9.3x62 Load
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I have yet to try it but I have seen other forums where guys have used Ramshot Big Game powder and 286 gr Nosler Partitions at 2400+ fps and excellent accuracy. I'm going to test that option as I do like the partitions.
Have you tried this bullet on big game and had a bad experience?
If the 9.3 250 gr AB works as well as the 260 gr AB I used in my 376 Steyr at 2632 fps out of a 21" barrel on bison at 200 yards, then there is No FEAR of trying them on any other big game! The 9.3's numbers hould be very close to the same (within 50 fps).
The big bull took one through the lungs and took 5 steps and tipped over. He raised his head once, and then expired. Complete pentration and no recovered bullet.
A cow bison that my friend shot and wounded with a 358 Win and a 225gr TSX ran about 100 yards and laid down at 200 yards. My finishing shot with the Steyr, penetrated the onside shoulder, the body cavity and ended up in the far hind quarter. It had travelled over 38" of hide, bone and tissue, and had expanded to twice its original diameter and retained over 90% ofits original weight.
A 6x6 bull elk in the rut, took the sme bullet at about 180 yards, quartering away. The AB hit liver, and lungs, broke the offside shoulder at its heaviest point and came to rest under the hide. After penetrating approx. 36" skin, bone and tissue, this bullet also expanded to twice its original diameter and retained 95% of its original weight. And elk has the densest bone of any animal in north america!
I have had equally good success with AccuBonds on animals ranging from antelope to bison, in cartridges ranging from the 270 Win to the 376 Steyr, since it first came out almost 20 years ago.
So in other words, NO, you have not tried this bullet on big game; and have only an inconclusive test of a bullet that exited your milk jugs of water (4th jug if I am reading this right) more than once, for whatever reason, so could not see how it mushroomed and what weight it retained...not sure that I would use that for the basis of telling others to not use that bullet; but this is just my own personal opinion. Could have been a variety of factors...
To be quite honest, I cannot say that any bullet that I have used on big game in 35 years has ever failed to do its job, when I have done mine. I have lost a coule of animals over the years, but attribute those to poorly placed shots, and not poor bullet performance, as the same rifle, ammunition and bullets have accounted for many other animals.
I have seen a friend shoot a black bear, at a moderate range with a 200gr TSX loaded in a 358 Win, at a bad angle. The bear bled quite a bit at first, but after trailing for over half a mile and spending several hours searching, the sign disappeared and the bear was not recovered. He spent severeal days afterwards looking over the area and found no sign of that bear. We just continued to check the area on further ventures over the next couple of weeks with no sign. He is convinced that he made a good shot and that the bullet just did not expand. I personally think it was more a matter of a poorly placed shot that did not hit any vitals. Have seen others use highly frangible bullets on game that completely destroyed the front quarters of those animals, but the animals were harvested. As I do not want to waste meat, I don't use such bullets.
Will say that you did do a great amount of work to perform your testing and did get some good information on those bullets that you did recover. Nice! Would have been a lot of fun! Thanks for sharing!
it is obvious after my test that i will not use that bullet and the smae can be said for the previous ballistic tip if the same 2 bullets do the same in more than one shot i may consider they are not god for what im doing. there is better choice for a 250 grains bullet.
you have no experience either with the 9.3x62 and or accubond in that specific caliber.
but im always interested to read experiences and bullet in hunting mode. i ve got report for the 9.3x57 for muskox and polar bear but a 9.3x57 is not a 9.3x62,
