I would like to find an alternative to the 286grn Barnes X for my 9.3mmx62..The Swift A frames come highly recommend and I believe they are available in .366. Does anybody know the importer in the UK?

The Partion is another thought, but I would really like to try a bonded bullet if I could.

Regards,

Pete

Pete,

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool reloader and have had great success with the 9.3 250 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip on Wild Boar & Stags.

As for factory ammo I have on the odd occaision used the Blaser CDP ammunition in 9.3x62 and found it is suberbly accurate and delivered the advertised performance as well. Since it's a European product it may be easier for you to obtain and is a very obvious partition type bullet. I have never recovered one of these bullets since they have always shot through game but the results have been gratifyingly dramatic without blood shot meat, net Partition performance!

Below the link for the Blaser website with their UK dealer (in Weybridge) and the following for the ammunition description.

mailto:sales@beechwoodequipment.com

http://www.blaser.de/english/produkte/accessories/cdp.htm

Good Hunting!

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Originally posted by Pete E:
I would like to find an alternative to the 286grn Barnes X for my 9.3mmx62..The Swift A frames come highly recommend and I believe they are available in .366. Does anybody know the importer in the UK?

The Partion is another thought, but I would really like to try a bonded bullet if I could.

Regards,

Pete

Pete,

Reloading Solutions in Oxford or York Guns in ....York. Be prepared to get in the car.

They're available in 250gr and 300gr - no 286gr.

You can forget Beechwood (sorry Gerry) the most clueless and slow importer the UK has even worse than Dynamit Nobel (min order 10,000cases!) and I don't think you're going to get any factory ammo anywhere.....

If you're planning on shooting UK game I STRONGLY reccomend the 232gr Norma Vulkan or if available the bonded 232gr Oryx. Very accurate and plenty tough enough - if one of those failed on UK game I would eat my hat! Again Reloading Solutions.

BTW a bonded bullet is not necessary in the 9.3 in the UK, even the 270gr speer will fell a few saplings after passing through a big fallow!

Good luck

1894mk2,

No offense taken, just trying to be responsive to Pete's request for a partition or bonded bullet in this caliber.

I simply took the info off the Blaser website, you guys have to know your own industry reps in the UK - I fortunately get good, responsive service in Germany.

You are correct though - don't count out the "lesser", standard, vanilla-flovored bullets. I've also used the Speer 270 grainers with good success on Roe, Fallow, Stags and Wild Boar. While everyone seems to bad mouth them because they don't cost $3.00 each and supposedly don't retain 99.9% of their weight after being shot through a vault door, they sure kill stuff dead for me, too! Also accurate with the right load. They are the first bullet I started with in the 9.3 and I still shoot a couple hundred a year for practice. If that is what I had loaded at the time and someone suggested we go hunting - I'd take 'em along.

It's not the bullet I'd take to Africa for large antelope or to Sweden for Moose but at the end of the day countless thousands of Africans shoot their antelope and larger game with vanilla-flaovred PMP's in 9.3x62 and don't give it a second thought when they deliver their game to the slaughter house.

Geko, RWS, Norma and others all make solid good-performing 9.3x62 ammo that doesn't cost as much nor is as "exclusive" as the premium fodder. Apparently not all's Hoyle in the global distribution world as we attempt to find products offered, either.

Thanks Gents,

I have some Speer 270grns, but as yet i am not getting much luck developing a load..the results seem very inconsistant with some groups at under 1" but the majority at around 1 3/4"..

I wanted to try some bonded bullets simply to see what all the hype is about and to develope an alternative "premium" load to my Barnes...

I totally agree such loads are not need for the quarry we have in the UK but who knows what the future holds!

Regards,

Pete

I bet the 286gr Oryx is very good indeed - again RS in Oxford. The 286gr partition is probably the best all roundr however. It expanded on a muntjac for me and yet shot into ply and wet paper at 2,200fps was a picture perfect buff bullet.

Gerry - Blaser has given great service from the factory (courtesy of Darren) but Beechwood is 'sleepy hollow'

It is really sad how firms such as Norma, RWS and Blaser have such poor UK distributors - there really is a business opening here I think!

286 gr Woodleigh Protected Point. If it is good enough for buffalo it should be good enough for a stag.