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Nakihunter,

you are on the money, the 9.3 x 62 is a powerful cartridge, the 270 gn Speer on a high shoulder shot flattens buffalo without a step taken, i would sumise the same with a large deer such as Sambar, pigs hardly move, I have also shot about 3 red deer with the same effect. Truly a great cartridge. i've test fired a 9.3 x 57 but not used it on animals. 9.3 x 57 was good on pigs tho!

cheers
chris

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The 9.3x62 is a great cartridge. Taylor IIRC beats up the 9.5 as having too little penetration. Must be as we have been discussing, a bullet issue as opposed to something inherent in the velocity, since the old x62 round was loaded to less velocity than the book said the 9.5 with its close bullet weight produced. Unless the 2250 fps cited for the 9.5 was VERY wrong or too fast for the bullets.

Naki and Chris' experience seems to indicate...?...that the 9.5 might be strolling along at much {?} less velocity than the 2250 Taylor cites, or the recoil would be similar to that of the 9.3x62. Except...is anybody now shooting a 9.3x62 at the old 2175 fps speed? Probably not? I don't own a 9.3x62, but those who do tell me it kicks a lot more than the 9.3x57. My 285 grain loads in my x57 are very close to Taylor's magic x62 number...as mine are going 2100 and recoil is mild.

What's more "in the defense of the 9.5x56"...

As a favor to my neighbor who couldn't get it to come home, I shot a 1,000 pound, wolf-crazed steer with a Hornady .375 270 grain Spire Point bullet resized to 9.3 in my x57. Shot struck the animal from below as it was about 70 yards higher than me and running. Bullet angled more or less behind the shoulder and thru and exited thru the offside ahead of the shoulder and higher. I don't know how to measure the penetration except to say it was "a lot". The critter dropped at the shot and rolled down the mountain toward me, bellowing all the way, flattening brush and small trees like a steam roller run amuck. At about 30 yards or so it got hung up on a serviceberry tree and I shot it again, this shot angling from below and behind thru the neck, also exiting.

The only gripe the owner had was that the shot thru the shoulder wrecked a lot of meat, something the round with Prvi's does not do on deer, elk and bear I've shot.

All that to say with the right bullets, that 9.5x56 didn't HAVE to be a loser, and it makes me wonder about Taylor's actual experience with it, unless the bullets really were bad, or the velocity far, far off from that stated.

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