Availability of military Ross rifles?

[rdelliott]

Been thinking that a Ross rifle would be an interesting thing to own from a historical perspective. How rare are they these days?

 

[Nabs]

I have seen the majority of them in sporter form with varying degrees of modifications done to them. My buddy owns one (Model 10 with a pinned bolt head) and we tested it out this past weekend and it certainly has an extremely smooth straight pull action. Convinced me to pick one up at any rate.

Be prepared to pay well over $1000 for one in military configuration. Sporters can be had for a lot less (going to say $300 ??).

 

[sunray]

"...How rare are they..." Fairly, in decent condition. They are out there though.

 

[nithburg]

Ive seen two in EE in the last couple months.

 

[H Wally]

You've got the option - sporterised, wood spliced and repaired, or original.

Sporterised = $150 to $200 or so

Repaired to original condition = $800 +

Original = $1300 ++++++

Factory = all over the map

 

[collector67]

I picked up a 1905 R Sporter (non military, made in 1907) for $80. From my understanding the factory sporters are even more rare than the military (M10) sporters...

 

[smellie]

Mother Russia, by one method or another, ended up with 2/3 of all the Mark III (Model 1910 military) rifles ever built. They maintained a large supply for many years, rebuilding them slowly into target rifles and Match rifles, a lot of which ended up with DOSAAF, others ofwhich wound up whupping our butts at various international shoots.

They got rifles as aid during the Great War, more during the Second War, they stole every rifle that went to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia and they are still sitting on the lot, apart from the few that Fritz took during the Second War (enough for Fritz to make them an official captured rifle).

There must be somebody who speaks the two Russian languages (Russki and Dollars) who might be able to persuade her to part with a few thousand......

There are people out there (not just, but including myself) who would do the most UNMENTIONABLE things for a crack at a genuine Latvian Ross, for one example.

 

[Ganderite]

I have a large biathalon poster. The rifle is clearly a Ross. The ammo is clearly 7.62x54

 

[smellie]

Is there any chance of posting that Biathlon poster in a nice high-res scan?

That sounds like something that a LOT of us would really like to see.

 

[LawrenceN]

I saw a couple of M10 Ross rifles in full military condition as well as some sporterized ones at the gun show in Pickering last Sunday. I know they're around, but the pricey.

 

[Ganderite]

Once upon a time, long, long ago, the Olympic biathalon was shot with centerfire rifles. The Canadian team was from the Army, shooting the #4. The Russians shot the Ross.

I will see what I can do wiht the poster.

 

[billdick]

A few of us shoot them for fun around here and they are in 303 but I have a neighbor that has had one in 7mm rem mag for probably fourty years that he uses all of the time for everything.