I guess there is a minimum caliber requirement for busting rocks........

Will,
Did you have to pay the trophy fee for the other granite boulder you just wounded?

yeah!, well, I get Mac to make me a few solids for my 9,3x62 and I can solve the energy crisis in the US. Point it straight down and do some deep hole drilling...one round at a time.

Rich
DRSS
Knowledge not shared is knowledge lost...

See, we always new, but over here, who the hell wants to see Sweden??

So the 9,3x62 is the logic choise.

Boy, membership in this forum pays for itself again! Once more I have an authoritative answer, so we never need to ask this question again. Forum moderators, please note. Perhaps we should have this thread as a "sticky", so that no one, especially the "newbies" asks this question ever again. IT HAS BEEN SETTLED. As the Pharoh, (Yul Brenner) once said: "So let it be written, so let it be done".
Peter.

Don't ever, ever, ever turn your back on rocks when carrying a 9.3

If you'd used a .416 on the biggest rock, the other rocks would 'learn' not to mess with humans.

George

Just wait until I bring out the .45/70 with Garrett loads! That big rock will not be drilled through, it will be busted up.

Robert,

You're stepping into a pile that has already been waded through many times and found to be eye-ball deep by a whole bunch of folks.

There are two groups of very opinionated folks here on this topic. Those with a lot of real experience on African dangerous game and some of those that have little.

As a newbie, were I you, I'd stay away from this one until I had read a whole bunch of the existing postings before deciding which camp you might want to align with.

Good for you Will, I also hate those damn granite boulders and I shoot everyone I see, however my favorite caliber for Granite is the flat shooting 222 Remington, if works great but you have to really place your shot carefully, because those granite SOBs don't leave a good blood trail on many ocassions! Keep up the good work son!

That granite boulder wasn't in the shape of Uncle Bob posing heroically in his medal bedecked liberation uniform, was it? If it was, I'd like to test some solids on it too.

Namibiahunter

Good one Bent, I agree with you but just on the basis that we don´t need no hole and risking haveing your oil spill through it and all ower our nice country.



How ever you are still one of my top three rated gunsmiths in Scandinavia.

Best regards Chris

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Originally posted by Bent Fossdal:
See, we always new, but over here, who the hell wants to see Sweden??

So the 9,3x62 is the logic choise.

I have experienced similar results with lava and basalt and runaway cement trucks. The 9.3x62 should be left to softer rocks or large objects that have no proclivity for charging. Lou

I prefer the 9.3mm due to the fact that in the communal lands that we hunt Buffalo on, there are villages hidden behind the Koppies that the Buffalo stand buy.
The 9.3 offers far less chance of a shoot through and onwards towards some poor Villager.

Then again I wonder about the difference if bolders would be encountered unavare or when fleeing over 300 m away - God forbid! - charging with their cheetah speeds, pumped with adrenaline, eyes blooded with - you know - "The look"...

Yeah, Yeah, we know....like you owe them money!!!!
Peter.

Please post all .366 caliber thread stuff in the medium bore forum.