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I bought this rifle I guess about 4 years ago and have enjoyed it immensely since. It is not mucked with and hasn't been drilled and tapped and is chambered in the 9.3 X 57 Mauser cartridge that really never caught on anywhere to much extent but Scandinavia. There it was and still is considered fine moose medicine. Simpsons Ltd., in Galesburg, Illinois imported a pile of them and there is a small following now in the US. Mine is on a Mod. 96 Mauser and they also sold a Mod. 146 on the Mod. 98 Mauser.
I made up some more new brass for it from both Winchester and Remington, 30-06 brass. That doesn't take much more than resizing in a 9.3 X 57 die and trimming UNLESS, a fella wants to shoot cast bullets. Then you will have to thin the necks. I do that on my lathe and come up with very good brass.
When I first received the rifle I worked up two loads, one with the Prvi Partizan, 9.3 jacketed bullet at 286 gr. and another with an Accurate Molds bullet at 264 grs. The jacketed load is ok and certainly runs about 500 fps faster than the cast load but the cast load leaves the jacketed bullet in the dust when it comes to accuracy. Sometimes that happens. The cast load worked up is 15 grs. of Unique under an open cell foam filler and the cast, gas checked, lubed bullet. Bullet is basically unsized as I run it through a .372 die to seat the check and lube the bullet.
I'd been wanting to play with it but with all the rain we've had and "life" getting in the way I never had the chance. Well, today I had the chance and I was treated once more to why I like this rifle so much. 3 shots, benched, at 50 yards, open sights, (U-notch and brass bead), fired leisurely. Average velocity, 1544 fps. Extreme spread, 11.5 fps., Average Deviation, 4.5 fps and Standard Deviation, 5.5 fps. Energy at 10 ft. calculates to 1397 fpe, if you put any stock in energy numbers. Frankly, I do not believe the way energy is calculated even makes for a good cartridge to cartridge comparison.
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I made up some more new brass for it from both Winchester and Remington, 30-06 brass. That doesn't take much more than resizing in a 9.3 X 57 die and trimming UNLESS, a fella wants to shoot cast bullets. Then you will have to thin the necks. I do that on my lathe and come up with very good brass.
When I first received the rifle I worked up two loads, one with the Prvi Partizan, 9.3 jacketed bullet at 286 gr. and another with an Accurate Molds bullet at 264 grs. The jacketed load is ok and certainly runs about 500 fps faster than the cast load but the cast load leaves the jacketed bullet in the dust when it comes to accuracy. Sometimes that happens. The cast load worked up is 15 grs. of Unique under an open cell foam filler and the cast, gas checked, lubed bullet. Bullet is basically unsized as I run it through a .372 die to seat the check and lube the bullet.
I'd been wanting to play with it but with all the rain we've had and "life" getting in the way I never had the chance. Well, today I had the chance and I was treated once more to why I like this rifle so much. 3 shots, benched, at 50 yards, open sights, (U-notch and brass bead), fired leisurely. Average velocity, 1544 fps. Extreme spread, 11.5 fps., Average Deviation, 4.5 fps and Standard Deviation, 5.5 fps. Energy at 10 ft. calculates to 1397 fpe, if you put any stock in energy numbers. Frankly, I do not believe the way energy is calculated even makes for a good cartridge to cartridge comparison.
