Good heavens!

LAYNE!!

As all here know, I am a hillbilly and don't possess enough Gun Pukka to fill a .255 Rook Rifle case but this statement took me over the top...

"The 9.3x74R was designed for doubles and single-shots such as this SSK Industries-barreled Thompson/Center Encore."

"SUCH AS"???

As if the designers ever had such a contraption as the SSK in mind when they lovingly chambered the First 9./3x74R.

On a more serious note, hanging around here I have learned that the 9.3x57, 9.3x62 and 9.3x74R may or may not be identical in ballistics. It strikes me that it seems no other Trio of cartridges has such blurred ballistics in real guns.

For example, the 9.3x57 is easily loaded to duplicate the orignal specs for the 9.3x62, and that level of performance is identical to what many 9.3x74R rifles actually spirt out.

Yes, the potential of each is obvious given the case capacities, but depending on exactly what rifle is used {for example, some Swedish HVA's are built using 96 actions which reduce OAL in 9.3x62}, they may be very similar indeed.

All of this meaning, the three 9.3's are really superb cartridges and deserve far better than what they've been given in the American gun world.

With SSK now chambering the Encore in x74R...I'm still waiting for Remington to produce the 742 in 9.3x57, and Browning the BAR in 9.3x62...