DPCD fit this nice 9,3x62 barrel to my Brazilian M1908 Mauser action. Barrel is 25" long. I like Mannlicher stocked carbines, and I have a very nice long blank from Walnut Grove that has been sitting in the shop for a year or more.

Would you make it a carbine for the handiness, or leave it at 25" and find something else in the rack to do a Mannlicher on?

I have a nice GEW action that is color case hardened and engraved sitting here looking for a long term relationship with a good barrel and that blank.

IMO 9,3x62 do not need so long barrel, for example SAKO 85 full stock carbine 9,3x62 has 20" barrel.

To my mind a Manlicher says carbine! I'd go with a 20 inch barrel..

The 9.3x62 only responds to a long tube with the ultra heavy and lone 320 gr. Woodleighs. With 286s and below there is little difference in velocity, and the 9.3x62 won its alcolades with slower bullets with lots of lead showing..

Today the 286 gr. Nosler partition is and awesome bullet with a world of penetration as are the GS Customs monolithics and Flat nose solids..The North fork SP and cup points and last but not least the 300 gr. Swift...You need not push any of these bullets very fast at all.

My test show about 100 FPS loss of velocity in the above mentioned bullets in a 20 inch gun, nothing to worry about.

With the 320 Woodleighs I always preferred my 26" Lothar Walthar long skinny barrel, it was a fast barrel and pushed the 320 Woodleighs at an easy 2400 plus just a little and performed wonderfully on Cape buffalo and one one Bison. The full equal to the 375 as far as I could tell. In a 20 inch gun this bullet was tough to reach 2250 FPS but even at that it worked great on big animals like buffalo and Eland.

I am sold on the 9.3x62 in any form.