Any Body Use a 9.3x57 Husky on Moose??

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I bought a 9.3x57 with peep sights and was wondering what damage on meat do you get from 9.3x57? Does it drop moose easy? Whats the furthest i should shoot with this calibre? 200Yards max?
 
As long as you don't go through both shoulders bones, expect clean shots from the X57.
With Norma factory ammo, using a 286 grains bullet and if you sight your rifle to hit 3" at 100m (it will provide a 169m ZERO), you can easily kill a moose at 250 meter, but you have to know that your POI will be 11 inches below the sight line at that distance. Past that, you will still kill a moose, but the trajectory correction will be huge.
 
PM Whynot with your questions. He's been using the 9.3X57 for many years in the Yukon and I'm sure he can provide much in the way of practical experience, loads and choice of components for a specific size of game.
 
I'd agree with the 250yd comment above without hesitation. Only gotten one little bull with mine, one 270gr Speer thru both shoulder blades and he was down before the rifle came down. Actually thought he was gone but he fell in a hole. The damage was very minimal. Great little cartridge just watch your resizing of the brass so the shoulder headspaces properly.
 
Boomer said:
PM Whynot with your questions. He's been using the 9.3X57 for many years in the Yukon and I'm sure he can provide much in the way of practical experience, loads and choice of components for a specific size of game.
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My first experience with the 9.3X57 was more than 30 years ago. I had Bevan King barrel me up a pair of rifles on Turkish Mauser actions. I had looked at the anemic ballistics of the factory ammo, purposely kept around 37,000 CPU for the Model 88 actioned rifles, and figured if that got 286 gr bullets over 2000 fps, then 50,000 ought to really make them holler!

Long story short, Ball C2 and magnum primers drove Kynoch 286 gr RN bullets, designed for the .360 No. 2 Express, to over 2300. The bears and moose never knew what hit them. A good friend of mine referred to it as a 358 Winchester Magnum. :)

Today, the 270 Speer at well over 2400 is the easy answer for big game.

Ted
 
You have to be careful or you end up with more meat than you can shake a stick at.

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Well that was painfull, 15 minutes to upload one little pic.

Ted, it was indeed the 270gr Speer. As mentioned it went through both shoulders but in the blades, not the lower heavy section. But still it weighs 205.7grs as you see it here. It also hit ribs if memory serves.
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My Husqvarna 46 in 9.3x57 loves those 270gr speers, and it's a light carrying rifle.

Range wise, the 9.3x57 has more legs than most give it credit for. Those 9.3mm bullets have quite good BC's. As long as the shooter is capable of the accuracy needed, you could definitely flatten your moose at 300 yards with handloaded ammunition.

Here are some numbers (numers aren't the be-all and end-all, of course, especially with larger calibers...)

270 gr., .361 B.C.
Range (yards) Muzzle 50 100 200 300 400 500
Velocity (fps) 2350 2236 2124 1912 1713 1531 1370
Energy (ft.-lb.) 3311 2996 2706 2191 1760 1406 1125
Trajectory (200 yd. zero) -1.5 1.7 3.1 0.0 -12.7 -37.2 -76.7
Come Up in MOA -1.5 -3.2 -3.0 0.0 4.0 8.9 14.7

As you can see, 300 yard trajectory is quite reasonable with handloads, and I'd bet a 400 yard hit to the boiler would put down even the biggest bull right quick.
 
Northman999 said:
My Husqvarna 46 in 9.3x57 loves those 270gr speers, and it's a light carrying rifle.

Range wise, the 9.3x57 has more legs than most give it credit for. Those 9.3mm bullets have quite good BC's. As long as the shooter is capable of the accuracy needed, you could definitely flatten your moose at 300 yards with handloaded ammunition.

Here are some numbers (numers aren't the be-all and end-all, of course, especially with larger calibers...)

270 gr., .361 B.C.
Range (yards) Muzzle 50 100 200 300 400 500
Velocity (fps) 2350 2236 2124 1912 1713 1531 1370
Energy (ft.-lb.) 3311 2996 2706 2191 1760 1406 1125
Trajectory (200 yd. zero) -1.5 1.7 3.1 0.0 -12.7 -37.2 -76.7
Come Up in MOA -1.5 -3.2 -3.0 0.0 4.0 8.9 14.7

As you can see, 300 yard trajectory is quite reasonable with handloads, and I'd bet a 400 yard hit to the boiler would put down even the biggest bull right quick.
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I had some 250gr Accubonds left over from my x62, I bet they would carry out to 400 very nicely if one can go that untraditional. They have .494 BC
 
Boomer said:
Noel, that pic belongs on the cover of a book . . . a thick book illustrated with some of your other photos! Over the years some of the pics you've posted have been pretty good, none have been poor, but that one is great.
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Why thank you for that note. Nice to hear when they are liked.:)

Will my 8x57 Mauser round kill moose too?
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Anything x57 will kill a moose, 6mm rem, 6,5x57, 7x57, 8x57, 9x57, the one in topic, and even the 10,75x57. Some just seem more suited to the job. It is personal preference really but many "Elk" have fallen to the 6,5 in the Scandinavian countries.

I wonder how many 9.3x57's Tradex has sold in Canada? Great outfit by the way.
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I wonder that too, and am quite suprised there is not more threads posted with them being used in the field. Would be nice to hear more feedback on them. :cool:
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Noel said:
Why thank you for that note. Nice to hear when they are liked.:)



Anything x57 will kill a moose, 6mm rem, 6,5x57, 7x57, 8x57, 9x57, the one in topic, and even the 10,75x57. Some just seem more suited to the job. It is personal preference really but many "Elk" have fallen to the 6,5 in the Scandinavian countries.


I wonder that too, and am quite suprised there is not more threads posted with them being used in the field. Would be nice to hear more feedback on them. :cool:
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NICE RIFLE:eek:
 
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