Ross help

[Light Infantry]

What do I have here? I know its a Ross, but what else can you guys tell me about this rifle.

I assume the sights are not original?

I believe it was built in 1916.

i believe it was assigned to the 16th Batt. CEF.

Bore is pretty minty from what i can tell, but needs the cobwebs removed.

I believe the bolt is unpinned.

i can take more pics if anyone is interested.

 

[cigar_man]

British NRA competition rifle?

Canadian DCRA rifles of that era where more or less of the No1 MK III family.

I have seen similar years ago that where imported from the UK by the English chap (Graham Griffi___) at the Ancaster Gun show,,,way back when.

Ross rifles fitted with Parker Hale sights. (P14's, M1917's)
Big dollars back then, $400.00

He had tables of treasures and got pissed off with Canada's new firearms legislation and moved south of the 49th.

If I remember correctly, he got all of Parker Hales goods that where left over when the company was sold off.

Buckets of sights, barrels (Enfield heavy snake skinned hammer forged barrels) and you name it's.

 

[Light Infantry]

^^^Could be. You need to drop by, smoke a cigar and have a look. It does have "NOT ENGLISH MAKE", surrounded by a patterned scroll mark around it on the barrel and receiver.

top of the ladder of the rear sight has "B.S.A. MARTIN" stamped on it.

 

[tiriaq]

The rifle was obviously set up for target shooting. My II** target rifle has a BSA Martin sight too.

 

[flying pig]

I also have a BSA Martin sight here. Bet that Ross made a beautiful target rifle.

 

[cantom]

How long is that barrel? Definitely looks to be a lot shorter than 30 1/2".

I wonder how it shoots?

BTW, where is Smellie these days??????

 

[enefgee]

That's freaking beautiful.

 

[Ballsofice154]

wow that is nice...

Any pics of the right hand side of the butt stock to see if any of the markings can be identified par chance?

 

[Light Infantry]

i have to retake the pics, they didnt come out that well on the buttstock.

 

[RRCo.]

Nice find. Probably a range rifle from the 30s to 50s. That foresight is much later than the backsight, which dates from before WWI. Rifle is unfortunately shortened as mentioned above. 16th Batt. is a nice one to have. Could be one somebody brought it back from the war, there's even a slight chance it was set up for plinking stahlhelms in said war, though the rifles cut down for that were usually cut down to the middle band.

You can see the nose cap has been set higher than usual on the forend and the hole probably enlarged(?) so that it does not contact the barrel(?) the crossbolt may have been set lower too, to clear the bottom of the barrel. Somebody "accurizing" back in the day.

The BSA Martin backsights were used on the Canadian Rosses at Bisley before WWI BTW.

 

[diopter]

My cup of tea.