303Ross = 303Brit right?

Steppenwolf said:
Guys, my comercial Ross has arrived, but the breech is marked 303 Ross. I am almost positive but I should ask, 303Ross = 303Brit right?
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Ross Rifle
Place of origin Canada
In service 1905-1916
Designed 1903
Specifications
Weight 3.90 kg
Length 1320 mm
Barrel length 711 mm
Cartridge .303 British
Calibre .303 (7.7 x 56R mm)

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As Dantforth has pointed out, there were cartridges with Ross headstamps and packaging. One significantly different .303 Ross cartridge is the one intended for match shooting, which had a long streamlined bullet.
But your commercial Ross is designed to use standard .303 British ammunition. Which model is it?
 
I don't know. The receiver has the letter "P" inside a circle just below the 303 Ross stamp. I assume that it is one of the post-war sporters.

tiriaq said:
As Dantforth has pointed out, there were cartridges with Ross headstamps and packaging. One significantly different .303 Ross cartridge is the one intended for match shooting, which had a long streamlined bullet.
But your commercial Ross is designed to use standard .303 British ammunition. Which model is it?
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Steppenwolf said:
I don't know. The receiver has the letter "P" inside a circle just below the 303 Ross stamp. I assume that it is one of the post-war sporters.
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OK. 1905 or 1910 action? Type of rear sight? Checkering on the stock? There is a serial number stamped with rather small stamps on the left side of the breech of the barrel just above the stockline?
 
Up until the early 1960s, CIL ammo (Dominion) was marked on the boxes that it was suitable for rifles chambered for .303 Ross. There is no difference in the cartridges.

The Ross match ammunition had the famous Ross "pencil" bullet, as did the .280 Ross cartridge: wonderfully accurate, set new records all over the place. In actual fact, it looked a fair bit like a Hornady Spire point, just moreso.

I'm getting good results with Hornady Spire Point 150s in a couple of Rosses, but the best shooting I have come up with, to date, has been with the Sierra 180 flatbase at about 2300 ft/sec.

Your commercial 1905 is really a toy worth having and worth hanging onto. I do hope you have a LOT of fun with it.
 
I have become a Ross fan, 3 so far, and oddly enough my wife, who is anti firearms, shouldered it and said what a lovely rifle it was.:eek:



smellie said:
Up until the early 1960s, CIL ammo (Dominion) was marked on the boxes that it was suitable for rifles chambered for .303 Ross. There is no difference in the cartridges.

The Ross match ammunition had the famous Ross "pencil" bullet, as did the .280 Ross cartridge: wonderfully accurate, set new records all over the place. In actual fact, it looked a fair bit like a Hornady Spire point, just moreso.

I'm getting good results with Hornady Spire Point 150s in a couple of Rosses, but the best shooting I have come up with, to date, has been with the Sierra 180 flatbase at about 2300 ft/sec.

Your commercial 1905 is really a toy worth having and worth hanging onto. I do hope you have a LOT of fun with it.
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The Ross sporters are light, graceful rifles. Recoil is a bit more noticable than with a service rifle, though.
 
S Wolf- your 1905-R was the vanilla offering from Ross- In my experience, the very early ones were NOT serialled on the barrel at all- Now you need to put a 1905-M Sporter and a top of the line 1905-E (Same as a .280 Scotch Deerstalker) in the case with it, all three padlocked together to satisfy the JBST's, though. Nice find indeed! Barrel length?
 
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