These 10.75x68 B type Mauser sporters were not only used by Germans in South Africa. Instead, they were the standard large bore repeaters all over non-British Africa, from Senegal to Somalia and from Mali to Mosambique. The French, Belgian, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian colonists there had not read Taylor. So they happily shot their elephants, rhinos and buffalos with rifles in 10.75x68, rifles made by Mauser, Suhl, MAS and Belgian makers. To them inches, grains, feet per second and foot pounds were just as foreign as metric numbers were to Brits and Americans like Taylor or Elmer Keith.