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The 9.3×62mm (also known as 9.3×62mm Mauser) is a rimless, bottlenecked rifle cartridge designed in 1905 by German gunmaker Otto Bock. It is suitable for hunting medium to large game animals in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.
In 1905 when Otto Bock released the 9.3x62 chambered in the inexpensive Mauser 98 rifle, a practical economical sporting cartridge was made available to colonists. As the 9.3x62 gained popularity, ammunition became available throughout the African continent.
Feb 9, 2018 · It was the brainchild of the Berlin gunsmith Otto Bock, and by all accounts was developed in or around 1905, as an all-around cartridge for the German farmers in what is modern-day Tanzania. Mr. Bock’s formula worked.
Jan 4, 2011 · Sporting rifles of 9.3x62mm caliber — built at Peter Paul Mauser's factory in Oberndorf, Germany — became for African farmers what the Winchester 94 in .30-30 became to the American cattle rancher.
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Aug 31, 2021 · A German named Otto Bock created the 9.3x62 rimless cartridge out of whole cloth, although its dimensions look suspiciously like the 7x57mm Mauser of 1892. And that means it’s mirroring our 30-06 for rim, head, body diameter —even the 17-degree, 30-minute shoulder angle.
The hunting and shooting worlds changed forever in 1905 with the introduction of the 9.3x62mm Mauser cartridge. Designed by Otto Bock, the cartridge incorporated two major advances in firearm technology in the early 20th Century: the introduction smokeless powder and the Mauser 98 rifle.
May 4, 2018 · While it took a while for the .35 Whelen to gain its SAAMI-approved status— Remington legitimized the cartridge in 1988—it has been with us since the early 1920s, when Col. Whelen and James V. Howe (of Griffin & Howe fame) designed the American answer to the .318 Westley Richards and .350 Rigby, making a perfectly sound cartridge for all but the...
