Moose hunting bullet 9.3 mm /.366 for 9.3x57

pacobillie said:
I am quite interested in hearing about your recipes. Personnally, i am up to 2154 fps (3 shot average) with a 285 gr. PRVI bullet, using 45.9 gr of H4895, CCI BR-2 primers and resized 8x57 winchester cases. I seat the bullet even with the rear crimp grove.
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Well, that velocity matches the original factory load of the 9.3X62, and that load killed everything in Africa for years.

Ball C2 is magic in the 9.3X57. I have had the 286 gr Norma bullets well beyond 2300 fps with good accuracy and case life using it and magnum primers.

BTW, it is also one of the best powders in the 303 British, 180s at over 2500 fps, equalling the old CIL Dominion factory load.

Ted
 
SuperCub said:
Funny how the 9.3x57 gets no respect while the 358Winchester is the darling little med bore.

Too bad there weren't more lighter bullets in the 250gr range for it.
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Few people have even heard of 9.3x57, and it's almost exclusively a handloading project which doesn't help popularity. OTOH there aren't so many 358 Win rifles around either. The medium bores are under-appreciated.
 
Hi, and thanks to the group. I'm looking at a nice Husqvarna in 9.3x57mm. the trouble is finding ammo in Canada for it. Does anyone have suggestions on where to get a couple of boxes? Or have a guru make me some from 8mm brass etc, with a 100-round minimum, I'm in EDMONTON. your sage advice is welcome.
 
^ I have been buying ammo / powder etc. since mid 1970's - smaller towns and cities in Central Saskatchewan - I do not recall ever seeing any brand of factory 9.3x57 ammo for sale, at any time. I do have "one" Husqvarna barrel chambered in 9.3x57 - I know there are other people with several. I spun a receiver onto that barrel - the receiver originally had a barrel that was chambered in 8x57. When I had that 9.3x57 barrel removed, I did a chamber cast with Cerrosafe - it has a VERY long throat - like 285 grain bullets are going to be completely out of the case neck before those bullets hit the rifling. I am told that is unusually long - it is based on my experience with one barrel. My intent was to make it into a "fun", aperture sighted "punkinchucker" thing - but I understand some folk hunt with that cartridge. For hunting, I have a 9.3x62, built by Husqvarna on a large ring Mauser 98 commercial action.

Go here - a CGN thread from some years ago - Post #28 has picture of that cerrosafe cast compared to a case and a cast lead bullet: https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/threads/9-3x57-sloppy-chamber.2166654/page-2

At the time, I found different numbers for head space dimensions from Norma versus CIP - so I never did get a set of gauges ground - as a result, I have no clue if this receiver and this chambered barrel are within SAAMI spec or not - I actually do not care. I have never found SAAMI spec factory ammo to buy - this one is only going to see ammo loaded by these dies - so I made the brass to fit to this installation - I do not know (and do not care) whether the ammo will fit to someone else's 9.3x57, or whether their ammo is safe to fire in this one.
 
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Why not? said:
I have some considerable experience with the 9.3X57, having gotten my first two when Bevan King barrelled up a couple of Turkish Mausers for me many, many, years ago.

The plain vanilla Speer 270 gr is an excellent game bullet in the 9.3X57, as well as the 285 gr soft point cup and cores.

My experience loading cast bullets in 9.3s is that they are very accurate. These are 285 gr plain base, cast from wheel weights, loaded in 9.3X62 rounds.

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The '57 case easily launches them at 2000 fps with good accuracy.

Ted
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Dam, those are some ###y boolits Ted.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Rob
 
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