Picture of the day
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Library and Archives Canada
Portrait of sniper Michel Ackabee, Fort William Band
Thunder Bay, Ontario, ca. 1918-1919
Photographer unknown
RG 10, vol. 6771, file 452-29
Source
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/aboriginal-heritage/020016-930-e.html
BTW, no defense of the Ross is needed.
The ZIS-22 halftracks were solid Soviet prime movers.
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The ZIS-41 brought a little more to the table... a 57mm AT gun.
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I dunno how many tanks were actually knocked out by a zis-41. But I suspect that 57mm high velocity gun had shortcoming in late war German armor like the mk4, panther and tiger variants.
Also, no way would I want to be that up high, out in the open with just a gun mantle shield taking shots at enemy armor. Armor is usually companies by infantry support and those zis vehicles look like a bazooka, grenade, Molotov, or maybe even AP rifle fire could take out the whole gun crew.
First photo I've seen of a chopped Ross in service that is not set up as a scoped sniper rifle.
This means that some of the "sporter" Ross rifles might actually be legitimate ex-service rifles that were cut down in service.
I wonder why they did it. Weight?
I remember seeing a pic of a British Officer in the field with his men carrying what appeared to be a cut down Ross sporter. I've gone through an hour looking for it but can't find it. Still, I did find a bunch of great Ross in service pics.
That would have made one mean motherf@cker of a self-propelled anti-tank gun!!
My reaction if I was to have seen that bad mofo...
Some of us have been telling folks that for years. They would need to have CEF markings, with full length barrels though.
Trenches were often only 100 or 200 yds. apart, accurate shooting was easy with open sights, especially with a Ross.
Fore-ends were cut back to make it easier to stick the barrel through holes in the sand bags and steel shooting plates.
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Scroll down to the 20 Battalion CEF picture, the soldier bottom left has a cut down Ross sniper rifle.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-sharpshooters-used-pick-enemy-targets.html
Also; https://greatwarcentre.com/2015/06/...ion-to-use-the-ross-rifle-during-world-war-i/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-sharpshooters-used-pick-enemy-targets.html
Also; https://greatwarcentre.com/2015/06/...ion-to-use-the-ross-rifle-during-world-war-i/
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Correct me if I am wrong, but is this soldier wearing a US style ammo pouches around his waist
No, P37 belt with non-infantry ammo pouches. If I recall correctly these pouches were issued to rifle carriers who did not require to carry a lot of ammo or mortar bombs. Andd he is wearing demin battle dress which was used for fatigue duties and training where you didn't want to mess up your battle dress.
