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Yes indeed. I bought both sets of Hornady dies before I ever bought barrel blanks. So my projects are ready to go. I have a Steyr action all ready for the barrel of the 9.3X62 and I got a KAR action for the 9.3X57. I will weld on the bolt handle this coming week for scope use on the KAR. Both will have the safeties replaced with scope safeties.

I think I will use a military type rear sight on the full stock carbine but modify it for a windage adjustment. On the rifle I believe I will use a set of express sights, or if i can find one, I'll use the Mauser/Mannlicher set with the center standing blade and the 2 folders, one going toward the breach and the other folding toward the muzzle.

Anyone know where those old sights can be found?

Another option is to go to a Weaver side mount and use a Lyman or Williams peep sight as the back-up sight. Both rifles will have low power scoped on them, but I am a firm believer in iron sights too. My eyes don't allow me to shoot as well as I could when I was young, but having a set of irons has saved 2 hunts for me. One time I broke my scope by falling on a rock and one other time it was snowing so hard I could not keep the snow off the lenses long enough to aim. I removed the scope and continued to hunt and bout 20 minutes later I killed a VERY large buck at only about 20 yards. I could not see far, but neither could the buck.

Both stocks will be made from good walnut. Not super fancy, but nice and quite hard. I have the wood set aside now. I have not sawed it out yet, but I hope to get both of them made by the end of this year. I love the classic formed steel checkered butt plates with the widow's peak coming over the heel, but on 9.3s I may concede to recoil pads. Especially considering the fact on the carbine that I intend to make it very light. I expect it will come in at less then 8 pounds scoped and loaded.
One reason for my post asking about kills with the 9.3X57 is that the 220 to 240 grain range of bullets seem to all be European and I rad very good reports about them, but they can be quite expensive in the USA and also a bit hard to get. Bullets made in the USA of 250 and 286 grain are pretty common. I was hoping to get some feed back on the performance of the cartridge and see what would be best to "marry" each gun to.
I own a 9.3X74R and I have use the Speer 270 grain bullets on 12 head of game. Not impressed. SUPER accurate, but they are effectively a very large varmint bullet, blowing up on even very small deer and acting very erratically.

I like what I see written about the 236 grain Norma bullets and I was thinking they may be perfect for the 9.3X57, and I am also interested in the 220 grain Fox offering. But if I hear a lot of good things about kills made with the heavy 286 Grain Hornady, the 286 grain Nosler or the Barnes in the same weight I may go to them in the shorter shell. Hornady makes 250 grain bullets too and they also may be a perfect bullet for the 9.3X57.
In my 9.3X62 I just thought I'd go to the 286 gr Nosler Partition and call it good. I can't think of any case where such a bullet at about 2450 to 2500 FPS would not cover the mission. I like the Partitions very well because they hold up to close range hits, but they also expand down to lower velocities better than the X and "mono" bullet do. I may be over thinking all this. Maybe I need to just use the Nosler in both rifles and forget the rest.
What do you guys think?