Ammo and reloading components are cheap in comparison to rifles, optics, fuel and time.....which they aint making more of. But yea, dropping 2 bills on a hundred brass can seem like a shot in the nuts. I just take a shot of tequila first, evens things out.
Anybody hunting in Canada with 9.3x62
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What range has he zeroed the rifle? I have hunted a lot with mine, and they are all sighted in three inches high at 100 yards. That puts the 285 gr bullets just a tad high at 200, close to four inches low at 250, and about ten low at 300, depending the bullet profile.
I have never used the 250 Accubond spitzer, but it will certainly be flatter, especially since it can be easily started off at close to 2600 fps.
Ted
tactical lever
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- Fox Creek, Alberta
No, there's quite a few videos I can't see any longer when they are imbedded. Can't upgrade, and it's getting old. I should be able to view it on my phone, though.
Another 9.3x62 fan here... I blame Ted...I bought a nice M98 Husky from him several years ago.
So far nothing has argued with a 250gr TTSX at 2600 FPS. Dead right there, and easy on the shoulder. I even got the special edition Wagner flip-flop recoil pad. Holding up great and works a treat.
The flip flop pad is not a proprietary item with me. Anyone can do it!
Yours was indeed a special edition, as it came installed on the rifle with customer-specified length of pull.
Glad to hear the whole outfit is doing well..... as we knew it would.
Ted
Not that I agree with loooong range hunting but I have been competing in f class for many many years and when the wind is challenging and everybody is dropping scores , I whip out my blaser 9.3 with 50 cm lauf and punch a few holes at 600 yards. So for all you hunters out there it is very capable of doping the wind at 600. I never use it to hunt at that distance because I like to hunt eye ball to eye ball if I can help it. The new long range accubonds are amazing in the wind on paper at least.
I have also switched over to long range accubonds for 6.5 swede for deer in countries where licensing dictates that. Could not have done that 20 years ago.
I have also switched over to long range accubonds for 6.5 swede for deer in countries where licensing dictates that. Could not have done that 20 years ago.
BC boy shooting 300m to 500m with his 9.3x62
https://youtu.be/m8AErpvMTTE
He is ex-military. Language is in Austrian.
https://youtu.be/m8AErpvMTTE
He is ex-military. Language is in Austrian.
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Barnes_270
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- Langley, BC
The flip flop pad is not a proprietary item with me. Anyone can do it!
Yours was indeed a special edition, as it came installed on the rifle with customer-specified length of pull.
Glad to hear the whole outfit is doing well..... as we knew it would.
Ted
Thanks Ted - yes, it's a great combo that is now my go-to for pretty much everything. Put another blacktail in the freezer this season with it... though the second and third tags were filled by my daughter's Ruger compact in 243 (one by her, and the other was my second tag used by an initiation hunter I trained this year). A good season! Hope you & yours are doing well.
Well you are right... don’t need to be rude about it and I don’t assume anything!! I will never shoot pass 180m that I can tell you right here right now! So on a wood bison that have a vital about 30” in diameter I think I will be fine! Ho and I can shoot that rifle with a 1.5-5 20 in an inch at 100m with factory ammo the first time I shot with it! But I’m certainly not a pros and doesn’t shoot 1k round a year, but always been able to fill the freezer to feed my family!
I've found that none of the animals I've ever shot have needed more than one, but a lot of them got more anyway! Life's too short to shoot shells one at a time.
+2 @ 100 gives me -8 @ 300 with 250AB @ 2550fps....22" pipe
I've got a couple 9.3x62 and a 9.3x74 double I am working with, the double is too light (6lbs) and kicks like a mule
Bought a used Sako Bavarian 20" barrel 9.3x62 five years ago, now one of my primary hunting rifles, shooting 270g Speers and 250g Accubonds, I've got both shooting to same point of impact at 200m, 62gr BLC under the Speer and 65g R17 under the AB, this years sight in check, put 10 rounds into a 2" group @ 200m, with five of each, good to go, Carried it most hunting days this year, but the one day didn't, tagged out with the 300.
Bought a used Sako Bavarian 20" barrel 9.3x62 five years ago, now one of my primary hunting rifles, shooting 270g Speers and 250g Accubonds, I've got both shooting to same point of impact at 200m, 62gr BLC under the Speer and 65g R17 under the AB, this years sight in check, put 10 rounds into a 2" group @ 200m, with five of each, good to go, Carried it most hunting days this year, but the one day didn't, tagged out with the 300.
