How many have used this bullet and how was the performance? Check out my post in the Medium Bore section"further adventures with the 9,3X74R. The American, and other, hunters that have not tried the 9,3X74R [or the 9,3X62 for the bolt actioned trash ] are missing out on a very fine cartridge.

I like the "step" in their jacket because it produces a very cleanly cut entrance hole which is not prone to closing and which produces profuse bleeding.

In my opinion they expand very little at 9,3x74R velocities. I have found lighter, softer, faster bullets to be better killers.

I have used the cartridge quit a bit almost exclusively on driven wild boar hunts with an ocasional red dear and roe deer taken with it.

I also used it to take two very large black bears in Vancouver Is.

My bullet of choice, the one which gave me the best results was the 247 grain Kegel Spitz from RWS.

Regards.

montero

One of my friends used to shoot them in his 9,3x74R but found them a bit too "hard".
He now loads his ammo with 286 grain partitions and is very pleased with them as they give better expansion and still more than enough penetration.

BTW Just came back home from Poland where someone else shot a fox with his 9,3x74 and TUG. Apart from being stone dead, it did hardly any damage to the pelt of the fox and it looked if it was killed with a FMJ.

I have killed a fine bull moose with the RWS loaded TUG bullet. I think it was 293 grains, not the 285. Expanded the back half nicely, and hte front kind of exploded.

My 9.3 shoots the TUG bullet better than the nosler partitions, at least with the three or four powders I am going through the ropes with.

The NP did not converge at all.

Both shots into the ribs, took out lungs. Moose walked about 20 yards and collapsed on a cut bank above an accessible road and we backed up the guides truck, dropped the tailgate and loaded the bad boy in.

I shot one moose with a TUG from my 9,3 by 74R and then went on to trying woodleighs at 286 and 320 grains.
The TUG was perfect for the moose and the way it is often hunted. (brushy dense forrest) The reason I went on to other bullet makes and types is that I just like to try other bullets.

Because it is very hard the TUG doesn't come apart that easily if you are out of luck and it hits a branch or two on its way to the animal.
the moose I shot came by me at max. speed and ran about 150 m. after being shot. The bullet first hit a small twig then entered last rib and passing allmost through it angeled at the far shoulder. It did'nt come out on the far side but stayed in.
Perfect. (in my humble opinion that is)
It didn't damage exessively either, like you see with softer bullets like the Norma Alaska, for instance. Nice clean kill. The fact that the moose ran 150 meters is of no concern at all, They tend to do that, it is even seen with roedeer. Good Bullet.
K&B Niels

This all blends in with what I�ve heard: 293 TUGs and other 286 grainers are for big game. Shoot at Moose and have success. Shoot at smaller pigs ( "�berl�ufer" ), and they seem to be tough. They keep on runnin for long.

Solution: for lesser game use 232 grs Norma Vulkan or similar. Keep the big ones for the big ones.

Waidmannsheil! Hermann

I have heard good things about it it should work fine on larger game. I only use 286 in my 9.3x62