Bought a ross barrel at a gun show. Now with pics

[desporterizer]

I bought a barrel at Orangeville off a pile with the intention of one day re-barreling a svt 40. I thought it was from a p14 but at 30.5" it looks like it belongs to a 1910 ross. Its kind of rough out side but the bore is very decent. Is there any value to this thing? A sportered ross sells for$200 so I cant imagine anybody would bother with a rebarrel. Can you imagine a svt with a ross tube?

Here are some pics of the damage

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/DESPORTERIZER/100_zps528
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[tiriaq]

Would certainly be of interest to someone with a cut barreled sported rifle who wanted to do a rebuild. If the bore is very decent, it would also be useful for replacing a barrel on a rifle with a poor bore.

 

[Tinman204]

My brother needs a Ross barrel that is full length!

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

I'd always read the Ross threads were crazy coarse and huge. Do you have a picture of the arse end of this poor orphaned tube?

 

[tiriaq]

30 1/2" would most likely be a Mk. III barrel, and would have conventional square threads, 1-12 iirc.
The really strange threads are on Mk. II, II*, II***, II****, II*****, but not II** rifles.

 

[flying pig]

I also would be very interested in a MkIII barrel!

 

[Nelson84]

I bought a barrel at Orangeville off a pile with the intention of one day re-barreling a svt 40. I thought it was from a p14 but at 30.5" it looks like it belongs to a 1910 ross. Its kind of rough out side but the bore is very decent. Is there any value to this thing? A sportered ross sells for$200 so I cant imagine anybody would bother with a rebarrel. Can you imagine a svt with a ross tube?

Where are you finding a ross for $200?

 

[desporterizer]

Where are you finding a ross for $200?

Last one I bought was $130 shipped.

 

[Winchester30-30]

i saw one for 350, i saw one for 150, my full wood 1905 was 900

 

[Blastattack]

Look anything like this:

 

[woodchopper]

30 1/2" would most likely be a Mk. III barrel, and would have conventional square threads, 1-12 iirc.
The really strange threads are on Mk. II, II*, II***, II****, II*****, but not II** rifles.

I could use a Mk II barrel,

I just wish I could find someone who could thread a new one, 3tpi left hand buttressed threads, crazy

 

[desporterizer]

Put up some pics of the carnage. What do you think now?

 

[flying pig]

I still want it. Lol.

 

[bushwhacker]

No big deal to clean up the OD if you have access to a lathe. You will have to re-blue it after. Obviouly the Klutz who removed it didn't care about saving the barrel when he used the pipe wrench. There are lots of cut barrel Ross rifle owners who would buy your barrel for a fair price.
Bill

 

[enefgee]

Virtually any Ross part that hasn't been hacked to shreds is worth something - in some cases more than a complete rifle.

 

[RRCo.]

The old pipe-wrench barrel removal trick - sweet.

Check the barrel is not bent, might be a reason it was removed other than the rust pitting.

If it's not bent it looks quite decent. The burrs from the wrenching should be peened down and touched up with cold blue. Don't polish it up or reblue it; you'll never duplicate the original blue and all that horror will be covered by the handguard anyway, if used to restore a military MkIII.

 

[desporterizer]

In the end I couldn't bear to hack it up if somebody actually wanted to put it on a ross, so its on its way to the new owner.

 

[enefgee]

You, Sir, are a gentleman.

 

[Magellann]

Its hard not to notice the pipe wrench removal technique. Must not have been much of a gunsmith.

 

[Tinman204]

In the end I couldn't bear to hack it up if somebody actually wanted to put it on a ross, so its on its way to the new owner.

Yep should be here in a few days. Just so everyone knows that barrel will be installed on my brothers MKIII Ross which has been converted into a 26" barrelled target rifle complete with a front globe sight.

I'll post pics as soon as we do the barrel swap.