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Cbashooter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1570 Location: Eastern Wa. Joined: Mar 31^st, 2018	9.3x72R Small game load May 16^th, 2020 at 1:56pm	Print Post
	I'm playing around with my 9.3x72R stalking rifle a bit. I'm lucky in that it is a .358 Groove diameter and I mostly shoot plain base 200 grain .358 rifle bullets. the chamber is cut as such that you can chamber a .366 bullet. I had the Lee 95 grain 9mm Makarov bullet mold on my shelf and decided to try some of these with a reduced load of 6 grains of Bullseye. I have loaded a little over a hundred with this load and it is been very reliable. it holds up reasonably to 50 yards. at a hundred yards to group start opening up to over 3 though. in I'm quite happy with this little "bunny" load.


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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3865 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: 9.3x72R Small game load Reply #1 - May 16^th, 2020 at 2:02pm	Print Post
	When you run out of bunnies I will take care of the rifle for you;-)


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Cbashooter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1570 Location: Eastern Wa. Joined: Mar 31^st, 2018	Re: 9.3x72R Small game load Reply #2 - May 16^th, 2020 at 2:19pm	Print Post
	oneatatime wrote on May 16^th, 2020 at 2:02pm: When you run out of bunnies I will take care of the rifle for you;-) It's a cute little rifle .I had to repair some little cracks on the wood it is very thin in some areas. The rear sight is not original it is a replacement three leaf Express sight but whoever replaced it paid attention because it zero is very good with the loads I am shooting. It has a cartridge trap on the butt stock that is really neat as well. Light loads of 2400 and a 200g SAECO # 351 plain base will shoot a couple inches at a hundred yards a reasonable amount of the time.


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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3865 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: 9.3x72R Small game load Reply #3 - May 16^th, 2020 at 2:30pm	Print Post
	Interesting that it has only a .358 groove. I wonder if they sold some of those barrels to Husqvarna for their 33s, like Vall's 9.???x57R (360)?


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Cbashooter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1570 Location: Eastern Wa. Joined: Mar 31^st, 2018	Re: 9.3x72R Small game load Reply #4 - May 16^th, 2020 at 2:55pm	Print Post
	oneatatime wrote on May 16^th, 2020 at 2:30pm: Interesting that it has only a .358 groove. I wonder if they sold some of those barrels to Husqvarna for their 33s, like Vall's 9.???x57R (360)? barrel is marked 118/35 to denote plug guaged bore diameter.


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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3865 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: 9.3x72R Small game load Reply #5 - May 16^th, 2020 at 3:35pm	Print Post
	That's also interesting. 118.35 equates to a .340 bore before rifling. German Guns says that it is "somewhat common" on 9.3 rifles. 108.49, a .350 bore before rifling, is "very common" on 9.3 rifles.


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Cbashooter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1570 Location: Eastern Wa. Joined: Mar 31^st, 2018	Re: 9.3x72R Small game load Reply #6 - May 16^th, 2020 at 3:49pm	Print Post
	oneatatime wrote on May 16^th, 2020 at 3:35pm: That's also interesting. 118.35 equates to a .340 bore before rifling. German Guns says that it is "somewhat common" on 9.3 rifles. 108.49, a .350 bore before rifling, is "very common" on 9.3 rifles. I'm glad it's a 118/35 as I have many bullet molds to choose from in that diameter.the chamber is cut big though.
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Barrabruce Junior Member Offline Posts: 71 Location: Australia Joined: Mar 30^th, 2017	Re: 9.3x72R Small game load Reply #7 - Jun 8^th, 2020 at 6:19pm	Print Post
	I know it would be quite fun to pole axe a few wabbits with that. But....what does the farmer say when you roll up and ask to shoot a few bunnies and you show him a round?


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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3865 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: 9.3x72R Small game load Reply #8 - Jun 8^th, 2020 at 7:24pm	Print Post
	He just tells the farmer that he lives downwind of the Maralinga nuclear testing area and for some reason his local bunnies grow quite large;-)


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16077 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: 9.3x72R Small game load Reply #9 - Jun 9^th, 2020 at 11:30am	Print Post
	oneatatime wrote on May 16^th, 2020 at 2:30pm: Interesting that it has only a .358 groove. I wonder if they sold some of those barrels to Husqvarna for their 33s, like Vall's 9.???x57R (360)? Mine is a larger .375" bore on my Type 33 Husky Chauncey. Guessing 9.5mm version. Makes mine easy to cast .376" bullets, and shorten .38-55 brass to shoot mine.

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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3865 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: 9.3x72R Small game load Reply #10 - Jun 9^th, 2020 at 11:55am	Print Post
	Thanks, Vall, for the reminder. I knew yours was not a .367 9.3 so when this smaller 9.3 appeared I conveniently forgot that you were essentially shooting yours as a 38-55. Getting old! I don't think German Guns mentioned anything about a larger 9.3, maybe that was a Swedish thing.


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colo native Oldtimer Offline Posts: 760 Location: Barren Ridge, Va Joined: Dec 27^th, 2007	Re: 9.3x72R Small game load Reply #11 - Jun 9^th, 2020 at 9:08pm	Print Post
	oneatatime wrote on Jun 8^th, 2020 at 7:24pm: He just tells the farmer that he lives downwind of the Maralinga nuclear testing area and for some reason his local bunnies grow quite large;-) In Colo we call them large bunnies,-------wait for it------JACK RABBITS-------


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CharleHunter Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 363 Joined: Feb 8^th, 2019	Re: 9.3x72R Small game load Reply #12 - Jun 15^th, 2020 at 2:42am	Print Post
	Barrabruce wrote on Jun 8^th, 2020 at 6:19pm: I know it would be quite fun to pole axe a few wabbits with that. But....what does the farmer say when you roll up and ask to shoot a few bunnies and you show him a round? Could just say he is concerned about Drop Bear in the area, as we all know these are common across Oztralaia


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Dusty Rhodes Full Member Offline Posts: 175 Joined: Apr 28^th, 2016	Re: 9.3x72R Small game load Reply #13 - Jun 26^th, 2020 at 2:59am	Print Post
	Cbashooter wrote on May 16^th, 2020 at 1:56pm: I'm playing around with my 9.3x72R stalking rifle a bit. I'm lucky in that it is a .358 Groove diameter and I mostly shoot plain base 200 grain .358 rifle bullets. the chamber is cut as such that you can chamber a .366 bullet. I had the Lee 95 grain 9mm Makarov bullet mold on my shelf and decided to try some of these with a reduced load of 6 grains of Bullseye. I have loaded a little over a hundred with this load and it is been very reliable. it holds up reasonably to 50 yards. at a hundred yards to group start opening up to over 3 though. in I'm quite happy with this little "bunny" load. I'm very interested, what twist rate does it have. ?


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Cbashooter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1570 Location: Eastern Wa. Joined: Mar 31^st, 2018	Re: 9.3x72R Small game load Reply #14 - Jun 26^th, 2020 at 9:12pm	Print Post
	I never checked twist rate. I'll check on that,good question


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