Ross Sporting rifle 1910-M

Eagleye said:
Beautiful rifle OP :)

I have a military M10 Ross that someone sporterized before I acquired it. It has a newer stock in the sporter pattern.

The barrel was toast when I got it [303 British], so I decided to fix that. Through Jerry at Mystic Precision, I ordered
up a McGowen in the original contour, then had Dave Jennings fit, chamber and blue the rifle. It has become quite
special to me, and I took it hunting a couple of years ago.....shot a fat WT doe with it.

It is very accurate, often three shots touch at 100M. The action is unique, and it is not hard on brass at all. Dave.
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That's cool!
 
Gentlemen:
Anyone who has a real knowledge of Rosses knows that the quality, designs and executions of the Ross rifles were superb.
In WW1, the MK III Ross was sabotaged by the Brit’s with inferior ammunition (Out of spec and improperly annealed) supplied (along with everything else……read about it) and the machine gunners and aircraft amourers would hoard Canadian ammo or their Vickers and other makes would also jam JUST when they were needed most. The inspectors and backward military in Canada mandated (read “The Ross rifle Story”) that the MKIII be a bayonet handle” (as my father used to call them) with too long and too heavy barrels so that when it was used as a “pike” it would “stand the gaff” (military intelligence). Thus MKIIIs are an unwieldy, barrel heavy club of an army rifle and unsuitable to carry in the woods even with cut down barrels.
IRT miss-assembly of the bolt, which all detractors obsess about, it was really a way to clean the gene pool of idiots.
In a lifetime of collecting and shooting Rosses (and cleaning the clocks of the LE guys with young eyes) and still a few dozen in the gun room I have acquired a passing knowledge of Rosses.
Fascinating, engaging, and entertaining.
Cheers
OGC
 
Oldguncrank said:
Gentlemen:
Anyone who has a real knowledge of Rosses knows that the quality, designs and executions of the Ross rifles were superb.
In WW1, the MK III Ross was sabotaged by the Brit’s with inferior ammunition (Out of spec and improperly annealed) supplied (along with everything else……read about it) and the machine gunners and aircraft amourers would hoard Canadian ammo or their Vickers and other makes would also jam JUST when they were needed most. The inspectors and backward military in Canada mandated (read “The Ross rifle Story”) that the MKIII be a bayonet handle” (as my father used to call them) with too long and too heavy barrels so that when it was used as a “pike” it would “stand the gaff” (military intelligence). Thus MKIIIs are an unwieldy, barrel heavy club of an army rifle and unsuitable to carry in the woods even with cut down barrels.
IRT miss-assembly of the bolt, which all detractors obsess about, it was really a way to clean the gene pool of idiots.
In a lifetime of collecting and shooting Rosses (and cleaning the clocks of the LE guys with young eyes) and still a few dozen in the gun room I have acquired a passing knowledge of Rosses.
Fascinating, engaging, and entertaining.
Cheers
OGC
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Very interesting! Thanks fr sharing you knowledge on the subject!
 
The lousy British ammo did play a large part in the jamming issues. It IS possible to misassemble a mk.3(1910) bolt improperly so that the locking lugs do not engage fully with the mating recesses in the action but it requires a shocking amount of effort and no small amount of stupidity to do so. As far as strength goes, the 1910 Ross is stronger than the 03 Springfiels, 98 mauser, lee enfield and just about every other bolt action service rifle with the exception of the Arisaka. PO Ackley could not blow up a Ross action in his overload tests.
 
Mike Webb said:
The lousy British ammo did play a large part in the jamming issues. It IS possible to misassemble a mk.3(1910) bolt improperly so that the locking lugs do not engage fully with the mating recesses in the action but it requires a shocking amount of effort and no small amount of stupidity to do so. As far as strength goes, the 1910 Ross is stronger than the 03 Springfiels, 98 mauser, lee enfield and just about every other bolt action service rifle with the exception of the Arisaka. PO Ackley could not blow up a Ross action in his overload tests.
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Ye be correct on all those points fer sure.
 
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