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9.3X72R Danish Krag
Dusty2
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Does any one have load information on the 9.3X72R?
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The only information that I can locate refers to this cartridge being loaded for blackpowder. It is and has been obsolete for many decades. Alternative descriptions of this cartridge are:
400/360 NE(2-3/4") Purdey
400/360 NE(2-3/4") Westley Richards
There is a note in Cartridges of the World for a load of 40 gr. of Cordite under a 300 grain bullet. This load supposedly yields 1950 FPS MV and 2537 Ft/Lbs. ME (referenced as a Purdey load).
Below is a translation from the Spanish website Munition.org:
.360 Express BlackPowder & Nitro/360 Express Long/360 Nitro Express/9.35x72 Hunting/ 9.3x72 R NIMROD / DWM 506 77D/DWM/635 GR./GR. 770
This it is a cartridge designed in 1899 for the hunting of the Central European fauna.
Most habitual it was his use in "Drillings" or guns of THREE tubes, two of them for cartridges of pellets (generally of caliber 16) and third of rifled bore in case some animal of more bearing crosses itself.
This type of arms was very fashionable at the beginning of century XX, but the change in the hunting regulations has caused that practically disappear of the map. (It is rare that in a same place and time it is possible to be shot to red deers and to hares simultaneously, for example)
Of this versatility of the weapon that typically shoots it comes sobrename to him NIMROD, God of the hunting.
At the end of the 2? world war, many of these rifles, magnificent quality, went to stop to the U.S.A. as "memories military" and partly thanks to it still take place cartridges for them.
9,3x72R never has been most popular of the cartridges of its style, enough more being sold 9.3x74R.
The 21 of September of 1909 the conference of Erfurt closed, by which all the ammunition manufacturers German commit themselves to unify the levels of cartuchs which they made. Other smaller details like the marcajes are also standardized, that happen to consist of the initial of the population where it makes the cartridge and the caliber but the Norm text. During years, the inscription Norm or Normalisiert certificaba the conformity to the norm. After the 1? world war, with all the cartridges constructed already following the norm, its sense lets be applied to east marcaje when losing.
http://www.municion.org/9_3x72r/9_3x72r.htm
This cartridge was covered in issue #319/19 of the International Ammunition Association. They have a forum for questions.
http://www.cartridgecollectors.org/
http://www.oldammo.com/
++ 6288 9.3 x 72R, flat nose 2 groove lead, brass primer, headstamp DWA 9.3 x 72 $10.00
Good Luck!
Thanks for info and the web sites. I was able to buy a box of ammunition made by Sellier and Beliot (sp) from Buffalo Arms in Idaho plus dies, brass and bullets.