How many Ross rifles are tucked away in the former Soviet Union?

Leave it to a Ukrainian TV show to air a detailed show about the Ross.

If only it included ### environmentalists making crafts for the local market, maybe the CBC would go for it.
 
wbaad said:
No way! Are those russian refurb ross rifles? Looks like they are treated to the same process as the nagant with all that red shellac on the stock. I'll take a ross and crate of surplus .303!
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Agreed. There's an electro-pencilled serial on the magazine and the bolt head looks blued. And is the one guy wiping all the cosmoline off of one? Dare to dream. Thanks for digging up the video.
 
Tyler said:
Leave it to a Ukrainian TV show to air a detailed show about the Ross.

If only it included ### environmentalists making crafts for the local market, maybe the CBC would go for it.
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LoL good luck getting that on the tv over there.



***And yes the Ross rifle co. Of QC Canada.*****
The russians actually competed with a Ross rifle in some international rifle shoots.....chambered in 7.62x54R however. This is according to the book: Ross and his rifles
 
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The rifle shown has the P-14 style front sight ears as supplied to the British order, but has the standard rear sight as supplied to Canada. Would this have been the configuration supplied to a direct Russian order? Sure would like to have a voice-over done to that video. Also would like to know about stocks in Russia. Come on Tradex, see if you can get a shipment. Maybe President Putin will send us some under his amnesty program.
 
The Russians have been disposing of obsolete military rifles they've been holding lately...thus the flood of SKS's, Mosins, Mosin snipers, SVT-40's, RC Mausers etc etc.

If there was a pile of Rosses being disposed of, I'd think we'd have seen them offered already...

My understanding is, the best of them were sent to Tula and Molot to be refurbed...we saw a ton of them come in in the wave of Mosin snipers.

That said, I'd be ecstactic to see a pile of surviving Rosses come in.

http://www.shotgunnews.com/2012/04/26/russia-to-destroy-4-million-guns/
 
bushwhacker said:
The rifle shown has the P-14 style front sight ears as supplied to the British order, but has the standard rear sight as supplied to Canada. Would this have been the configuration supplied to a direct Russian order? Sure would like to have a voice-over done to that video. Also would like to know about stocks in Russia. Come on Tradex, see if you can get a shipment. Maybe President Putin will send us some under his amnesty program.
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I'm tempted to think that at least some of the Ross rifles which Russia received had previously been in service with Canadian forces and may have been rearsenled prior to shipment.
 
surely Arsenal Rebuilds- MklllB foresight on a beater Canadian-issue Mklll. I lived/worked in the Ukraine from 1975 to 1978 and got into likely every Museum between Moskva and Kiev, and found nothing Ross or for that matter, Bell P-39s......still a decent video- I wonder how it got on youtube?
 
Most of the 1910 Ross rifles that Russia had in stock were sold to Spain during the Spanish Civil War. I have the number and the shipping dates, but just have to put my fingers on it. They also sold 9,000 Winchester 95 rifles in 7.62 Russian as well in a November 3, 1936 shipment. Now to find the paperwork on the Ross rifles... however the number 10,000 seems to ring a bell. None were left in Russia after the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force left as they had explicit orders to "bring back ALL the Ross rifles".
 
wheaty said:
Most of the 1910 Ross rifles that Russia had in stock were sold to Spain during the Spanish Civil War. I have the number and the shipping dates, but just have to put my fingers on it. They also sold 9,000 Winchester 95 rifles in 7.62 Russian as well in a November 3, 1936 shipment. Now to find the paperwork on the Ross rifles... however the number 10,000 seems to ring a bell. None were left in Russia after the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force left as they had explicit orders to "bring back ALL the Ross rifles".
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I've heard this before...do you mean the Russians told them to take them all with them when they left?

If so, I take it the Russians weren't fond of the bolt Gremlin...go figure.
 
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