I hope I am wrong but its no longer listed on their web sight.

yeah they droped it was 1 of the worst selling rifles they had any 1 wanting to use a 9.3x74 can do anything it can do and do it better with a 375 h&h i my self have fired and done a bit of hunting with a few 9.3's and wasnt impressed ill stick with the 375 h&H or even better yet a the new 375 ruger will beat it and in a standard length action.

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Originally posted by 700 nitro:
yeah they droped it was 1 of the worst selling rifles they had any 1 wanting to use a 9.3x74 can do anything it can do and do it better with a 375 h&h i my self have fired and done a bit of hunting with a few 9.3's and wasnt impressed ill stick with the 375 h&H or even better yet a the new 375 ruger will beat it and in a standard length action.

I think this quote above is an accurate assessment of why the 9.3x74R Ruger No.1 isn't around anymore as factory produced guns.

I've read lots of folks who say it is virtually the same performance as a .375 H&H. Well folks, it isn't and can't be.

It's a cartridge primarily intended for rifles which are not as physically strong as most .375 H&Hs. It uses lighter bullets, less powder, and has a smaller bullet base area for the powder gas to push against. And in North America, brass is harder to come by, and 10-X harder to buy loaded ammo for.

No matter where else they sell guns, Ruger's primary market is North America, so I can see why they dropped it.

That is no "dissing" of the 9.3x74R. I like the cartridge very much as it is just enough for DG and not too much for camp meat animals, and very easy to shoot well. I have both a Ruger No. 1 and a DR in that chambering.

But one of the reasons I like it is because it fills a 9.3 niche for rifles which perform very much like the .376 Steyr does for .375 H&H owners...effective but not as powerful.

I never expected my 9.3x74Rs to perform like .375 H&Hs. They don't, won't, and can't unless the laws of physics are amended.

And just in case no one ever really noticed, the 9.3x62 is generally factory loaded to higher performance than the 9.3x74R...because it is most commonly loaded for rifles with stronger actions.

Yes, the 375 H&H will out perform the 9.3x74R but I'm glad I got mine. It worked great on a boar hunt last Saturday.

It just never ceases to amaze me that liking a certain caliber on its own merit has become a bad thing in our modern world.

I think that it was a decent, and viable caliber in the Ruger No. 1. I wonder if they may have produced more than they needed to satisfy the demand? Great caliber, decent gun, but not something that just everyone is going to want. Perhaps they will make a run of them every few years?

it was a specialty round in a short run production in a limited market no surprise there

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
It just never ceases to amaze me that liking a certain caliber on its own merit has become a bad thing in our modern world.

Well, I certainly wasn't suggesting a person shouldn't like the the 9.3x74R or not have one. I have two rifles in that chambering, and intend to keep them both.

Also have a .375 H&H and a .376 Steyr and like them both also. So they will stay home too...at least until I am hanging out full time in the marble orchard.

It's just that most folks who only want a single rifle in that power range may select the .375 H&H because it offers them either the same power, or more, depending on the loads they feed it. So, for that and reasons of component availability, it's likely a lot bigger percentage of folks will buy the .375, which Ruger apparently believes too. They haven't dropped the .375 H&H (yet?).

For me, the two 9.3s and the 7x65R are three of my most favorite cartridges...the .450/.400 and the .404 Jeffery being tied with them for all-around hunting honors in my North America gun closet.

But that could change if I ever fall off the deep end and get an 8m/m Newton built!

Even with the factory ceasing production, not a big task to find used No.1 rifle of whatever caliber and rebarrel w/ appropriate extractor. Then you can make with whatever weight, dimension, crown, with or without rib, sights, etc. and have it just the way you want it at a reasonable expense. Find the No.1 good one to customize for whatever.

I suspect we will see a continued whittling away of available #1's in the coming years with the new Ruger.

For those of us lucky enough to own one in 9.3x74R let us hope so...

I'm sad to see them gone, a 9.3x74 #1 has been on my want list ever since they introduced it but not high enough that I have gotten one yet.

I do have a .375 H&H #1 but you can't compare the two rifles, As offered by Ruger the 9.3 had a shorter lighter barrel and I would say that in terms of weight to horsepower ratio you could say the 9.3 out performs the .375 but then again I would just rather go back to my original comment and say you can't compare the two.