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Wow! That has to be a Huot!

Please post lots more pics, they would be the first...I've never seen a single clear pic of one. Priceless, more please!

Is the barrel suppressed or is that to contain the gas system?

How is it fed? Is it a belt fed conversion?
 
Huot! I actually coughed up my breakfast on the computer!


Please tell me you have a lot of pics of that...

Who did you sleep with to be able to play with that??

Edit - any sign of the drum mag?
 
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If that's a HUOT then the Wikipedia article could sure use a picture of it. Maybe one of the one's posted?
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Have you seen the Wikipedia image of the Ross Rifle? It's a pic of that bubba'd POS in the RCR Museum here in London. Better to have no pic that one like that!
 
Hope you took lots of good photos. We'd sure like to see some more. An excellent weapon for the time and a hell of a lot cheaper and handier than a Lewis gun (1/6th the price). There aren't any really good photos even in "The Ross Rifle Story".

That seems to be Huot No2, so you should be able to trace its history through the Blair Papers. Seems there were about six made, four were sent to England and France for extensive tests, which they passed 'with flying colours'.

Which of course goes to show that the problem with the Ross rifle was primarily the ammunition. Even so the Huot fired thousands of rounds of US and UK made ammo well known for being oversize, having soft cases etc.

Gen. Currie recommended in Oct. 1918 that the Huot be adopted for the Canadian Corps after seeing it demonstrated in France. Had the war not ended, probably it would have been.

The Huot had a piston mounted parallel to the left side of the barrel. Actuated by gas pressure behind the bullet, it pushed the straight-pull bolt sleeve rearward. This, in turn, opened the breech by moving the bolt rearward. While the empty case was being removed [ie: ejected], an arm with positive motion rotated the moving parts of the magazine to line up a live round that was pushed forward by the bolt. The rotation of the movable interior part of the magazine was accomplished by the arm engaging a ratchet wheel at the top rear of the magazine and the bolt moved forward by a spring which was compressed when the breech opened. The cooling method and configuration indicated a copy of the system used on the Lewis gun....The gun could be belt fed by running the belt over the the magazine drum. It only weighed 33.25 lbs complete and loaded. The Ross Rifle Story, pps. 354-363.
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Take care of it, that is one rare and unique piece of Canadian history.

How's the rifling? That would give some indication of the life of this example.

Is the magazine present?.

In any other country we'd get to see a documentary showing it being fired...
 
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