The 9,3x74R...have any of you used it to take DG..?

[shootist~]

You need enough impact velocity for these modern expansion bullets, which is not always guaranteed with this marginal cartridges.

Respectfully, I do not follow. Why would a modern soft that falls to expand be less effective than a solid that also does not expand? Assuming same impact velocity.

 

[Hunter-Habib]

Respectfully, I do not follow. Why would a modern soft that falls to expand be less effective than a solid that also does not expand? Assuming same impact velocity.

I believe he is referring to the modern monometal expanding bullets like Barnes TSX which often need relatively high velocities in order to expand properly.

 

[pilar]

Buffalo I think a 9,3x74r with a SP out to 100 meters would be bueno
and probably fine with a monolithic ( ttsx) according to load data
but I would hunt buffalo with a 35whelen if legally allowed

 

[AZDAVE]

@grand veneur In my 9.3x74 double the 300gr aframes shoot to perfect regulation at 2380fps. I shot a eland at 75 meters with it. The hit was 1/3 way up the shoulder, broke the shoulder, destroyed the heart and holes in both lungs, went through the scapula on the off side and was perfectly mushroomed just like a swift commercial add. I would hunt buffalo out to 100 with my double with no reservations. That being said I believe that my 500/416 is a better option in the doubles in my safe.

 

[TOBY458]

I shot three very large water Buffalo in Australia with a 375 H&H and 300gr TSX running 2450fps at the muzzle. All bullets penetrated and expanded adequately on all three bulls. This is very close to 9.3x74r ballistics, and I never felt undergunned at all.

 

[Green Chile]

I shot three very large water Buffalo in Australia with a 375 H&H and 300gr TSX running 2450fps at the muzzle. All bullets penetrated and expanded adequately on all three bulls. This is very close to 9.3x74r ballistics, and I never felt undergunned at all.

That is exactly the load I sighted in earlier this week for my 375. Taking it to Africa in 3 weeks for buffalo and croc. Good to hear how effective it was on the bigger bodied Oz buffalo.

 

[WAB]

I have seen a 9.3x62 make short work of a buffalo in the Zambezi valley. A good friend who is a PH uses a 9.3x74 double for his personal hunting (not backup), and has taken a number of elephant with it. I would not hesitate on buffalo. Elephant…

 

[Pieter van Jaarsveld]

Great caliber for Buffalo and plains game and so is the 9.3x62. Had a client a few years back that used used a Ruger no1 in 9.3x74. He was the most competent shot with that little Ruger.

He killed everything we hunted with one shot because he knew where to put the bullets…
I’d take a client like that, armed with a 9.3x74 or 9.3x62 on a Buffalo or Elephant hunt any day of the week.

 

[Aussie_Hunter]

I just took 3 monster bulls in Australia with my Rigby in 9.3X62 using 320 grain Woodleighs. It's an absolutely fantastic cartridge, I only bought my first 9.3X62 rifle less than a year ago but I can honestly say it is now my favourite cartridge of all time, I wish I had picked one up earlier in life. Will definitely be considering a double in the rimmed 9.3X74R at some point in time.

 

[Sideshow]

So the question is which countrys let you use it on Buff and other DG?

 

[juan pablo pozzi]

I saw Don Heath used his 9,3 x 62 for everything,Mynhard Herholdt used the 9,3 x74r for buffalo but they are pros .I would recommend my clients a 375hyh minimun.But in good hands the 9,3 can do the job

 

[grand veneur]

The cartridge 9,3x74R is not the ultimate cartridge for DG hunting. As I have already written, you can use it for this purpose if nothing else is available. Why some so-called famous DG hunters in Africa have preferred such cartridges to big bores is a mystery to me. Perhaps some of them were afraid of recoil, not impossible. In any case, there are much better cartridges for DG hunting than the cartridges 9,3x74R or 9,3x62.

 

[spike.t]

The cartridge 9,3x74R is not the ultimate cartridge for DG hunting. As I have already written, you can use it for this purpose if nothing else is available. Why some so-called famous DG hunters in Africa have preferred such cartridges to big bores is a mystery to me. Perhaps some of them were afraid of recoil, not impossible. In any case, there are much better cartridges for DG hunting than the cartridges 9,3x74R or 9,3x62.

Of course there are nobody is saying otherwise....but those 2 calibres work on big animals....I would prefer someone who can put a 286grn 9.3 bullet in the correct place than someone using a bigger calibre who is not confident enough with it , or simply can't be accurate with it.....and as for your talk of famous big game hunters too scared of bigger calibres..I will say bullshit to you....I don't think George rushby was scared of big calibres....just used the 9.3x74r double he had well....he sold it as had to take his leave and needed money for the fare back to UK....when he returned he was not happy he didn't have his pissy little 9.3 double to use.....

 

[spike.t]

And I know a bit how he felt when I had to sell my Jeffery 9,3x74R double.....

 

[Green Chile]

Don Heath wasn’t scared of anything…he is THE man that trained most of Zim’s PHs.