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#248550 10/19/11 08:58 AM
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Does anyone know where I can buy ammo in this caliber? I have a Husquavarna combination gun(9.3X16 ga) and need ammo.Thanks


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steinauge #248596 10/19/11 03:56 PM
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You can't.

The 9.3x57r360 (full name of what you have) is also called the British .360 2-1/4 express, also known as the .360 miniature express.

This website will make you dies: http://www.ch4d.com/

This site will sell you brass: http://www.buffaloarms.com/

Bullets can be purchased but you need to do a chamber cast and pass several slugs through the gun and get your measurements correct. Your gun's bore could be anything from .36" to .375+.

Incidentally, this will be a major financial and time based undertaking for you if it is a drilling or double rifle. If your "combination gun" is a Cape Gun, you really don't care about regulation and therefore it may be easier just to shove different loads in and see how they pattern.

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Cases can be formed from 9.3x72R, or can be bought from Bertram and Horneber. Husquarna appears to have used real 9.3 mm barrels, so .364 - .366 bullets should be fine. But they need to be lead, or with a thin jacket only, not the modern heavy-jacketed bullets for 9.3x62 oder 74R. I have copies of a Scandinavian article with plenty of information including loading data which I can send you by email, and some own experience.
Please take note that case dimensions for the 9.3x57R/360 and for the .360 / 2 1/4 are a bit different, and dies for the English case may not work.

Fuhrmann

steinauge #248760 10/20/11 09:55 PM
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Hello Steinaug.
All of the above is good info.
Fuhrmann helped me out when I first picked up one and that info is pretty much on.
The only change that I made was that I wasn't sure of the chamber as it was a very old rifle, so I took 8x57r360 dies and expanded the neck to .366 after sizing.
This gave me a case that was sure to fit and I fireformed them.
Where does this leave you? Well, if you have a fired case, you can send it to CH4D and they can ream a set of dies if your chamber is off of standard.
Other option is that since this is a relatively low pressure round you can simply handload fired cases unsized, which is what I ended up doing - especially if you don't plan on firing it much.
I shoot a BP load with a paper patched .357 slug. very easy to put together and reasonably accurate (around 1" at 50).

Good shooting

Tom


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