Bought a 1905 Ross today

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Hal O'Peridol

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Found it down at Cabela's near Marysville in WA State. Looks to be one of the target models, has the longer barrel, flat crown, drilled and tapped for a sight bridge on the rear of the reciever. Bore is excellent(!!!)

Downside is the handguards are missing, but the bands are still there. Fortunately I have another target model to get a handguard pattern from. I'll try to get somepics tomorrow.
 
Sincere congratulations, Hal!

I have photos of the sight bridge and sight, if that is any help.

I can imagine the excitement at scoring one of THESE!

You might even need a Pill to relax!!!
 
Paid 465 plus tax. I was looking las night and I think I can cobble together a good setup for handguards out of a nO4 Enfield handguard. The other rifle I have has the rear receiver bridge and a long range rear sight.......that STARTED at 500 yards. I replaced that with a sight from a P-14 for local range shooting. This rifle still has the rear barrel mounted sight, so no other mods needed to go shooting.
 
oK, here are some quickie pics of the rifle. I believe that it has been reblued, but should still be a great shooter.

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I'm not a great fan of Ross Rifles but also have nothing against them.

They are beautifully made and as strong and smooth as any action ever made.

I was shocked when I first saw the huge threads they used for barrel tenons. Incredible is the best description. Massive and extremely strong.

They are beautiful to look at and lovely to handle. I wish I could gain an affinity for them.

I can certainly understand why so many love them.

Last summer I had the opportunity to shoot a milspec 303 Brit in full dress and it shot wonderfully well. The ergonomic design of the stock made recoil neglegible. Then, the fellow also brought out his commercial in 270 Ross.

Lovely rifle, fine balance, machined and finished to a fine lusterous hue.

Your rifle is obviously milspec but look at the craftsmanship it shows.

Great find and at a very good price.

The Russians built their Olympic target and running bore rifles on Ross Receivers.
 
Is there a serial number on the left side of the breech of the barrel, just above the stock line, stamped with rather small numerals?
 
It's quite amazing what can be done with these riifls. One owner of a poorly abused specimen took advantage of the incredibly coarse thread and turned the rifle into a takedown. Truly amazing stuff. I have a Ross on The way that someone has outfitted with an amazing custom stock. It like many of its brethren, should turn out to be a fantastic shootin rifle.
 
Hal O'Peridol said:
Paid 465 plus tax. I was looking las night and I think I can cobble together a good setup for handguards out of a nO4 Enfield handguard. The other rifle I have has the rear receiver bridge and a long range rear sight.......that STARTED at 500 yards. I replaced that with a sight from a P-14 for local range shooting. This rifle still has the rear barrel mounted sight, so no other mods needed to go shooting.
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Hal, you stole that rifle! Very very nice score!
 
Nice find!! I'm also a Ross rifle owner and if I had to pick just one of my guns to keep it would be my Ross hands down!! Please give us a range report when you get around to shooting it!
 
Gorgeous specimen!

I have one which was, it one time, long ago, like yours. Alas! It met up with several crates of hot old Cordite ammo, then fell into the hands of Bubba the Execrable for far too long.

This one is the way they are supposed to be.

Bit of Italian Walnut and she'll be fine.
 
As smellie mentionned, Italian walnut was used to stock these. The rear sight is sort of the default sight - same as on a MLE. All the British service sights from the late 19th century into the early 20th used the same pivot size. If you cannot find a rear bridge and sight, swap in a Sutherland, etc. sight, and get the fine adjustments.
If you dissassemble it, you will likely find traces of soot, and scaper marks, from when the rifle was carefully stocked up.
Mine is a bit later than yours. It never had a sight on the barrel, and was originally fitted with a BSA Martin rear target sight on a bridge.
 
I don't see a SN# on the barrel.......might have been polished off, my other Ross target has the number. Front sight is on back asswards, probably put on wrong when reassembled.

I also have a M1905 military Ross that needs to have the stock lengthened, and a very nice M10 Commercial Ross in .280.
 
Here are some more pics, the rifle with the hand guard I already
owned.

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Does not look like it here, but both barrels are the same length:

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Proof marks on my already owned m1907

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No such marks on new rifle:

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The new rifle, while it has no serial number or "Canadian proof" does have this diamond shaped stamp on top of the chamber area on the barrel with the letters 'HFN' inside.

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