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I've aquired some 9.3 bullets from my old gunsmith's inventory that I know he used for reloading the 9.3x62 Mauser rifle. These bullets have a 'R' inside a shield on the base of the boat tail. Copper tip - silver like body. There is 50 in a box, the box is plain cardboard - typed on the top of the box is >
50 Stck.
H.M. Cu Hsp 9,3-35-16,7g
Anybody have any idea what make these are and where they are from.
Thanks to all for the help.
My guess is Stck is German and R is for Rhino use.
Probably the RWS Company. You can search for the details.
Yes, they are definitely German, and very probably RWS.
50 Stck. H.M. Cu Hsp 9,3-35-16,7g
A full German text would be:
50 Stück H-Mantel Kupfer Hohlspitzgeschoss Kaliber 9,3 35?? 16,7 grains
In English:
50 items. type H-jacketed, copper, hollow point projectile, caliber 9.3 mm, weight 16,7 grains. Should still be available from RWS.
I just can't work out what the 35 indicates.
Patrick
Somewhat OT, but is the H-jacket similar to the Nosler Partition bullet?
I would suggest that the weight is measured in GRAMS not grains. A 16 grain bullet would be very light.
The “Stogers World Fair Edition Catalog” for 1939 lists both British and German (DWM) ballistics data. The British data is expressed in the familiar ‘foot-pound-second’ (fps) system while the German data is expressed in the metric ‘centimeter-gram-second' (cgs) system. Both Hatchers Notebook and Stogers list the conversion factor from grams to grains as 15.432. Since the bullet data lists the weight as 16.7 g (grams) there is no reason to use a conversion factor with any more precision than 15.4. Therefored the 9.3 mm bullet weight is probably close to:
16.7 g(Grams) x 15.4 = ~ 257 GRAINS.
Hope this helps.