The Old School 9.3x62

WHEN I tell people I love hunting, I use that phrase to convey a myriad of complicated thoughts and emotions. Besides wanting to communicate how much I love time by myself outdoors, or putting wild free-range meat on my table, I feel that talking about an appreciation of a fine rifle is something that is overlooked by people who don’t participate in this lifestyle. To define the term ‘rifle’, we would say something about a firearm that can be brought to the shoulder, with rifling down the barrel. If we think about what makes a rifle however, that opens up a stack of interesting ideas; some of which I’ll touch on while talking about one of my favourite rifles – my 9.3x62.

My interest in the 9.3x62 cartridge came about early in my reading and participating in the social media side of hunting. I was never interested in it at first as I got caught up in the exciting reading about high velocities and flat trajectories, but when I considered where I’d use such a rifle, the idea of shooting at distances where that stuff mattered