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Hi Lancaster, that's the photo.

I hadn't noticed the A-5 earlier. I don't know why two men would be carrying rifles and the other a shotgun - maybe just a staged photo?

As to the location of the shot, those rocks are likely still there wherever it is.

As to the Mauser, I guess the question is whether it's a magnum action. Seems so to me but it's very hard to tell from photos (for me). If it's not a magnum action, it could be a 9.3x62 or 10.75x68. The cartridge belt appears in the photo but is of no help unfortunately.

Speed notes that there are records of 6 Mauser B's in 8x75 being delivered to 'customers' in southwest Africa in the 1930's, seeming to imply that those are the only records of original Mauser sporting rifles in that caliber. Not sure what he means by southwest Africa and why he didn't name the country. Modern day Angola, Namibia? Botswana or the western part of South Africa?

It seems there were no cheap rifles built in 8x75 - only original Mausers or other very high quality German arms.

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I would like to hear more about the 8x75, perhaps in a Mauser forums new thread? So it is based on the .404 Jeffery, or the German version the 10.75x73. How doe sit compare ballistically to the 8x68S? Which came first? etc.

Edited: Or is it based on the 9.3x74R as is the 8x75R? Which would be lesser ballistically than a case based on the .404.


Interesting the 8x68S can use the same bolt head as the .404 Jeffery. I have never looked at case dimensions to see how different or similar they are.

As for South West Africa and why a country was not named, Speed does! German South West Africa was the name of the German colony, then South African SW Africa before it became Namibia.