9.3x57 or 9.3x62
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9.3X62...
If you already had the 9.3X57, I wouldn't advise rushing out to upgrade, but since you are buying new, there is no good reason not to get the X62... and I am a huge X57 fan.... I shoot 6mm, .257, 7X57, 7.62X57 (soon) and 8X57... but my 9.3's are on the longer case... In .35's I have long and short and in between.
If you already had the 9.3X57, I wouldn't advise rushing out to upgrade, but since you are buying new, there is no good reason not to get the X62... and I am a huge X57 fan.... I shoot 6mm, .257, 7X57, 7.62X57 (soon) and 8X57... but my 9.3's are on the longer case... In .35's I have long and short and in between.
I would have preferred the 9.3x62 but I got three nice 9.3x57 m96 rifles from tradeex,mainly because they had more of them...frankly,I doubt if any moose is going to go far hit in the lungs with 285 gr of soft lead moving around 2000 fps.and while the extra 200 fps from a 9.3 x62 would be nice,it's not that critical if I do my job
BigUglyMan
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I wanted a 9.3x62 and I wanted a 98 Mauser so that's what I bought. I can't warm up to the M96. If you're going to buy a Mauser why wouldn't you buy the best Mauser you can buy? To me, that a 98.
And why buy a Baby-Wagner when there is the original Wagner?
And why buy a Baby-Wagner when there is the original Wagner?
BUM never thought of baby wagner for a 9.3x57 ... lol that is really a good one.
burnt_servo
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9.3x62 ....
more power and easier to find ammo for .
brass can also be easily made from 30-06 .
unless you find a 9.3x57 on a 98 mauser action cheap .... then have the chamber recut to 9.3x62
more power and easier to find ammo for .
brass can also be easily made from 30-06 .
unless you find a 9.3x57 on a 98 mauser action cheap .... then have the chamber recut to 9.3x62
What about recutting to 9.3x64 Brenneke? Thought I would throw that in to muddy the waters a little further
Fuzzy
Besides rechambering, the conversion would also mean opening the bolt face and extractor, rail and feed ramp mods and perhaps lengthening the magazine box to accept a plus 3.4" cartridge. But by all accounts, the 9.3X64 is an excellent cartridge.
burnt_servo
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the price of brass would also be a big deterrent , assuming one could find some ...... ( I'm assuming it can't easily be reformed from something else ) .
Not so. In '42 - '43, they chambered 227 rifles called model 46AN (based on M/38) in 9.3X62 and from '44 'til '46 they also made +/- 3860 rifles on the model 649 based on the "commercial" M/38 action, also in 9.3X62.
Also, technically, HVA never used M/96 actions; they only used either the M/94 or their own M/38 (and it's "commercial" variant).
FWIW, the rechambered 46 and 46A that TEC sell * rechambered for them * always showed VG marksmanship, whith, unlike the original HVA version (having enlarged mag to 3.240"), the mag enlarged long enough to swallow commercial ammo (OAL 3.291").
While being an avid X62 user, I agree with others that even to it's "normal" loading pressures, the 9.3X57 has nothing to worry about killing power...
