Is this Receiver worth saving? Some one was just going to throw it out and I save it for one thing a two digit number on the receiver. The barrel is toast but I can,t remove it. All I have for part are a trigger and guard and mag follower.
Ross Worth saving???
- Thread starter oldlithgow
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What Mk
What Mk is this model it only has a two digit serial on it? I will try to remove it. The screw in the Photo does it help hold the barrel as well. This is a Item I don't intend to keep, to much work. Yes the barrel is full thength but the front sight is bubba-ed.
What Mk is this model it only has a two digit serial on it? I will try to remove it. The screw in the Photo does it help hold the barrel as well. This is a Item I don't intend to keep, to much work. Yes the barrel is full thength but the front sight is bubba-ed.
It is a Mk. II. Could have been assembled as any Mk. II rifle, except for a II**. Don't put too much faith in the 2 digit number on the receiver, Rosses were serial numbered on the right side of the butt if military, on the left side of the breech of the barrel if civilian.
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- Manitoulin Island
Looks like the set screw that locks the barrel in place is already out. See photos in my post below "Ross MkII Nostar Barrel/Rcvr Assy". Left hand thread, turn CLOCKWISE to loosen. Be sure you grip the receiver in a manner so as not to collapse it. It is a MkII except for not being a MkII** all else is mystery.
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Looks like surface rust with a bit of light pitting in your very big pictures. That'll come off with 0000 steel and oil or a fine brass wire wheel in a bench grinder(eye protection is mandatory). Finding the rest of the parts will be the issue. Assuming you want to make it work. How's the barrel?
Yeah, is the barrel any good or is it a sewer pipe? Did you put a lubed patch or two down it to have a look see?
The barrel is more of a smooth boreSo its just the receiver that can be saved.
Darnitall...I need one...
With no Ross serial number, and no sign of a little sticky, how did you register it in Kanada? Everything required to make it go bang again is available, but why bother? Your costs would far exceed what you would wind up with in the end? "Part of canada's history"???? c'mon, now....
I've always wondered why they would put the serial # on the stock, and nowhere else. WTF? The butt gets broken off and lost in combat, the armourer replaces the stock, what's the serial # now? My guess is a bunch of complicated forms to fill out requesting a new serial #. This is Canada, after all, and we do love filling out forms.
- Location
- Manitoulin Island
If somebody could set up a Seance and question Sir Charles, there are a hell of a lot of things done in that factory that didn't make a lot of sense. As far as battle damaged rifles go, field repairs done by an armourer just did what was necessasry to produce a servicable rifle and didn't worry much about paperwork. Some factories that did an FTR on Enfields re-stamped the original number if receiver was replaced, but otherwise it would just be a mixmaster.
What ever you do, don't scrap the receiver. This would be an interesting restoration project. I just saw a couple of ross parts including the bolt at the HACS BC show this last weekend, so you can get parts. This would be an interesting restoration project.
Being objective, finding parts to restore a Ross receiver is a fools errand. However chopped and sported Ross's aren't overly uncommon. By no means should you simply bin it, but it should have some value to someone as parts since Ross Parts are pretty hard to find at the best of times. I'd say sell it on the parts EE. Now as for the it's a part of history, well sure it is but there are better and more complete parts of history being turned in to the RCMP every day that are being lost.
- Location
- Manitoulin Island
The receiver is the part that has to be registered. I know of at least one gun shop that chopsawed a bunch of Ross receivers so he wouldn't have to register them. Still has parts. No full length MkIII barrels though.
