Adventures in Rossland

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My cousin in Alberta inherited the guns from the farm in Manitoba my father grew up on. I remember my Dad telling me about shooting at a coyote with a Ross rifle they had on the farm, hitting just below it, spraying it with dirt and having it take off like Wiley P Coyote in the cartoons. I saw the gun in 1986, and remember my cousin showing me the stock was marked SSK for South Saskatchewan Regiment. I think the stock was cut down, not sure about the barrel. My cousin told me on the phone a few years ago, he was going to box up and send me the Ross and a double barrel shotgun from the farm. He never got around to it and was killed in an automobile accident a couple of years ago. I corresponded with his sons, and told them if they ever wanted to sell the Ross I wanted first chance. I didn't hear anything back, so gave up and just a few weeks ago bought a Ross with a cut (but nice and shiny) barrel and stock from a Gun Nut. This past week I got an e-mail from one of the boys saying he got the Ross out of storage and is boxing it up and sending it to me. :):) I AM SO PUMPED! I am just like a kid waiting for Christmas morning. I know it is too much to hope for that the barrel is full length, but a guy can dream, can't he? Just like my dad always said, if you lose a pair of vise-grips, the surest way to find them is to buy another pair.
 
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Well even if it was full length, getting the metal parts to restore it is near impossible... Assuming you could restore the stock somehow.

I was thinking of trying to use P14 or P17 stock hardware, it being similar to the Ross hardware, to restore one (liberally).... I wonder if it would look ok. That's why I was thinking of doing it with a Ross that had a cut down barrel... little collector value.

Were you thinking of trying to "bring it back" as it were?
 
Ross

I barrel is cut I'd leave as-is. If the stock was cut forward of barrel band as some were then it could be rebuilt. I've seen handguards made from common No.4 Enfield rear guards.
Geoff in Victoria
 
A sported Mk. III with a shortened barrel and the stock cut in front of the band could be "restored" as a shortened version of a service rifle. There are those who argue that the Ross should have been made with a 24 or 25 inch barrel in the first place. Splice a forend extension onto the stock under the band, and in the likely absence of a Ross nosecap, adapt one from something else.
 
tiriaq said:
A sported Mk. III with a shortened barrel and the stock cut in front of the band could be "restored" as a shortened version of a service rifle. There are those who argue that the Ross should have been made with a 24 or 25 inch barrel in the first place. Splice a forend extension onto the stock under the band, and in the likely absence of a Ross nosecap, adapt one from something else.
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My thoughts exactly. Of course I like projects.
 
bushwhacker said:
My cousin in Alberta inherited the guns from the farm in Manitoba my father grew up on. I remember my Dad telling me about shooting at a coyote with a Ross rifle they had on the farm, hitting just below it, spraying it with dirt and having it take off like Wiley P Coyote in the cartoons. I saw the gun in 1986, and remember my cousin showing me the stock was marked SSK for South Saskatchewan Regiment. I think the stock was cut down, not sure about the barrel. My cousin told me on the phone a few years ago, he was going to box up and send me the Ross and a double barrel shotgun from the farm. He never got around to it and was killed in an automobile accident a couple of years ago. I corresponded with his sons, and told them if they ever wanted to sell the Ross I wanted first chance. I didn't hear anything back, so gave up and just a few weeks ago bought a Ross with a cut (but nice and shiny) barrel and stock from a Gun Nut. This past week I got an e-mail from one of the boys saying he got the Ross out of storage and is boxing it up and sending it to me. :):) I AM SO PUMPED! I am just like a kid waiting for Christmas morning. I know it is too much to hope for that the barrel is full length, but a guy can dream, can't he? Just like my dad always said, if you lose a pair of vise-grips, the surest way to find them is to buy another pair.
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So Bushwacker...did you get that Ross and was it cut down?
 
My cousin e-mailed that his brother was coming home and he got the Ross out of storage. I e-mailed back asking if he would need my PAL# etc and mentioned that if he wanted to sell any of the other guns I could post them here for him. Since then he has not answered my e-mails or phone messages I left. I don't kinow if I said something to tick him off, or his brother didn't want to sell the gun.
BIll
 
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