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szihn
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Preformance with the PPU 9.3MM bullet?
      #330074 - 13/07/19 10:37 AM

Hello all.

I am putting this request on several forums. I am looking for details about the PPU brand 9.3MM 285 grain bullets.
Specifically, how they hold together and what amount of weight they are retaining from kills in the field. Any cartridge 9.3MM gun, at any game, at any range at any angles, I would like to hear detailed reports by anyone who has killed game with this specific bullet.

Thanks

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470evans
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Re: Preformance with the PPU 9.3MM bullet? [Re: szihn]
      #330086 - 14/07/19 12:01 AM

Can't comment on weight retention but we use them often on pigs and deer out 9.3x62s at our place in Texas.

Haven't lost one yet and most have been pass throughs.

Edited by 470evans (14/07/19 12:03 AM)

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Re: Preformance with the PPU 9.3MM bullet? [Re: 470evans]
      #330088 - 14/07/19 04:32 AM

One shot stop and complete pass through on a 300+lb. boar this spring. Ruger No. 1 9.3x63 at about 40 yards.

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Re: Preformance with the PPU 9.3MM bullet? [Re: Hoot]
      #330089 - 14/07/19 06:26 AM

I must assume you both got some expansion, but you didn't tell me what the exits looked like.
I have no complaints with not knowing retained weight if the reason is the bullets always exit.

That's a good thing in my book.

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Re: Preformance with the PPU 9.3MM bullet? [Re: szihn]
      #330096 - 14/07/19 10:56 AM

My son uses "Highland" PPU 286 grain factory ammunition in his Sako 85 in 9.3x62. I've been with him when he's shot pigs and on one occasion a scrub bull. I didn't recall any rounds exiting.but we didn't bother doing autopsies to recover pills.

Anyway, he got home last night after a week or so out west chasing pigs so I just asked him how the Highland went on the dozen or so pigs that he shot with that rifle.

He said the largest boar was probably just under 60Kg and the smallest pig between 20 & 30 Kg. Most pigs were shot on the shoulder with the exception of a large boar which was texas heart shot. Shots ranged from 15 to 20 meters out to about 100 meters or just over. NO rounds exited. All game shot died within a shot distance or on the spot.

I've shot mainly Norma 286 Alaskan rounds through my 9.3x62's on stuff like, bulls, red deer, pigs, dingoes. and brown bear. Very few of the rounds exited...of course they did on the dingoes.

Both my son and I agree that for shooting stuff like pigs and small deer the Highland seem to perform very, very well. If I were shooting pigs with the 9.3 I'd very happily run Highland ammo.

We're both off chasing sambar in a few days. He'll be using the 9.3 and Highland. If he's successful we'll try and recover a pill.

Rod

Edited by Rod4861 (14/07/19 10:59 AM)

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Hoot
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Re: Preformance with the PPU 9.3MM bullet? [Re: szihn]
      #330097 - 14/07/19 11:54 AM

Entrance was, as expected. about 9.3mm in diameter. The boar was quartering towards me and I took him just in front of the leading shoulder. The exit wound was maybe 3/4-1" or so. I didn't measure but I didn't note much expansion but we were close...

I went with that bullet because it was cheap and it shot VERY well. I figured 285gr at speed should do the job.

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Re: Preformance with the PPU 9.3MM bullet? [Re: Hoot]
      #330114 - 15/07/19 02:24 AM

Steve, Rod, (9.3x57) did a bit of a bullet study on penetration
with the Privi bullets, 286gr. He found them on the soft side compared to other bullets tested in his media, including the 300gr. sized down .375's Interbonds as well as the 235gr..375's Speers and .375 225gr. Hornady SP's I sent him for testing in his 9.3x57.
He was driving the 235's at 2,450fps and the 225's at 2,550fps. They matched the penetration of his .375H&H using 300gr. Swift A-frames on his steer head, 1" plywood and jugs filled with water media.
We were both very impressed by the performance of these sized-down .375's which seemed to get tougher when sized down.
On a frontal shot on the steer head, the 286gr. Privi stopped in the first vertebrae after penetrating the skull's front, brain and bone casing, then stopped on the board on the back side of the first vertebrae. The 225gr. and 235gr. each penned 2, 1/2" plywood boards, a water jug and stopped in the second jug (as well as the 300gr. Swift A-frame). The
Privi stopped on the first board at the back of the skull.

How that computes for you, I don't quite know, but if I wanted both penetration and expansion from my 9.3x62, the sized down .375" 235gr. and 225gr. were very impressive.

The sized down 300gr. Interbond's were like bubble-gum - huge expansion but hung together, kinda like the old 405gr. RP's .45/70 bullets driven 1,800fps or slower.




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