Cool new reprint on the Ross Rifle

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Hope this hasn't been posted before. I just bought a little book which is a reprint from a 1911 magazine article on the Ross rifle and how it's made. I'm only halfway through right now, but it's quite neat. You can pick it up on abebooks.com for $16 shipped. Here's the blurb:

Bookseller Photo Rifles and Knives: Manufacturing the Ross Rifle and Press-Button Knife (Machinery's Industrial Secrets) (ISBN: 1559183446)
Machinery Magazine

Book Description: Lindsay Publications, 2006. Book Condition: Brand new paperback. 64 pages. Reprinted from Machinery Magazine articles, 1911. In 1911 the Canadian-made Ross rifle was quite a weapon, having a breach pressure resistance of 100,000 pounds that could fire a bullet at more than 3100 feet per second while rotating at 257,000 rpm --- more than any rifle at the time. It was adopted by the Canadian militia and used as well as for sporting purposes including international competition. Here in four highly illustrated articles you get the details on how the rifles were mass produced. Next, discover a short article showing how switch blade knives were mass produced in a factory in Walden, New York back before WWI.
 
There are also manuals for sale at Cornell Publications ( www. cornellpubs.com ) I found the reprints of part I,II, & III of the full manual for $25 plus shipping. Not much info out there except for the great stuff on milsurps.com for which Tiriaq and Badger are responsible. This is definitely a rifle to be respected if you value your head so I won't be touching the trigger until I get the manuals. We must all thank the aforementioned gentlemen for their part in providing some info and a most important warning on the bolt. Thanks Guys
 
:redface:
PerversPepere has posted an outstanding photo series detailing the safety situation respecting the bolt.
I just had a chap bring a sported Mk. III to me for examination. The bolt was separate, probably for storage purposes. The bolt was configured in the unsafe condition. I was able to install it in the rifle, no real problem getting it in; had it been fired, someone could have been hurt. This is the first time that I have encountered the accident waiting to happen situation. Incidentally, it is not necessary to disassemble the bolt to either get the bolthead in the incorrect position, or to put it back the way it belongs.
 
tiriaq said:
:redface:
PerversPepere has posted an outstanding photo series detailing the safety situation respecting the bolt.
I just had a chap bring a sported Mk. III to me for examination. The bolt was separate, probably for storage purposes. The bolt was configured in the unsafe condition. I was able to install it in the rifle, no real problem getting it in; had it been fired, someone could have been hurt. This is the first time that I have encountered the accident waiting to happen situation. Incidentally, it is not necessary to disassemble the bolt to either get the bolthead in the incorrect position, or to put it back the way it belongs.
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Was the bolt riveted? Supposedly that solves the problem 100%, or does it not?


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Yes, that is the WW2 period rivet that will prevent the bolt from being set up for a potential disaster. The rivet is placed in the bolt sleeve, and the bolt itself is slightly altered.
 
The "3100 fps" reference was definitely for the early .280 with 130 gr bullets-the heavier .280 bullets were down in the 2800fps (canadians: please do the metric conversions necessary to satisfy the dictates of Emperor Peter I).
This "bolt" thing regarding the 1910 actions will likely never go away....just consider it as another example of Mother Nature vacuuming the bottom of the gene pool...
 
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