Ross Rifle 1910 M-10??

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Hey guys maybe you can help me. just pulled out of the family safe a Ross Rifle 1910 m-10. It has no markings for chamber size. very long barrel with a round front hood and 1000m flip up rear sights. the bolt has 7 lugs on it. the stock has be sporterized but still uses the barrel band.

sorry no pics did not have my camara and at my place now.

any info would be great.

also in the safe was a 1892 winchester .38wcf short barrel all orig, and a snider-enfield carbine 1862 .577 artillery model.
 
You have a Mark III .303 service rifle with a cut stock. Sounds as if the barrel has not been cut. Does the rifle have a number of stampings on the right side of the buttstock? What sort of condition is it in?
 
If the magazine sticks down from the belly of the rifle and you can see it, it's a .303. The .280 cartridge had a smaller bullet but a MUCH bigger case. If it were a .280, the entire magazine would be inside the rifle with the rounds stacked in double-column. The .303 magazine was not long enough or wide enough to handle the .280; it was a monster...... still is, for that matter.

Friend tiriaq is quite right: these were marked profusvely in military service. Often, it is possible to track much of the rifle's actual military service from the stamps in the wood. Check the underside and the right side of the but for stampings. Check again with a "black light". Then check the chamber and the receiver ring and the rear face of the bolt-body (right where the safety is mounted) and see if there is anything there. THEN get back to us here and watch the feeding frenzy. SOME of these markings have been on there for over 90 years and we are just now beginning to understand them.

Nice find!
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the 280 is a great long and fat cartridge

from right to left, .280 ross, 30-06, 8mm mauser, 7.62x54r, .303 brit. and 8mm kurtz.
 
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