Planning out a 10.75X68 build

[Wishfulthinker580]

Author is German reloader Norbert Klups.
"reloadung for hunter"
Dont belive its avaliable in English.

Thank you

 

[John Telford]

I’m sure with modern powders and bullets the 10.75x68 could be a nice oldie to revive just for the fun of it!

 

[Thomas Rutledge]

I’m in! I bought a Ken Owen build of a 10.75x68 Mauser. Not an old gun or a collector but a nice rifle none the less. Krieger 24” on a commercial action. I have 2 boxes of loaded Ammo, an additional 56 brass and 210 bullets from 300-400 gr. Mostly woody 350s. Dies also. I’m looking forward to working up loads to match the old school 404 Jeffery ballistics If I can safely get there. Looking for advice on an appropriate 400 gr solid. Pic to follow.

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

I’m in! I bought a Ken Owen build of a 10.75x68 Mauser. Not an old gun or a collector but a nice rifle none the less. Krieger 24” on a commercial action. I have 2 boxes of loaded Ammo, an additional 56 brass and 210 bullets from 300-400 gr. Mostly woody 350s. Dies also. I’m looking forward to working up loads to match the old school 404 Jeffery ballistics If I can safely get there. Looking for advice on an appropriate 400 gr solid. Pic to follow.

Congratulations! I was tempted by that one myself

 

[sestoppelman]

I’m in! I bought a Ken Owen build of a 10.75x68 Mauser. Not an old gun or a collector but a nice rifle none the less. Krieger 24” on a commercial action. I have 2 boxes of loaded Ammo, an additional 56 brass and 210 bullets from 300-400 gr. Mostly woody 350s. Dies also. I’m looking forward to working up loads to match the old school 404 Jeffery ballistics If I can safely get there. Looking for advice on an appropriate 400 gr solid. Pic to follow.

Please post some pics of this rifle.

 

[Thomas Rutledge]

Pics

 

[Deleted member 46122]

Pics

Congratulations. I’m glad you made it happen. Let’s stay in touch and work up some loads.

 

[sestoppelman]

Thats a dang good looking rifle in an interesting caliber.

 

[flatwater bill]

I love the lines on that rifle. Including the subtle Schnabel. Well done. Good choice. Thanks for pics FWB

 

[Thomas Rutledge]

Any opinions on best slings for Sporter Mauser’s? Thanks.

 

[Odinsraven]

Thanks for the welcome and I'm glad to see that there is still so much conversation and exchange of ideas on this page! So a little background on myself: I just graduated college and am currently sitting at what I like to consider my quarter-life crisis. I've been absolutely obsessed with the idea of hunting Africa (and read all I can about India and Asia as a whole...so that Gaur picture was REALLY appreciated and a treat to see) since I got into collecting hunting books at around 14 or 15. I love the idea of having guns in these "classic" African cartridges and high up on my list have been old East German metric calibers (namely the 10.75x68 and the 9.3x64 Brenneke). I don't know what stood out to me about about this caliber, but its been a toss-up between that and the .404 in my mind and it came down to the 10.75 strictly because people don't hunt with it anymore. Horrible reasoning I know but I blame the books for that one. Realistically speaking, this gun wouldn't necessarily be a buffalo gun until down the line and even then I'd prefer something bigger.

For the tl/dr: It's a caliber I've read about and wanted to shoot since I was a teenager, and I figured it would be a fun gun to start off a collection!

For the (seemingly large amount) of .404 advocates out there: any big differences on actions that would be required to hold it? I know it's a longer cartridge so at that point you'd be looking at something magnum length?

And as I type this I see that someone was kind enough to post the exact book that started me on this question! there's a permanent bookmark on page 96 of my copy of African Rifles and Cartridges since I've wanted this gun for so long.

Go for it Sir I recently purchased an original in Europe .........built of a 98 mauser action

 

[AZDAVE]

Nice lines, simple understated working mans rifle. Congratz!

 

[Francois R]

The problem is not the 10.75 x 68 Mauser the problem is it was about 90 years to early in design... the world only now catches up with it's design... the new 400gr bullets give a sectional density of 3.46 in comparison the .404 jeffery (10.72 mm bullet diameter), of which I own a custom London best rifle, gives you mmm yep you guessed it the same SD. But yes I know the 'smart people' here is going to scream 'velocity' ... mmm really ok lets look at that .... the case capacity of the 10.75 is circa 95 grs and the case capacity of the .375 H&H is ? yep you guessed it 95 grs of powder... and now the next person is going to say yes but what about 'chamber pressure' the answer here is learn to be become a hand loader not a reloader... the burnrate of the powders in fact of the 10.75 is faster than the .404 , eg. IMR 3031 and even the same as the .404 eg. N202 ... so you can load it with as slow burning powder as the .404 but you can even load it with equal faster powders like the .375 H&H and even a touch faster like the powders above....if you know how to work up loads using a micrometer then you'll be just fine... choose the right bullet and you'll kill everything on the planet, including everything in Africa. This was a rifle cartridge waaaay before its time, powders and bullet design had to catch up with it... O and you use 16% less powder than the .404... This is a great cartridge IF you a true hunter because all true hunters know their rifles and are hand loaders not reloaders... theres a difference... in this case about 11000 psi ...

 

[Nevada Mike]

If I was determined to build a 10.75X 68 I would look for a classic commercial Mauser action and start there. If I just wanted one to carry and shoot, I think I would look for an original Mauser in that caliber.

Good luck to you. Don’t let any of these crusty curmudgeons talk you out of you dream rifle!

 

[Zinz]

Love mine…

Ed Z