I bailed off and did it..I sent my barrel and FN action to Dennis Olson for a 10.75 x68...Ordered 250 Horneber cases, dies and seater.

The deciding factor came when I ran a magazine full of 10.75s through the FN action and they fed slicker n snot and went straight into the center of the front action ring, even slicked right up into the bolt face!! but I told Dennis to double check feeding..He said it would be simple enough and shouldn't require much if any...

I will make a stock off my Holland and Holland pattern or my Obendorf Mauser pattern with side panals. I have been shoping for a real nice piece of quarter sawn Turkish..I have some nice blanks but thought maybe I would upgrade a bit on this one..

My loads are a 400 gr. bullet at 2150 FPS but Harold Wolf says 2300 is doable and judging from my primers, case head expansion that should be right, and he is not often wrong...A 350 gr. flat nose solid from Bridger bullets sizzles out at 2375 FPS and no pressure signs, so I have a couple of boxes of 340 gr. Northforks that should get near 2400 FPS and I have it on good advise that load will pass through a Bison from end to end, so this should make one heck of a Cape Buffalo and packing an 8.5 lb. rifle all over the hot Selous will certainly sooth my soul, and this worn out old body.....

Ray

Sounds good. But then again, you fall in and out of love faster than a cowboy in a titty bar....

Let me know when you decide to sell it.

Regards

Elmo

P.S. I like the H&H pattern better.

What happened to the Hoffman 10.75?

He sold it, while he was sick!

Now he needs another one!

Lb,404, took advantage of me while I was down with the flu, plyed with strong hot toddys, and begged me out of it.. Told me it was for his good wife, Susan. Being the perfect Southern gentleman that I am and being raised by a good Southern Baptist mother, I could not turn down such a noble cause towards a damsel in distress, and Lb, now owns that wonderful Hoffman, a rifle I surely loved...but it went for a good cause to a lady that can shoot but dislikes the recoil of larger rifles...I just hope she likes it as much as I did....but I have many big bores and don't need a 10.75x68, my 404 will do anything it will and more, so thats why I am building another 10.75....Don't ask!

Elmo,
I will and I will....

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Atkinson: Lb,404, took advantage of me while I was down with the flu...thats why I am building another 10.75

I like the 10.75 and old Mausers too, wish we could have seen pics, maybe lb404 will post?

Reckon if I got another dose to the flu or clap or whatever that Lb 404 would buy my Brno Mod.21 in 9.3x62??? Gag cough hello Lb, where are you?

Ray,

What mag box did you use to get it to work?

Ray had some very nice pictures of the Hoffman he sent me. Perhaps he can arrange to resend them to me to post. It does shoot very sweetly.

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500grains: What mag box did you use to get it to work?

I'm not Ray but I own 2 myself. One of the beauties of the 10.75 is it fits any standard length Mauser magazine w/o extensive alterations, maybe just a little on the feed ramp. With the venerable 30-06:

500 grs.,
The 10.75x68 seems to work fine with a std. Mauser box without alteration..Mine is an FN, Dennis will let me know the final answer to your question, but said it would take littel if any tweeking...

It seems to me its a natural for an ladies rifle or a light pack around that will cleanly kill a Cape Buffalo..A 400 gr. bullet at 2160 is time proven in the 450-400 and the original 400 Jefferys....

What I like is a 350 gr. Bridger flat nose solid at 2375 FPS, I know that worked great in my 404s, and I have a small supply of them left, I will hoard them for Buffalo only....

Well, well, well... let me see. I took the original pictures of the Hoffman for friend Paul and have still them on my ISP server:
Hoffman 10.75x68 Rt
Hoffman 10.75x68 RtCtr

Hoffman 10.75x68 Left

Integral bbl

Ray,

After looking at the pics Pfeifer so kindly posted, I have to ask: You mean you actually sold that great rifle????!!!!

SHAME SHAME SHAME!!!!



-Bob F.

Well Bob,
It wasn't mine to sell in the first place - it belonged to a good friend Sure wish I could have kept from leaving town though... it was sure a beauty!

Yeah, my gun whore self sold it, one of those deals, the buyer caught me just right..but its in good hands with someone who really appreciates it...