NavyShooter
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If so....I just bought your bayonet at the Waverley Gunshow this weekend....
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Does anyone out there own Ross Rifle S/N DA 317?
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NavyShooter
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So the rifle is probably with Parks Canada.
@ ENEFGEE:
Why would the rifles be with Parks Canada? It was my understanding that they had their own supply of ex-military Rosses which had nothing to do with HMS Canada.
HMS Canada was refurbished in England (complete shipyard overhaul) and sold cheap to Chile in 1922 as Almirante Latorre, her original name when built by Armstrongs'. When the ship was decommissioned and (sob!!!) scrapped, her "warlike stores", including about 225 Rosses, went into storage in the Chilean Navy's own yard. These rifles were sold to International Firearms of Montreal (and St. Alban, Vermont) and sold here in the middle 1970s. Rifles alone sold for $99.95, rifles with matching bayonets were $25 higher. I bought DA 426 but could not afford the bayonet. Still can't afford that bayonet, but I would work SOMETHING out if it came on the market.
BTW, DA 426 has an anomalous Canadian s/n on the wood, seemingly indicating that it is a Trials rifle. Everything else on it certainly screams "early". It is an excellent shooter, and that is what I was looking for. It shoots better with irons than some of my others do, WITH scopes.
Why would the rifles be with Parks Canada? It was my understanding that they had their own supply of ex-military Rosses which had nothing to do with HMS Canada.
HMS Canada was refurbished in England (complete shipyard overhaul) and sold cheap to Chile in 1922 as Almirante Latorre, her original name when built by Armstrongs'. When the ship was decommissioned and (sob!!!) scrapped, her "warlike stores", including about 225 Rosses, went into storage in the Chilean Navy's own yard. These rifles were sold to International Firearms of Montreal (and St. Alban, Vermont) and sold here in the middle 1970s. Rifles alone sold for $99.95, rifles with matching bayonets were $25 higher. I bought DA 426 but could not afford the bayonet. Still can't afford that bayonet, but I would work SOMETHING out if it came on the market.
BTW, DA 426 has an anomalous Canadian s/n on the wood, seemingly indicating that it is a Trials rifle. Everything else on it certainly screams "early". It is an excellent shooter, and that is what I was looking for. It shoots better with irons than some of my others do, WITH scopes.
It would be interesting to know just how you came up with this bit of "information." Could you give a Source or Reference that would confirm this?
Parks Canada had the Ross Rifles many years before these rifles were sold to the Public and when these rifles became available in the 1970s, there were a lot more suitable rifles available for Parks Canada to obtain.
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The Parks Canada reference may be incorrect, a PC staffer told me they had firearms that came of the Canada, along with a huge supply of other Rosses and former CF Lee No1's. He may be mistaking rifles from other ships.
It would sure be nice of some of those were to hit the market.
MANY 1910 Rosses served with the RN and the RMLI in the Great War, some even in the Second.
Unfortunately, the only ones we can be SURE saw Chilean service are the DA rifles. Only about 225 of them came to Canada, but the s/n s go up to almost 450. Chile had ordered 3 superdreadnoughts from Armstrongs' but only 2 hit the water in anything like their design configuration. Britain got rid of them after the War partly to please Chile (Britain threw in a lot of equipment and a full shipyard refit, then cut the price), some of that equipment being a full complement of Rosses which the contract had not included (Chile was using 7x57 1895 Mausers at that time). In a way, Britain was glad to get rid of the things: they were the only ships in the Navy with 14-inch guns.
MANY 1910 Rosses served with the RN and the RMLI in the Great War, some even in the Second.
Unfortunately, the only ones we can be SURE saw Chilean service are the DA rifles. Only about 225 of them came to Canada, but the s/n s go up to almost 450. Chile had ordered 3 superdreadnoughts from Armstrongs' but only 2 hit the water in anything like their design configuration. Britain got rid of them after the War partly to please Chile (Britain threw in a lot of equipment and a full shipyard refit, then cut the price), some of that equipment being a full complement of Rosses which the contract had not included (Chile was using 7x57 1895 Mausers at that time). In a way, Britain was glad to get rid of the things: they were the only ships in the Navy with 14-inch guns.
