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Hello All,
Thanks for the reply.

Here is a quote from a man on a different forum ...

"... A great caliber that suffered the ignorance of the shooting world in its day.. They produced the wrong bullet that continued to fail and blamed the caliber as we still do at times..

I hunted Buffalo and Plains game with it some years ago.. the good Hornerber brass was available and good Woodleigh 347, 350 and 400 gr. bullets were abundant.. The 347 and 350 got me 2300 plus a good bit, and the 400s were good for 2100 to 2200.. Worked on Buffalo and PG just fine and gave you an extra round in a good 98 Mauser with 5 down in mine and one up the tube...."

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Don't agree with the quote. The RWS and Kynoch bullets of the day were the same as the bullets used in the 404, only they were 347gr. Yes the RWS and Kynoch bullets were not as well constructed as Woodleigh and other bullets available today but in the 404 those early bullets were heavier and longer with greater sectional density, a recipe for good penetration even allowing for some distortion due to the thinner sidewalls of the early bullets. Fishtailing or distortion of the stubby 347gr bullet in the 10.75x68 was a recipe for poor performance on big game especially elephant.

Woodleigh did not get into production of their first bullets until 1984-86, soft point weldcore developed around 1988 and supply to RWS, Norma and Wolfgang Romey from 1993 onwards. This was way out of time of the great ivory hunting in Africa.

So in the days of the great ivory and other game hunting in Africa the ammunition available for the 10.75x68 just didn't cut the mustard for that real big game. The shooting world in its day was NOT ignorant they could only use what was available and like a few other cartridges the Germans just could not quite get there when compared with what the British were doing with cartridges for big and dangerous game.

However today with good bullets and reloading ability the 10.75x68 can be a good performer but will never catch up to the great performers; 404J, 416R and 425WR in that 40cal category.

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