A wonderful cartridge that is not given the attention it deserves (meaning in America). Many think the 35 Whelen is all bells and whistles, but in all honesty, it falls into the category of "reinventing the wheel". The Whelen is an excellent cartridge, but the 9.3x62 was introduced roughly 20 years earlier. The 9.3 is legal for Cape Buffalo, but the Whelen is not. Pondro Taylor liked the cartridge. Little Osa Johnson was deadly with it. It is a little behind the great 375 H&H in power, but the 9.3x62 (introduced in 1905) was the catalyst H&H needed to develop the 375 (introduced in 1912). Thanks for mentioning this great cartridge.
Wow that rifle ticks all the boxes for me 😮!! Really nice set up, beautiful wood, great looking half and half barrel, double set trigger in my favorite caliber! I have 2 9,3x62, a Ruger no1 S and an ils Husqvarna 648( I think) that was beautifully modified as a full stock carbine that shoot less than one inch at 100m with 286gn Aframe at 2450fps!! But it is nothing like yours!!
9,3x62 is for a Swede as I more or less the standard caliber for those of us that primarily hunts Elk (moose), wild boar and bear. The stopping power on boar and even bear is wildly appreciated . As a dog handler I also feel that it is the a caliber that most people can handle with out problems . It is seldomly that it is any problems to track down animals that have been shot at normally they are found dead. With my limited experience of calibers above 9,3x62 I find that it is more common to find animals wounded and alive because of bad shot placement. Please forgive my eventually not absolutely clear English.
Thank you. Good video. Does this rifle have the wider magazine and floor-plate, that I have seen on 1930s made Oberndorf Sporting Mausers chambered in 9.3x62?
@@oldcolonialtreasures114 Cheers. I have handled several of those 1930s 9.3x62 rifles, imported secondhand from Sweden to NZ, by Graeme Champion but did not have the spare cash to buy one. I did manage to buy a Brno ZG 47 in .30-06 from him, the first time I met him. That is a very nice rifle. No problem taking off my Warne-mounted scope, using the excellent open sights and remounting the scope without having to readjust the scope settings.
@@michaelguerin56 I had a 30-06 built on a mauser k-98 action by Musgrave in South Africa during the sanction years …how I dispise the day I parted with that rifle …
@@oldcolonialtreasures114 Not to mention the fact that the .30-06 was designed to feed reliably whereas the final version of the T65 cartridge was not and … the U.S. Army had to persuade John Olin to tell some big lies for them, when introducing it as the .308 Winchester. I understand that the U.S. Army misappropriated 1 million U.S dollars in the 1930s, to develop the M1 Garand rifle (there were apparently several identically numbered prototypes at the trials, concealed in a truck with full canvas cover in place, so that failed rifles could be swapped out for good ones). I suspect that if Winchester had not commercialised that cartridge, the earlier misappropriation may have become public knowledge. Nothing changes!
The 300 grain kicked bad, but the 2nd and 3rd shots seemed smoother
A wonderful cartridge that is not given the attention it deserves (meaning in America). Many think the 35 Whelen is all bells and whistles, but in all honesty, it falls into the category of "reinventing the wheel".
The Whelen is an excellent cartridge, but the 9.3x62 was introduced roughly 20 years earlier. The 9.3 is legal for Cape Buffalo, but the Whelen is not.
Pondro Taylor liked the cartridge. Little Osa Johnson was deadly with it. It is a little behind the great 375 H&H in power, but the 9.3x62 (introduced in 1905) was the catalyst H&H needed to develop the 375 (introduced in 1912).
Thanks for mentioning this great cartridge.
Wow that rifle ticks all the boxes for me 😮!! Really nice set up, beautiful wood, great looking half and half barrel, double set trigger in my favorite caliber! I have 2 9,3x62, a Ruger no1 S and an ils Husqvarna 648( I think) that was beautifully modified as a full stock carbine that shoot less than one inch at 100m with 286gn Aframe at 2450fps!! But it is nothing like yours!!
9,3x62 is for a Swede as I more or less the standard caliber for those of us that primarily hunts Elk (moose), wild boar and bear.
The stopping power on boar and even bear is wildly appreciated .
As a dog handler I also feel that it is the a caliber that most people can handle with out problems .
It is seldomly that it is any problems to track down animals that have been shot at normally they are found dead.
With my limited experience of calibers above 9,3x62 I find that it is more common to find animals wounded and alive because of bad shot placement.
Please forgive my eventually not absolutely clear English.
You are exactly correct
Good stuff well done.
Much appreciated
Excellent.
Thank you. Good video. Does this rifle have the wider magazine and floor-plate, that I have seen on 1930s made Oberndorf Sporting Mausers chambered in 9.3x62?
I pulled it from the safe and the floor plate is the same size as the Obendorf action on the 375 H&H, so I think it is standard..
@@oldcolonialtreasures114 Cheers. I have handled several of those 1930s 9.3x62 rifles, imported secondhand from Sweden to NZ, by Graeme Champion but did not have the spare cash to buy one. I did manage to buy a Brno ZG 47 in .30-06 from him, the first time I met him. That is a very nice rifle. No problem taking off my Warne-mounted scope, using the excellent open sights and remounting the scope without having to readjust the scope settings.
@@michaelguerin56 I had a 30-06 built on a mauser k-98 action by Musgrave in South Africa during the sanction years …how I dispise the day I parted with that rifle …
@@oldcolonialtreasures114 Not to mention the fact that the .30-06 was designed to feed reliably whereas the final version of the T65 cartridge was not and … the U.S. Army had to persuade John Olin to tell some big lies for them, when introducing it as the .308 Winchester. I understand that the U.S. Army misappropriated 1 million U.S dollars in the 1930s, to develop the M1 Garand rifle (there were apparently several identically numbered prototypes at the trials, concealed in a truck with full canvas cover in place, so that failed rifles could be swapped out for good ones). I suspect that if Winchester had not commercialised that cartridge, the earlier misappropriation may have become public knowledge. Nothing changes!
@@michaelguerin56 Isnt that the truth !!
Real pleasant to shoot it recoil velocity that hurts you