1905 Ross Rifle
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1905 Ross Rifle
by rdj94a on Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:53 am
Picked one up awhile back with bayonet full military with bayonet both US marked? Any ideas pics will come shortly.
This is extremely rare to find one complete military. These are relative pics as my camera is on the fritz. This is the first one I have seen that has not been sporterized. Mine has original sling also.
This is extremely rare to find one complete military. These are relative pics as my camera is on the fritz. This is the first one I have seen that has not been sporterized. Mine has original sling also.
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Re: 1905 Ross Rifle
by captain-03 on Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:05 am
rdj94a wrote: Picked one up awhile back with bayonet full military with bayonet both US marked? Any ideas pics will come shortly.
Can't wait to see the pictures ....
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Re: 1905 Ross Rifle
by rdj94a on Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:04 pm
What info I can find out is that they were imported for boot camp training and home guard use as all of the springfields and enfields were destined to Europe and WWI. A very hard piece to find in filling a US military collection
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Re: 1905 Ross Rifle
by Scharfschütze on Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:58 pm
That's really cool...this is the rifle McBride used (at least at first) and wrote about in his book A Rifleman Went to War. I've never seen one.
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Re: 1905 Ross Rifle
by rdj94a on Fri Feb 10, 2012 1:50 pm
It is a straight pull design that didn't go over to well. Very rare to be all complete and US marked.
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Re: 1905 Ross Rifle
by oldironsights on Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:29 pm
rdj94a wrote:It is a straight pull design that didn't go over to well. Very rare to be all complete and US marked.
I just sold a sporterized 1905 Ross back in November.
Very smooth action.
Supposed to be very accurate also.
Just make sure the bolt is assembled properly. I checked mine for lockup by using a long, strong rod & tapped it with a rubber mallet.
I don't know it the Ross is rated for the Mk7 .303 round.
Sure is a beauty!
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Re: 1905 Ross Rifle
by lawdog74 on Wed May 02, 2012 12:02 pm
beautiful rifle,but i 2nd on the bolt assembly,i am no expert but have heard they will come apart if fired with an improperly assembled bolt
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Re: 1905 Ross Rifle
by PhillipM on Wed May 02, 2012 9:59 pm
I heard the bolt will kill you if it's assembled wrong.
Very nice find! I did a little sketchy research, apparently they were a target rifle pressed into military service and developed a jamming problem whereas they came back for training use. I gather some had the chambers reamed to improve feeding and some were cut with a .30/40 reamer after they were surplus because 303 was hard to find here. An original example is a rare thing!
Very nice find! I did a little sketchy research, apparently they were a target rifle pressed into military service and developed a jamming problem whereas they came back for training use. I gather some had the chambers reamed to improve feeding and some were cut with a .30/40 reamer after they were surplus because 303 was hard to find here. An original example is a rare thing!
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Re: 1905 Ross Rifle
by Doug Bowser on Thu May 03, 2012 12:03 am
If you fire it, many of the chambers have been reamed out to make extraction easier. The shoulder of the fired case will sometimes be blown forward and look more like a .30-06 case. Not good for reloading. I had one with the reamed chamber and my cases got used only once.
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