My [new to me] Ross 1910 Sporter.

Eagleye

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I recently acquired a 1910 Ross Sporter from another Gunnut on here. [Already have a military 1910]
The receiver had been drilled and tapped at least twice, so no collector value, but I bought it mainly for the lumber, which is in great shape.

I scrubbed it up, and took a look with my borescope....the tube looks quite good, slug pushed through the bore measured up at .3115".

So I decided to take it out and shoot it.
I mounted a rail on it to accept weaver-type rings, and mounted a 6x42 Leupold on it.

Fired only 2 loads. 1. 180 grain Remington Cor-Lokt SPRN, chased by 44 grains of IMR 4320.
2, 180 Grain Sierra FB Spitzer SP, chased by 43 grains of Norma 202.
Don't worry, you protocol police, I worked up from below while getting this on paper, lol.

I did not chronograph these loads in this rifle, but they are not mild loads.

However, what I did see was a very accurate 100 [+ -] year old rifle. Both loads were flirting with 1 moa.
Surprisingly, the C-L bullet seemed to be slightly more inclined to cluster close than did the Sierra, which is opposite to the way they act in my P14 and P14 Epps.

Nevertheless, I am very pleased with this performance, and I may take the old girl hunting this fall, just for the fun of it. :)

Regards, Dave
 
I had a Ross many years ago and really liked it. I was impressed with the action and can see that in the trenches of WW1 with the slop of the mud it could be a problem. Don't go mud bog'n with it and it'll be fine.

Sadly I gave it back to the friend that I got it from, he wanted to re-bore it to a big-bore of some type. Apparently it was one of the few rifles that had enough material to allow the change and still be strong enough. I don't know what caliber he wanted but he didn't get it done before he passed away (Old age.) and the gun went to someone else.
 
Eagleye, I had no idea you had an interest in OLD military rifles. Once you have owned and shot a ROSS you have developed a problem, you will find if ever you sell all your ROSS rifles that you have this feeling something missing. Yup been there done that, sold off 3 Ross rifles, just had find another, very addicting.
enjoy
 
I too have been bitten by the Ross bug as of late. Three in the rack with more coming.
The are just fun to shoot and damned accurate to boot.
Just had three 303 sporter barrels sent from Bevan King. Took a while but will be worth the wait.
I do have a spare stainless tube in 303 and if your in need of a new barrel for one of your Ross rifles.
get a hold of me via PM. I do have a rather fine match chamber reamer for the 303 British.

RC
 
Blastattack said:
A friend and I are rebuilding a pair of Rosses to .300 Win Mag and (FOR SCIENCE!) .338 Lapua Mag.

Would you mind posting a pic of your scope setup?
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I was under the impression they couldn't handle that big of a shell. When are we gonna hear more about this? I've got a ross sporter that would be suitable for alteration as well but didn't think it could be done, .35 whelen with a 20" barrel or similar would be fun in one of these.
 
My first rifle was a 1910 home shop sporter 303. It was a gift to me at 13 in 1967. I still have it. It killed my first several deer very dead. Funny, I didn't know about the difference between 150 gr. and 180 gr. bullets in those days, nor about the potential difference in POI with different bullets, so with a handful of wildly mismatched cartridges I went hunting.

I knew a local 'smith who converted 280 Ross rifles to 7mm Remington Magnum. He is deceased now and I don't know what happened to his guns. I'm sure the gun show sharks who knew about his collection descended upon his wife like piranhas when he died.
 
I've played with the .280 Ross in the past. Trouble is the bore diameter is larger than standard .284. Proper .287 bullets can be had from Woodleigh though and I've formed bass from .300 H+H. I'd be surprised if any of those .280 to 7m/m mag conversions shot very accurately. I may be wrong.
 
I've a bobbed and bubba'd mk3 and a full length bbl'd bubba'd mk2 with a HUGE chamber.
God, they misused Rosses! Some Knucklehead dropped the mk3 and bent the sight bridge so the bolt would hardly open. I jacked it level with a nut and bolt but I've never shot it more than 300 yds...so it may be good or not at distance.
I don't care enough the post the mk2, but if anyone had inspiration on rechambering without re-bbling...shoot me a line.
But the chamber is BIG 'E' enlarged, so it's touch and go if it'll even reload casings that have been through it.
 
BigUglyMan said:
Maybe I should try putting up a WTT ad on the EE and see what happens.
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Post good pics from both sides... I might be interested in a trade... we'll see how it goes... mine shows really, really well... until you get her to the range..
 
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longbranch* said:
I've played with the .280 Ross in the past. Trouble is the bore diameter is larger than standard .284. Proper .287 bullets can be had from Woodleigh though and I've formed bass from .300 H+H. I'd be surprised if any of those .280 to 7m/m mag conversions shot very accurately. I may be wrong.
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I also form my .280 Ross cases from .300 H&H. I initially shot mine with 7mm bullets until my Woodleigh order arrived getting sub 2' groups at 100 yd with the irons.
The Woodleighs strangely produced much larger groups some in excess of 4"! I went back to using the .284" Hornady 154 gr Interbonds.
 
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