Found an M-10 original .280 Ross Sporter

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Just got hold of a very nice .280 Ross sporter. Barrel is very shiny with sharp rifling. Bolt is not pinned.
Stock is very nice and slender but somewhere, somebody felt the need to remove the shallow checkering with sandpaper before refinishing.
I'll try to have it recut with a finer pattern.
It has a single blade folding express sight calibrated to 500 yards and a flat plate dovetailed where the usual peep sight resides on military models.
Somewhere, I have seen this plate replaced with what looked like a small pop-up peep sight. What is that sight and where can I get one?
Pics will follow in a short while.
Merry Christmas to you all! :D
PP.
 
vviking said:
Please show us that pop up peep PP.
Grandad's .303 M10 sporter has one, I've been trying to identify it.
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Here's pic of one of my original military MKIII Ross showing the military rear-sight lying flat. Could be raised and fully adjustable unlike the M-10 .280 factory sporter "Porter peep".
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Pics would help here, but assuming your Grandfather's Ross is a sporterized MKIII Ross (to be correct), it likely has it's original adjustable rear sight. The "Porter peep-sight" was specific only to the M-10 .280 (being correct again). The model 1910R was a factory sporter available in .303, but it came with a Winchester buckhorn rear sight.
Anything concerning Ross rifle's is very debatable mind you.
Geoff
 
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If you can get a hold of' The Ross Rifle Story' by Philips, Dupuis, and Chadwick, plate 297 has a copy of the application ( accepted 4th June 1914 ) ,and plate 298A a picture of a top view of the sight, along with a Lyman folder the photos are captioned thusly..... top view of the Lyman sight folded forward. on the bridge is a FWH Porter patent sight. There are four known variations of the latter sight of a manufacturing nature only.......
Good luck
 
Wow, that is such a beauty Ross you've got there longbranch*. Drool.

My Ross currently wears the same sight as in your pic, but that one was installed by me from a donor/beater that I picked up cheap, for parts/spares and the sporter stock that it wore. Grandads stock was badly split and bubba-butchered to a fare thee well.
Not wanting to mess with the front blade to zero, the military rear sight was swapped out as well.

The sight I'm curious about is a small, simple, folding peep, mounted on the bridge, and non adjustable for windage or for elevation.

Unfortunately, I don't own a digital camera.
 
PP,
Most M-10 came from the factory with the filler block and the Porter sight was a 4.00 $ option. Also, the Ross Rifle Co. was willing, at extra cost, to install at the factory almost anything one would like to have.
The checkering of the M-10 is 18 lines per inch, if this can help.
Now, you will need to get yourself a set of dies, brass and bullets!
 
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