LF infos about a ross cal .280
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Ross Model Nomenclature & Prices
1.Your .280 M-10- The added recoil pad removes your rifle from the "collectible" category, but as a shooter, something around $600-$700 would be fair to buyer and seller, as long as condition is there.
2.Your .303 MkIII- As long as the stock hasn't been sanded and all else is original, somewhere in the $750 range...
John-
1.Your .280 M-10- The added recoil pad removes your rifle from the "collectible" category, but as a shooter, something around $600-$700 would be fair to buyer and seller, as long as condition is there.
2.Your .303 MkIII- As long as the stock hasn't been sanded and all else is original, somewhere in the $750 range...
Some buddies had one in their house after their dad died.
I found it in the corner of the room I was staying in when i was 16, beautiful, light dark wood, deep blued 280 Ross.
I already had my M10 Bubba 303 Ross and just worshipped this gun. I'd heard of the 280 sporters but this was the first one I had ever seen. Slick as snot on a doorknob.
Asked one of them about it a couple years ago, over 30 years later.
"You know," he said. "I don't know what happened to that gun."
I found it in the corner of the room I was staying in when i was 16, beautiful, light dark wood, deep blued 280 Ross.
I already had my M10 Bubba 303 Ross and just worshipped this gun. I'd heard of the 280 sporters but this was the first one I had ever seen. Slick as snot on a doorknob.
Asked one of them about it a couple years ago, over 30 years later.
"You know," he said. "I don't know what happened to that gun."
The M10 .280 is the only Ross known to have blown back and killed users on a number of occasions. The reasons are not clear, but full information is in "The Ross Rifle Story". The Scotch Deer Stalkers (1907 .280) have never been known to do so.
Wrong re-assembly of the bolt, which allows it to drive back when fired. I've heard about it for decades, never, ever seen one that did it, or the remains of a rifle that it had happned to. The other "death by Ross" often alluded to is from using too lightly constructed a bullet on dangerous game, with annoyed ticked off animal to deal with after. - dan
Apparently in some cases the bolt was NOT incorrectly assembled. Worth reading the chapter in The Ross Rifle Story devoted to this, as they go into considerable detail on the seven or eight known cases of .280 M10 blowbacks. There is some suggestion that "self-opening" may occur in some cases in the .280 M10.
I would have no reservations about shooting an 1905 or M10 in .303 though.
I agree that the .280s are beautiful rifles with a wonderful feel and natural point, as well as being great pieces of history.
I would have no reservations about shooting an 1905 or M10 in .303 though.
I agree that the .280s are beautiful rifles with a wonderful feel and natural point, as well as being great pieces of history.
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Where they rechambered/rebarrelled afterwards ?
I have a Cut down .303 british Ross Rifle 1910, I have to Assume that's an M10.
Rossguy's teeth grind when people call Ross rifles M10. Only one sporter model was so named, the military .303's were Mk II, Mk III etc, which was only stamped into the wood buttstock. If that was sanded off then naturally people would call them an M10 as that's what's stamped on the action...you most likely have a sporterized Mk III.
