Classic cartridge 9.3x62

To a lot of people this cartridge is probably not on their radar. It was, after all, specifically designed for Africa. More specifically for the German settlers there, most of whom could not afford the expensive rifles carried by well-heeled sporting types who hunted big game in the earlier part of the 20th Century. It’s actually been touted as being the definitive African cartridge.

German cartridge designer Otto Bock was a realist who knew the plight of the struggling farmers populating much of German East Africa in those days. He realised that there was a great need for a cartridge that would be able to anchor big game that many of these farmers shot for