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9.3x57
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Stubby 9.3x62 & a Jungle Bear
#190214 - 19/09/11 10:35 AM

The stubby 16-inch carbine is a winner. Kills well and handles like perfection especially in a dense fir and cedar jungle thicket like wear we found the bear.

View from the opposite direction;

Inside the thicket, dogs a-screamin', great day;

A couple great bear rifles;

Worked around a while till we found as good a spot as we could to get a view of the critter;

The shot;

A good one for these parts. Northern {Lower 48, Canucks...

} Rockies blackies are ridge runners and the average boar goes 165 lb's in this state. This one went 240. It was.............a downhill drag!!!

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Rule303
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Re: Stubby 9.3x62 & a Jungle Bear [Re: 9.3x57]
#190242 - 19/09/11 08:37 PM

9.3 nice going and good shooting. Good pic showing the Marlin and your 9.3X62. Is the Marlin a 45-70?

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FATBOY404
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Re: Stubby 9.3x62 & a Jungle Bear [Re: Rule303]
#190243 - 19/09/11 08:59 PM

Good to see you have put the 9.3 "shorty" to use already Rod.

Would be ideal in that tight stuff.

I love the 9.3 and if I were to choose one rifle for everything it would be my choice.

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9.3x57
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Re: Stubby 9.3x62 & a Jungle Bear [Re: FATBOY404]
#190248 - 19/09/11 10:50 PM

Thanks fellows.

Yes, Rule, that Marlin was a .45-70. However, the favored rifle of the houndsmen here is the Marlin .444. They like those fast big light bullets that blow up and stay inside the animal. We worked up a load for the .45-70 that does the same thing, a Remington 300 grain JHP at 2100 fps and it is a bomb on bear.

I actually like the longer bullets of the 9.3, personally, as they give me the advantage of shooting thru branches or the bear's forearm for killing shots on treed bear.

I guess having both in the same mob works.

Here's a well-worn .444;

Blooded my most recent knife, too, a stout job I made from a sawbar;

With an older "Standhauer" for clearing brush and field butchering I also made from a sawbar;

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500Nitro
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Re: Stubby 9.3x62 & a Jungle Bear [Re: 9.3x57]
#190249 - 20/09/11 12:56 AM

Good stuff. Looks exciting.

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Re: Stubby 9.3x62 & a Jungle Bear [Re: 500Nitro]
#190252 - 20/09/11 01:22 AM

Way to go - nice bear. I've never shot them using dogs.

Usually spot and stalk spring or fall or in the grain (rye or oats) fields in the fall - again, spot and stock.

Bears that have been feeding heavily on berries or oats/rye are very good eating - if you like eating bears, that is.

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9.3x57
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Re: Stubby 9.3x62 & a Jungle Bear [Re: DarylS]
#190260 - 20/09/11 03:20 AM

This bear had a gullet full of...........bees!

He must have found himself a nice batch of honey and had himself a fill, makers and all!

As usual, the Prvi did its work to predictable perfection. Obviously good expansion and naturally shot thru the critter, too. For our stuff here that Prvi is a dandy.

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