.22 Ross Repeater?

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Anyone ever see a Ross .22 repeater, straight-pull bolt-action rifle?

I was at the NRA Museum (Bisley UK) today, and they have one. Kinda neat! (no pics, camera was at the range instead of with me!)

NS
 
Ross .22 repeater?

Never seen or read of one. Nothing in the "Ross Rifle Story", but with Sir Charles, you never know. Rossguy is the member who will know.
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Geoff in Victoria
 
I would imagine that it is a custom creation. I've never heard of one either. The British versions have different sights than the Canadian versions, there are sniper versions (of which Joe Salter had or has one), but no repeaters that I've heard of.
 
There was a .22 rifle made by Ross. Ny father had one. I forget the specifics just now. It had full length wood and a simple tubular receiver. There was a magazine sticking out the bottom. The other distinctive thing was the back sight was on the rear of the tube, standing up vertically.
 
maple_leaf_eh said:
There was a .22 rifle made by Ross. Ny father had one. I forget the specifics just now. It had full length wood and a simple tubular receiver. There was a magazine sticking out the bottom. The other distinctive thing was the back sight was on the rear of the tube, standing up vertically.
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Never heard tell of a repeater, but there is certainly the single shot straight pull .22 Ross Cadet.
Pics would be nice...
 
It is a straightpull .22, single shot. (I stand corrected by another shooter standing beside me....BMW)

So, anyhow, I guess it is probably a Ross Cadet rifle. Came over here to the UK from Vancouver actually, so it's a pretty small world!

Also saw an original trench Enfield from WWI, and got to cycle the action using the levers. Wow.

NS
 
AFAIK, Ross never made a repeating 1912 Cadet...there was an article in a Gun Digest Annual from years past about the Cadet, mentioning how simple it would have been to add a magazine....
The ones that went to England surely went as standard Cadets. The rifle really is too small to be really useful except for poachers- I have several with Pommie Proofs, and all have non-standard sights, surely added in England, not in Queerbec. I have no reason to believe that the alterations done to the 'scope-mount one offered by fellow canadian Uncle Joe was done by the Ross Factory, same as the one with the W&S 'scope shown in the Ross Bible.
 
I could have sworn I read about an official Canadian scope-mounted cadet somewhere. And it was bizarre because it said that the scope mount was secured to the wood, and not the receiver.
 
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