Zastava 9.3x62 is 4+1 or 5+1?

[Why not?]

Not a Zastava, but my Husqvarna M98 holds 5 down and will jump the rim. And it's a true Mauser 98, thumb cutout, flag safety, and all.

Same here, my Husqvarna 9.3X62 all held 5 in the mag, and fed like a fat boy at a buffet.

Ted

 

[Potashminer]

My Husqvarna branded rifle - so an FN commercial large ring mauser, I believe - will only hold 4 x 9.3x62 in the magazine - by a millimetre or two - so this one must need a shim or two to raise the action or lower the magazine? Something to fuss with, I guess. I never felt to be lacking anything by placing 4 in magazine, then closing the bolt. Is the same, then, as my Win Model 70 in 338 Win Mag - one in chamber and 3 in magazine. If I really want to, by depressing the large extractor behind the collar, I can "help" the thing get over the rim in a chambered cartridge - if I REALLY wanted 4 in the magazine. But I do not think it easily handles single round feeding - the extractor nose is not adequately bevelled - is more reliable to snap one into the empty magazine, then close the bolt - always works that way, with minimal fussing.

 

[vpsalin]

The couple i had a few years ago in 9.3mm were 4+1.

It's surprising that they would screw up the detailed spec sheet like that...

 

[Potashminer]

It's surprising that they would screw up the detailed spec sheet like that...

Is perhaps a thing where a few millimetres are important - your Post #1 said that you were finding catalogue reference to 30-06 - has been shown above there are millimeter difference per cartridge between 9.3x62 and 30-06 - although some have made usable cartridges from 30-06 for decades. Does not make them the same cartridge body size.

 

[Johnn Peterson]

Same here, my Husqvarna 9.3X62 all held 5 in the mag, and fed like a fat boy at a buffet.

Ted

Loved the comment Ted. I'll definately remember that one.

 

[kjohn]

I just took a look at my Zasatava M70, NAACO 90D, and a WW2 era dot BRNO. There doesn't look to be much difference at the face of the extractor. I'll just keep chambering from the magazine.

I remember trying to squeeze the back end of the extractor on my ugly old "sporter" Czech refurb, trying to chamber a round off the follower - no workee.

 

[Carlsen Highway]

My Husqvarna 1640 holds five in the mag, but you can't ride the bolt over the top of them to chamber a sixth round, so with a round chambered, you have four in the magazine.
So, still better than a .375...