9.3x62 reloads don't fit in mag

[olympia]

My 9.3x62 rounds won't fit in the mag if I reload them and keep them at the specified 3.29", I have to seat the bullet so oal is 3.235" to get them to fit in the mag, what is up with that? The gun is a Mauser 98.

 

[Snider shooter]

Normal. Many times it is not the length given in the book but the length of the magazine that you have to deal with. No biggy.

 

[kawicrash]

You're worried about .055 of an inch??

 

[threecentsolution]

Wait till you try 375 H&H in a Zastava even when they are short enough for the mag they hang up tring to eject.

 

[jethunter]

Happens sometimes.

It's a lot easier to make the ammo fit the gun than it is to make the gun fit the ammo.

 

[Potashminer]

I just checked several Mauser 98 magazines that I have, including German 98 (7.92x57) and Brazil 1908 (7x57) and they measure 3.315 minimum. (A stamped sheet metal one measure 3.360") I also checked several Swede M96 6.5x55 and a Husqvarna 8x57 on a small ring Husqvarna action and they measure 3.236. Any chance that you have a 9.3x62 small ring as I see on Tradex??

 

[Ganderite]

Specified OAL?

That was just a note as to what OAL they used for THEIR gun. You have to set the specified OAL for your rifle.

 

[Potashminer]

I am almost certain that if you have a 3.235 magazine, you probably have a Mauser, but not a 98. Husqvarna made and sold many rifles commercially, made from or patterned off the Swedish 94/96/38 actions that were made by Carl Gustaf armoury and by Husqvarna. I believe their Model 46, 146 and some 649's were all chambered in 9.3x62 and would have had 3.235 magazines. My Husqvarna is apparently a Model 640, chambered in 9.3x62 on an FN Mauser 98 action with the 3.315 magazine.
SAAMI does not and never did apply outside USA, and is not even mandatory there - it is a voluntary standard. Sweden does not even belong to C.I.P., so have always had their own standards. Otto Bock, in Germany, is credited with developing the 9.3x62, in 1905, specifically for use in the Mauser rifles then readily available. If you go through the NORMA reloading information, the longest loads are shown as 3.228", so no idea where SAAMI came up with their maximum length of 3.290.