Blasphemy!!!! Poor ross rifles

[Winchester30-30]

I was searching for 25-20 ammo and came upon this, wow....just wow

Note: .280 Ross rifles had a design flaw. If they weren't assembled

correctly, they would explode, killing the rifleman. Therefore,

we elect not to sell replacement cartridges in this caliber (.287)

and suggest that all weapons of this design type be disabled in the

interest of humanity.

Heres the link

http://slickaz.tripod.com/amorifle.htm

 

[flying pig]

Ha ha guess I better up my life insurance then!

Link doesn't work from my smart phone, does it work on a real computer?

Never mind, was the meat at the controls again...

 

[Claven2]

LOL... of course, the .303 rifles built o nthe same cation are just fine, right?

Seriously though, assembling a Ross to be unsafe is not dissimilar to firing a Lee Enfield without the bolt head installed. It takes a special kind of idiot...

 

[smellie]

Commission 88, Mannlicher 92/93, Berthier, Moisin-Nagant, Lebel, Lee-Enfield, all can be loaded and fired with the bolt-head missing completely.

I have NO idea how ANYONE survived World War One!

 

[MauserMike]

LOL not everyone was in the infantry smellie

 

[Claven2]

And clearly not everyone should be selling brass online either

 

[Kirk1701]

So, no one's going to correct this seller?

 

[Tinman204]

Commission 88, Mannlicher 92/93, Berthier, Moisin-Nagant, Lebel, Lee-Enfield, all can be loaded and fired with the bolt-head missing completely.

I have NO idea how ANYONE survived World War One!

I must have a death wish!! I shot a mosin, lee enfield, 88 commission and a Ross this weekend!! And to think I never checked if any of them had a bolt head installed correctly or at all!! I'm living on the dangerous side of life I tell ya!!

 

[mrbeil]

I must have a death wish!! I shot a mosin, lee enfield, 88 commission and a Ross this weekend!! And to think I never checked if any of them had a bolt head installed correctly or at all!! I'm living on the dangerous side of life I tell ya!!

Tinman, you'd better swing by elie this weekend and drop off those rifles so I can inspect them to make sure that they're safe to shoot. Wouldn't want ya to get hurt now, would I?

 

[John Sukey]

I have two Ross rifles and have fired both. The only thing I checked was to see that the bolt locked correctly. Oh by the way, the link doesn't work

 

[flying pig]

We should all hush hush before they start going up in price, and those of us who love them can't afford to own them ALL. Ha ha.

 

[zuke]

Site seem's to be gone, but no great loss

 

[Kirk1701]

http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/MediaPages/ArticleDetail.aspx?mediaid=732

This write-up is particularly uncomplimentary. But I don't really mind them steering Americans the wrong way. Plenty of Americans already know our secret.