A darn nice whacked down Ross

[H4831]

Bought this a while back on the EE. With it's great bore, I think it is a fine rifle, one I wouldn't feel a bit handicapped hunting with.
Smellie, it has some type of number just above the wood, where you state the sport models were numbered, but this one also has the broad arrow. Can you make out what some of the little figures stamped in it mean?
I think they did a good job of cutting it down.

 

[flying pig]

That is a nice little MkIII. 22" barrel? Looks even shorter than mine with the 24".

I think those are just inspectors marks? Not sure what they mean though. The serial should be farther up towards the muzzle, just after that last step you can see in your pic on a commercial sporter. Would those C^ marks mean it was still here after WWI?

 

[buffdog]

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That is the first one I have seen with a "C/broad arrow" marking. I wonder if this one was one of the "Arctic Ranger" rifles that was replaced by the No. 4 Lee-Enfields? The trouble with those ones is that they were a bit unpopular, and the bolts had a habit of coming loose on them and dropping out, just about the time the owners were crossing a lake in a canoe. It seems that the owners were then re-issued with No. 4 Lee-Enfields, and those rifles did not have the loose bolt problem and the bolts were not "lost."

The commercial sporters had a 1/8 inch high serial number on the left side of the barrel, just above the wood line, about an inch or so forward of the receiver ring.

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[H4831]

You have a good eye, the barrel is 22 3/4 inch.

 

[Klunk]

That's a perrty Ross-I have owned several similar to that and wish I had kept em all

 

[Blastattack]

looks to be in decent condition. How is the bore?

 

[green]

The crown 9 is a military inspector mark.
The commercial arms were stamped on the lhs of the barrel ahead of the receiver with the serial #.

 

[RRCo.]

Enlarged chamber, ("E"),but not many escaped that. Someone had a swivel screwed to the side of the forend once?