Any Ross experts here?

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I have a 1905 Ross in 303 that only fires some of the time. When it misfires it leaves a mark on the primer but just barely. The striker/cocking piece/whatever you want to call it that sticks out the back of the bolt when cocked doesn't travel all the way forward when it misfires. Any thoughts?
 
Tiriaq is one of our better Ross experts...send him a PM if you don't receive a reply soon .
I'm leaning towards a worn down firing pin....but then I'm no expert .
 
A good cleaning using a product like brake kleen to get the crude and solidified grease out of the bolt body. Or take it to a gunsmith who has ross experience to see what is wrong.
 
10x said:
A good cleaning using a product like brake kleen to get the crude and solidified grease out of the bolt body. Or take it to a gunsmith who has ross experience to see what is wrong.
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+2 give it a strip and clean, eliminate the dirt possibility (most likely) and if it keeps up it might be a weak firing pin spring or a burr??:eek:. Enough said, try cleaning it first.

Pete
 
bdft said:
I intend to take it apart and clean the crud out of it. There are no gunsmiths with any Ross experience in this neck of the woods. Just experts that tell you Ross's are too dangerous to shoot because they blow up in your face. :rolleyes:
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You can get copies of the Ross Rifle handbook, two parts, from Cornell Publications!
 
bdft said:
I intend to take it apart and clean the crud out of it. There are no gunsmiths with any Ross experience in this neck of the woods. Just experts that tell you Ross's are too dangerous to shoot because they blow up in your face. :rolleyes:
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Any individual that tells you a Ross will blow up is NOT an expert.
Ross bolts have been known to fail to lock up properly if disassembled and not assembled properly. The Ross action is an extremely strong action and the 280 Ross if it were in production today would be very similar to the 7mm rem mag.
 
bdft said:
I intend to take it apart and clean the crud out of it. There are no gunsmiths with any Ross experience in this neck of the woods. Just experts that tell you Ross's are too dangerous to shoot because they blow up in your face. :rolleyes:
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Straight pull Model 10 Ross rifles have been rebarrelled to 300 Win, 300 Wby and 338 Win that I know of. Earl Leech, a gunsmith in Southern Ontario, was doing that forty years ago.

Ted
 
bdft reports that this is a 1905 rifle - quite a different critter than the 1910 series.
Trying to think of what could be causing this problem.
The bolt assembly has been disassembled, cleaned and has been properly reassembled? The cocking piece retaining pin isn't dragging? When the bolt is rotated to locked position, does the firing pin protrude properly? The firing pin spring is snappy? The locking area inside the receiver ring is clean? The bolt is rotating to fully locked position when the breech is closed? If it doesn't rotate all the way, the firing pin blow will be softened. The trigger mechanism is in good order, the cocking piece isn't dragging on the sear?
 
The 1905 is as far as I know, safe from the blow back issue that haunted the 1910. It was mostly hype anyway. I have purposely put the bolt together wrong on my 1910, and it is so obvious that something is wrong, it's hard to imagine anyone firing it so assembled. (Heat of battle accepted)
It made the action quite stiff, made it difficult to put the bolt in the receiver, and the bolt head flopped about loosely, instead of snapping back against the bolt body.
It was quite obvious that the bolt had not seated the cartridge in the chamber.
As I said earlier, the 1905 is different, and I have no experience with the 1905. I will wait on Tiriaq.
 
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