I'll say, I was expecting perhaps something really buggered/hobbled together but this rifle appears to me to have had some serious work put into it. Wish I could find stuff like that in old lockers, I find lots of dust bunnies and spiders instead.
Found a rifle today - UPDATE post #60
- Thread starter ArmedGinger
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There are many options:
1- 50/50 vinegar and water (will neutralize the rust and turn it black)
2- Soak it in CLP and wipe, repeat.
3- Rub with 000 steel wool and oil, then re-blue.
longbranch*
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- Victoria,BC.
Any old hunting photo's in the albums maybe with the rifle you can show us? I'm guessing by the design of the stock it was put together in the 1950's.
gunrunner100
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I'd say you did pretty good.
Like has been pointed out, there was some good work put into that conversion.
Like has been pointed out, there was some good work put into that conversion.
nowarningshot
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That would please the old guy.
Excellent idea. What is the LOP?
This is not correct.
Factory sporters had serial numbers. The military MKIII rifles did not, with exception of a batch made for Home Guard use that had serial numbers prefixed with HG.
What I believe you have found is a re-barrelled and re-stocked Ross M10, which would have been in 280 Ross caliber when it left the factory.
The bottom metal (floor plate) and magazine follower are certainly from a Ross M10.
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So I spent an hour tearing the rifle down (haven't torn down the bolt yet) and it was nasty. Leaves, twigs, pine needles, black sticky tar like substance, etc.
I'm pretty sure that is not an M10 follower but who ever did that work was very good indeed. Check the top of the bolt body, about half way up for a rivet. This was a modification that was done to help make sure you do not re-assemble the bolt improperly. That is a great find and a lovely example of the craft at it's finest for the time. That "Old guy" must have been some tall to require that butt extension to be added as well as the recoil pad. Please let us know how the old girl shoots.
As a note, .300 Win Mag came out in 1963, so the work was obviously done sometime after that.
Scott
As a note, .300 Win Mag came out in 1963, so the work was obviously done sometime after that.
Scott
Ross used the M10 action on the Military MKIII rifles, the ones our Canadian troops carried into the trenches of WWI, as well as on a number of factory sporters. What is confusing is that ALL of the receivers, military and factory sporters, are stamped ROSS RIFLE CO. CANADA M10 PATENTED. Many folks refer to the Military MKIII rifle as a M10. These were the ones that often had the bolts pinned and many were also stamped E on the receiver to indicate an enlarged chamber to accomodate $hitty British 303 ammo.
The M10 action was also used for the 280 Ross factory sporters (aka M10). Ross also used this action for other models of factory sporters called the R10 and E10 chambered in 303 british. All M10 actioned rifles chambered in 303Brit, whether military or factory sporter, had a magazine
Protruding through the floor plate in front of the trigger guard.
The M10 actioned rifles in 280 Ross had a blind magazine, solid steel floor plate and a steel magazine follower exactly like the one in the pictures. Pretty sure the original poster has found himself a re-stocked and re-barreled 280 Ross factory sporter.
