10.75x68 Mauser Rifle

[NTO]

I have for sale this 10.75x68. I have attached some pictures and include a link that has more with some info when Buckstick had it.

WTD - LOAD DATA FOR 10.75X68 - NEW ACQUISITION

WTD - LOAD DATA FOR 10.75X68 - NEW ACQUISITION Hello all, I have just received a new acquisition to my Big Bore rifle assortment. I found a Type B Oberndorf Mauser in 10.75x68 caliber. I would like some help from forum members with loading data. There doesn't seem to much around for this...

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Asking $1500 shipped it also comes with 30 loaded rounds and 10 brass all proper headstamped.

 

[JPmbogo]

Bore condition? And present LOP, realizing that a pad will be necessary?

 

[NTO]

Bore is good with very strong riflings.
14” LOP gonna assume when it was built had a steel buttplate.

 

[Witold Krzyżanowski]

Nice rifle.

 

[WebleyGreene455]

Nice looking rifle. I'd happily take it off your hands if I was able to, but alas I can't.

 

[Lance Hopper]

I will take it. Pm me the particulars

 

[Francois R]

Hi is this rifle still available ? please dm me thx

 

[Altitude sickness]

Now that rifle has patina. Beautiful

 

[Lance Hopper]

Not for sale anymore. It's mine now. I often sit with it and a fine Bourbon and try to conjure from it the stories it so blatantly refuses to tell. So, alas, I am forced to make them up to satisfy my daydreams of what must have been.

 

[grand veneur]

Very good, but you should shot game with it. Something like that contributes to the history of such rifles.

By the way, I own a rifle caliber 10,75x68 made in the seventies, not an original rifle, but I shot game with it, including three buffalos.

 

[19_A_CPT]

Very good, but you should shot game with it. Something like that contributes to the history of such rifles.

By the way, I own a rifle caliber 10,75x68 made in the seventies, not an original rifle, but I shot game with it, including three buffalos.

Id want to shoot a squirrel or rabbit with it. Scientific Experiment if you must.

@lance, if you ever decide to part with it, I might be interested.

 

[grand veneur]

Id want to shoot a squirrel or rabbit with it. Scientific Experiment if you must.

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That's possible, the cartridge 10,75x68 is not a very powerful cartridge and was initially designed for hunting heavy game species and not above all big game, a hunting for which it remains a very marginal cartridge.

 

[HWL]

That's possible, the cartridge 10,75x68 is not a very powerful cartridge and was initially designed for hunting heavy game species and not above all big game, a hunting for which it remains a very marginal cartridge.

Should be good enough for leopard & lion...

HWL

 

[grand veneur]

For leopard and lion could be, but unfortunately no one has reported it on a forum so far.

 

[HWL]

For leopard and lion could be, but unfortunately no one has reported it on a forum so far.

Hunters with a 10,75x68 are rarely seen in Africa.
.458s and .375s are abundant like flies....

HWL

 

[grand veneur]

Hunters with a 10,75x68 are rarely seen in Africa.
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HWL

That's right.

I took my rifle caliber 10,75x68 with me a few times, coincidentally when hunting in the former German colonies of southern Africa. No PH had seen before a client with a rifle of this caliber.

My local guide in Burkina Faso also own an old rifle caliber 10,75x68, but it was in a bad condition without open sights. He also had no more ammunition for it.

 

[Huvius]

That's possible, the cartridge 10,75x68 is not a very powerful cartridge and was initially designed for hunting heavy game species and not above all big game, a hunting for which it remains a very marginal cartridge.

I wouldn't say the 10.75 is "not a very powerful cartridge"!
The projectile is what let the 10.75 down, not it's ballistic performance. With a better bullet, it's legacy would have been entirely different.

 

[19_A_CPT]

Hunters with a 10,75x68 are rarely seen in Africa.
.458s and .375s are abundant like flies....

HWL

I'd about trade my 375 for that Beaut. Reload for it and take it back to the mother land.

 

[85lc]

Huvius is correct. The bullet was the problem of many of the older cartridges that didn't do well. With modern bullets, cartridges like this and the 9.5x56MS would have been much higher rated by people like Taylor.
The 280 Ross failures on lions were really the failure of frangible bullets breaking up early.

 

[HWL]

The bullet was the problem of many of the older cartridges that didn't do well. With modern bullets, cartridges like this and the 9.5x56MS would have been much higher rated by people like Taylor.
The 280 Ross failures on lions were really the failure of frangible bullets breaking up early.

In the hands of thousands and thousands of hunters this cartridges worked flawless for its intended purposes..... but not in the hands of Taylor.....

HWL