Ross Rifle....

Naw, just adjust your printer to a lesser quality image. Orrrrrr break out the crayolas and make yourself one. I'm too lazy so this is the easy way out for me. It fits/prints on the 8.5X11, so it can be consistent for everyone here.

Besides you rich federal employees can afford a new ink cartridge, AND don't forget the huge check Ralph is sending you :lol: .

Or come up with another target we can all use, doesn't matter to me what I shoot.
 
As far as I know, the Newfoundland Rosses had no distinguishing marks, but likely they would have been quite early in 1910 military production.

Newfoundland SMLE rifles had NFLD. on the butt marking disc, are very rare today. I have seen 2 of these, one still in the hands of the man who ripped if off right after the march into Cologne in 1919. (That was some time ago, mind you.)
 
Is there anyone still watching this thread?

I just discovered it and have recently taken possession of a Ross rifle that my father had been given many years ago. Its a Mk III and has all its parts (no bayonet). Have only just started to decode all of the marks and stamps. Can post pictures in a couple of days if anyone is curious.
 
I just recently aquired a Mk II (modified) bayonet. I thought it had been bubba'ed but did a little research and it was cut by armourers after getting to europe.
 
Yes, the alteration does look a little crude. Keep your eyes open for bayonets altered into knives. Some were formally converted, and aren't the work of laddie with a grinder in the garage. A Mk. III with the bayonet fixed is a rather ungainly piece of equipment.
Thanks to a fellow CGN, who found the dealer listing, I have just acquired a rather nice 10R sporter, which shoots as well as anything can with my eyes and open sights. From Gunco, a 10E followed me home; its been drilled and tapped, so is a great candidate to have an appropriate scope mounted, to deal with the mentionned open sight/eye situation.
 
Yup, lotsa people still watching.

Lotsa Ross bayonets converted into trench knives, too. Can be hard to tell the ones done down on the farm from the ones done in the old French Trench.
 
I have HMS Canada DA 99 mismatched with DA104's bolt, all un- Bubba'd. It was made in 1915, has M95 on the grip and 'E' stamped on the barrel over the chamber. There are 4 wooden plugs making a 1" square pattern on the left side above the magazine. Shoots as tightly with the peep sight as my No 4 Mk1 (T) does with the scope.
Also have a 10E sporter, and Bubba'd MkII and MkIII.
 
theDuck said:
I have HMS Canada DA 99 mismatched with DA104's bolt, all un- Bubba'd. It was made in 1915, has M95 on the grip and 'E' stamped on the barrel over the chamber. There are 4 wooden plugs making a 1" square pattern on the left side above the magazine. Shoots as tightly with the peep sight as my No 4 Mk1 (T) does with the scope.
Also have a 10E sporter, and Bubba'd MkII and MkIII.
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Sell a gun....buy a digital camera...

AND POST SOME PICS :)
 
I have a Ross m-10 with the markings DCP, the E on the chamber, "not english make", and nitro proved, 356 LW stamped on back of bolt, but there are absolutly no markings on the stock at all. any ideas on the history of this one, I am from newfoundland so I was wondering if it was one meant for the Newfoundland Regiment.
 
Had one with no marks on the stock.Believe it was a spare parts stock assembled to a damaged rifle. It was a late production birch stock.
The commercial Home Guard MkIIIs sometimes are unmarked on the butt but they are early production walnut.
 
E on the chamber indicates an enlarged chamber done and stamped at the Ross factory in 1915 so it would not be one of the arms supplied to Newfoundland in 1914.
Ross MkIIIB rifles produced on the British contracr also had no butt stamp.
 
Yet another Ross, obtained from another CGN member. This is a fine 1905 factory sporter, an "R", I believe.
 
green said:
E on the chamber indicates an enlarged chamber done and stamped at the Ross factory in 1915 so it would not be one of the arms supplied to Newfoundland in 1914.
Ross MkIIIB rifles produced on the British contracr also had no butt stamp.
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Chambers were reamed in England and IIRC, France as well. Not sure if marked though.
 
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