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DUGABOY1
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Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?
23/01/10 01:58 PM

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9.3x74R any day of the week.

Plus 1.

I would select the 9.3X74R over the 30-06 especially in a double rifle, but I would select the 9.3x74R, or the 9.3X62 rimless over the 30-06 for any rifle I was going to use in Africa, simply:

#1 because the caliber is legal in a lot of places for the big 5, and the 30-06 is not legal for anything larger than a Leopard of the big five in MOST places in Africa, and for none of them in many. None of the 30s are legal, nor up to the task.

#2 is the fact that the 30-06 is a rimless cartridge, and IMO is not suitable for a double rifle that may be used for anything that bites back. The tiny palls that are needed for extraction in the double rifle chambered for a rimless, or belted rimless cartridge makes them a liability in a double rifle.

#3 The 9.3 cartridges are simply better hunting cartridges for large animals than the 30-06.

This is my opinion only here, but an opinion that is shared by the majority of PHs, and game people in Africa! That fact alone is good enough endorcememt for me!

The 30-06 is a fine cartridge, but my advice is stick to bolt actions, and for it or any rimless cartridge, and leave the double rifles to use the rimmed NE rounds!

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Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	hoser	06/01/10 03:30 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	Sikahunter	14/02/10 03:18 AM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	granhaven	12/02/10 08:44 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	BigFiveJack	12/02/10 10:21 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	9.3x57	12/02/10 11:13 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	NE450No2	13/02/10 08:48 AM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	BwanaBob	20/01/10 03:53 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	ozhunter	21/01/10 06:52 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	DUGABOY1	23/01/10 01:58 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	jaz	12/02/10 12:07 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	hoser	21/01/10 06:55 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	Grenadier	19/01/10 02:53 AM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	goshoot	08/01/10 03:54 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	hoser	08/01/10 03:58 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	doubleriflejack	08/01/10 06:21 AM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	NE450No2	06/01/10 06:04 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	kamilaroi	06/01/10 06:28 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	450_366	06/01/10 07:19 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	450_366	06/01/10 08:29 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	CptCurl	06/01/10 11:24 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	9.3x57	07/01/10 02:28 AM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	NitroX	07/01/10 02:44 AM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	crkennedy1	07/01/10 03:17 AM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	9.3x57	07/01/10 02:52 AM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	NitroX	07/01/10 03:05 AM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	hoser	07/01/10 03:24 AM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	JabaliHunter	07/01/10 04:08 AM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	hoser	07/01/10 04:09 AM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	4seventy	07/01/10 10:30 AM
Merkel 141 or Chapuis UGEX	hoser	07/01/10 10:33 AM
Re: Merkel 141 or Chapuis UGEX	DM	07/01/10 11:31 AM
Re: Merkel 141 or Chapuis UGEX	hoser	07/01/10 11:48 AM
Re: Merkel 141 or Chapuis UGEX	tinker	07/01/10 02:23 PM
Decision done!	hoser	14/02/10 03:27 AM
Re: Decision done!	NitroX	14/02/10 11:16 PM
Re: Decision done!	4seventy	14/02/10 07:07 PM
Re: Decision done!	CHAPUISARMES	14/02/10 01:32 PM
Re: Decision done!	sambarstalker	14/02/10 02:58 PM
Re: Merkel 141 or Chapuis UGEX	hoser	07/01/10 02:49 PM
Re: Merkel 141 or Chapuis UGEX	crkennedy1	07/01/10 05:12 PM
Re: Merkel 141 or Chapuis UGEX	hoser	07/01/10 05:19 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	hoser	06/01/10 06:46 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	sambarstalker	06/01/10 07:25 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	hoser	18/01/10 10:39 AM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	AkMike	18/01/10 11:18 AM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	Grenadier	18/01/10 02:46 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	srose	19/01/10 01:12 AM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	sambarstalker	18/01/10 11:31 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	NitroX	06/01/10 03:51 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	hoser	06/01/10 03:57 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	NitroX	06/01/10 04:08 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	hoser	06/01/10 04:15 PM
Re: Decision time: 30-06 or 9.3x74R?	tinker	06/01/10 04:38 PM

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