Ross ####-Please add your pics!

[H Wally]

Any chance of higher res photos of those Sniper pics?


On that note... I wonder just how many bubba jobs we're out to fix that were actually from someone doing it in the trenches

Would be sweet to see better pics of how those scopes were mounted etc.

With a bubba'd ross it'd be fun to make a mock up repro!!


Not mine - but someone's photobucket account:

 

[drm3m]

I don't have the software to really sharpen these photos without distorting the images.

David

Johnson Paudash

Anecdote from Stephen Nichol's book.

 

[cantom]

Those posts on the previous page about the gent who observed the sniper at work were quite interesting...not a job for the squeamish.

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[cantom]

Ross Sniper Rifle.

 

[RRCo.]

 

[Bojangles]

Ross Cut Away

Hi Guys,
A number of years ago a good friend and I decided to make something good from several Ross Rifles that "Bubba" has ruined beyond any hope of restoration. They were tough, but we got the best parts from each one.

Here is what we made......

regards,

Bill

 

[koldt]

Hey that cut a way is kinda cool. Nice job.

Here's mine. Absolutely pristine barrel. Have to shoot it one of these days. Only had it 8 or 9 years. Maybe 10.

 

[RRCo.]

Beautiful job on the cut-away! Shows the massive receiver ring well.

Regarding the snipers, here's a quote from a German sniper:

"I returned to the front near Vimy Ridge, in early 1917, and we had the Canadians in front of us, who were the very devil. Our snipers could not shoot without retribution and we lost many good men there. Many of my comrades were returned wounded like myself and we were very careful to keep our skins intact so.....we did little sniping there as even for us old trench veterans it was too dangerous."

As Lloyd George put it, "When the Germans learned that the Canadians had entered the trenches opposite, they prepared for the worst".

 

[skirsons]

Newly restored Cadet:

 

[jollyroger]

forgive my ignorance: so what calibre was the Ross origionaly chambered in? anyone wanna give a guy a quick one sentence history on the model numbers and calibres?

 

[cantom]

forgive my ignorance: so what calibre was the Ross origionaly chambered in? anyone wanna give a guy a quick one sentence history on the model numbers and calibres?

Mainly .303 Ross but Ross also invented the .280 Ross calibre.

The history of the company and products is so complicated that you should really buy the Ross Story book.

 

[TheIndifferent1]

 

[Klunk]

 

[tiriaq]

Ross sporters were also made in .35 Winchester.

 

[Rossguy]

Indifferent1- your MkIII- put a hood on the foresight, please. Your bayo- unusual cut on the blade- it looks like it could be one of the HMS Kanada series....is there a "DA" followed by numerals on the crossguard? If yes; is it a set with the rifle numbered to match?

Klunk- Foresight hoods- bevel to the front, please.....I know some of the woodcuts in the early manuals show it as you have it, but early real photos show it bevel forward.

 

[junkman]

There is no "K" in CANADA......................

 

[skirsons]

There is no "K" in CANADA......................

We named her that to fool fritz into thinking it was one of theirs.

 

[Rossguy]

Junkman......Perhaps IMHO only, there's no Canada left in Kanada........

 

[Dantforth]

Boy...those are not nice words to be spoken here. I don't know why but can't say as I agree. If you refer to our gun laws then just take a look around to what's happening in your world right now and hold on in the future. Just an opinion mind you. Dave

 

[TheIndifferent1]

Indifferent1- your MkIII- put a hood on the foresight, please. Your bayo- unusual cut on the blade- it looks like it could be one of the HMS Kanada series....is there a "DA" followed by numerals on the crossguard? If yes; is it a set with the rifle numbered to match?

It's an old photo, it has a hood now

No DA anywhere on the bayonet. The scabbard/frog do have the remnants of what appears to be black paint or stain, so I had figured it was an RCN bayonet. It doesn't match the rifle, sadly.