Just got a Sporterized Ross 1910

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Bought it on the EE, and someone did a nice job. It is a cruel thing that the range I shoot at does not have a winter road.
 
Ghey are suppose to be super accurate. Good rifle to scope and the straight pull back bolt is awesome. I would like one too. What do they cost these days?
 
Nelson84 said:
Ghey are suppose to be super accurate. Good rifle to scope and the straight pull back bolt is awesome. I would like one too. What do they cost these days?
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They are super accurate, that's for sure. But scoping a Ross is like drilling speed holes in a Ferrari! As delivered the are a wonder to shoot and are capable of more then they ought to be. Let's see some pics of that Ross!
 
Tinman204 said:
They are super accurate, that's for sure. But scoping a Ross is like drilling speed holes in a Ferrari! As delivered the are a wonder to shoot and are capable of more then they ought to be. Let's see some pics of that Ross!
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I have seen some pictures of canadian soldiers that were snipers that had scopes on Ross rifles. But I am the same way I have a mosin and a svt-40 and I am not putting scopes on them. Only one close to a scope is a red dot on a .22 that's as far as I go. I don't like fiddle farting around dialing a rifle with a scope.
 
I agree and that is correct a Ross sniper rifle was scoped, involving removal of the rear sight and modifying the wood. My Ross looks just like a sniper rifle with cut back wood and a full length barrel but the left side of the wood under the top of the reciever isn't cut lower to accommodate the scope mount so I know it was never a sniper rifle. I have no scopes in my collection except for my wife's .22 marlin. I feel like I'm cheating when I shoot a scoped gun!
 
From the research I have done Ross rifle did indeed jam. They were built to very tight tolerances and didn't do well in the mud, but if they were kept clean they were great rifles. The difference between a Ross and enfield is the Ross was built to chamber Canadian ammo which was of a higher tolerances then the british stuff. British ammo was built to all sizes and tolerances but the enfield with it's enlarged chamber could handle all different specs of brass and could be filled with mud and still function. This is why people put rubber bands around new brass for Enfields to take up the slop in the chamber and fire form the brass to fit. Case in point, my no1 mk3 has a sloppy chamber and there's no way my Ross will chamber brass that has been fired by the old no1, but the no1 will chamber brass fired by the Ross. The failure of the Ross was due more to government blunder and less to it being a bad rifle.
 
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