Styer M95 - 8x56R
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^^^Watching that animation shows me a few things that (I think) would've made the Ross a much better rifle for the average Canadian infantryman.
1: instead of 6 locking lugs on the bolt, go to two large ones like the Mauser Gew98. Easier and cheaper manufacturing, plus a little more tolerant of dirt, mud, residue, etc.
2: instead of the 5 round magazine, modify the receiver so the 10 round Lee-Enfield magazine would fit.
3: loosen up the chamber tolerances a bit so it could use British-made ammo instead of being limited to the closer-to-spec Canadian ammo.
4: shorten the damn barrel to SMLE length - no need for a 30" barrel in a service rifle.
It probably would've lost some accuracy with the shorter barrel and looser chamber tolerances, but I think that with those modifications it could've been a very good rifle (and could've been fired even faster than the SMLE). Too bad the Ross never really got the development it needed back in the early 1900's. Oh well.........
1: instead of 6 locking lugs on the bolt, go to two large ones like the Mauser Gew98. Easier and cheaper manufacturing, plus a little more tolerant of dirt, mud, residue, etc.
2: instead of the 5 round magazine, modify the receiver so the 10 round Lee-Enfield magazine would fit.
3: loosen up the chamber tolerances a bit so it could use British-made ammo instead of being limited to the closer-to-spec Canadian ammo.
4: shorten the damn barrel to SMLE length - no need for a 30" barrel in a service rifle.
It probably would've lost some accuracy with the shorter barrel and looser chamber tolerances, but I think that with those modifications it could've been a very good rifle (and could've been fired even faster than the SMLE). Too bad the Ross never really got the development it needed back in the early 1900's. Oh well.........
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^^^Watching that animation shows me a few things that (I think) would've made the Ross a much better rifle for the average Canadian infantryman.
1: instead of 6 locking lugs on the bolt, go to two large ones like the Mauser Gew98. Easier and cheaper manufacturing, plus a little more tolerant of dirt, mud, residue, etc.
2: instead of the 5 round magazine, modify the receiver so the 10 round Lee-Enfield magazine would fit.
3: loosen up the chamber tolerances a bit so it could use British-made ammo instead of being limited to the closer-to-spec Canadian ammo.
4: shorten the damn barrel to SMLE length - no need for a 30" barrel in a service rifle.
It probably would've lost some accuracy with the shorter barrel and looser chamber tolerances, but I think that with those modifications it could've been a very good rifle (and could've been fired even faster than the SMLE). Too bad the Ross never really got the development it needed back in the early 1900's. Oh well.........
To be fair all the changes that needed to be made were made by 1916, they even trialed a shortened version of the Ross with the bugs worked out. Apparently the soldiers doing the trials preferred the Ross to the SMLE at that point in time. Unfortunately the confidence in the rifle was lost by that point so the rest is history but it would have been interesting to see what would have happened if the Ross was given the same amount of development time the Lee Enfield had been given (because the Lee Enfield was a absolutely terrible rifle when first adopted, full of issues just as bad as the Ross).
