Anyone using 9.3X62 maximum plus loads?

[DGY]

lol. No it doesn’t upset me . Just curious. Also curious what work and effort did Ted Wagner put into the 9,3mm?

Ted has been shooting the 9.3x62 and taking lots of game with it in the last 30-40 years. He helped me and many others work up loads, finding what works and doesn’t! He’s an ambassador of the 9.3x62, up here anyway!

 

[9.3 Hunter]

As most of you know, I have been loading and hunting with the 9.3 x 62 for more than 40 years, and posted quite a bit about the cartridge. My load has always been around 2300 fps with 286 gr bullets. Have lost count of how many animals have been put in the freezer with that load. Literally tons of meat.

Most have been taken using plain vanilla cup and core bullets, everything we have up here from grouse to grizzlies. Almost all were taken with a single shot.

Today I took another look at the loads published in the Nosler Reloading manual, and they all seem to be around the same velocity using their partition of the same weight.


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I see loads published in several threads by guys using loads close to 200 ft./s faster with this and other bullets. Any of you using loads that powerful?

Ted

Not I, I have been using the 286gr Nosler max load for RL15 for decades ... shot all my Moose + Elk with it ...286gr for Moose, 250gr ABs for Elk, no recovered bullets either ... in and out and down on the spot. The energy is high, recoil a little stiff, and the results are impressive ✔ Tikka T3 Hunter in a Grade 3 wood stock with a VII Leupold 1x4

 

[708fan]

#### like this doesn’t help.

 

[Longwalker]

Anyone have experience with RWS Evolution Power Bonded 9.3x62 291gr.?

I’ve used that Evolution Power bonded RWS bullet for a couple animals in a different cartridge, .30r Blaser. “Convincing penetration” indeed! Shot right though a bull moose’s shoulders, same with a buck Whitetail deer. Seems to me to be a tough bonded bullet, and does not seem to open very wide from my limited experience. I’d personally reserve that 9.3mm 291gr. Bullet for the biggest critters, and expect it to work well.

 

[Demonical]

With 57.5grs RL15 and a 285 Norma Oryx bullet I've chrony'd those at 2430fps, but it's been eons since I had the 9.3x62 out and I don't remember if it's the bear killer load (although it would be!).
Last time I had her out I took a double on 2 nice black bears, 1 shot each.

A.G. Zella-Mehlis 1936 production.

 

[Why not?]

…. I've yet to try my 9.3 for hunting, but I drew an elk tag this year so that's going to be my elk medicine... provided I can get my scope mounting issues sorted. Reloading my once-fired PPU cases with PPU 286's over Varget.

Trust you got that scope mounted properly and were able to give your 9.3 a try on your elk hunt.

I’m sure the rifle is more than adequate, and am interested to hear how the 286 gr PPU load performed on elk.

Ted

 

[AB3006]

Trust you got that scope mounted properly and were able to give your 9.3 a try on your elk hunt.

I’m sure the rifle is more than adequate, and am interested to hear how the 286 gr PPU load performed on elk.

Ted

Going out in Nov. Scope all sorted, but I still have a whole bunch of factory loaded PPU 286s, so I will use those for now.

 

[Why not?]

Great! Have a good hunt.

God bless,
Ted

 

[BigUglyMan]

You'll likely remember, but I had to run over maximum loads to get anything close to 2400 out of mine. Hell, when I tried the 286TSX I could barely get them to 2000 fps and when I finally decided to abandoned them I had been using a 286gr X-Bullet load of 4350 (significantly higher amount of powder than the TSX) that had the case so full that the bullets stuck in the seating die trying to compress the load. After I switched to the 285 Normas that you gave me I got to 2350 using a couple of grains over the max charge of RL15 (I believe). Not sure what I would have to do to get those bullets 100 or 200 fps faster, but I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't want to be the guy pulling the trigger on them!

 

[saskcop]

I am getting an easy 2500 fps from Ramshot Big Game and PPU 285's and they shoot into about an inch with my CZ550 Lux. I can easily break 2600 fps with 250 grain Accubonds using CFE223 with very good accuracy as well. Has to be one of the best bang-for-your-buck cartridges out there.