Offhand I'd say you're a good shot!
It was offhand wasn't it?;)
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Offhand I'd say you're a good shot!
It was offhand wasn't it?;)
I'm shooting only 1 time a month maximum, so I'm not that great with rifles as I usually just take them off the market and jail them in my gun room ;) . But the Ross is really unbelieveable - good trigger, smooth action and good results even with no-name ammo. The only thing is the adjustment of the sight, it's not that firm on my rifle. Oh yeah, and I'm having problems every time to find a range bag where I can put it in ...
Yes, if they'd made the MkIII 8 inches shorter and fed it only good Canadian ammo history might have been very different. As I've posted before, Hesketh-Prichard mentions making a cloverleaf at 100 yards with a MkIII. Yours is even better, being 200m.Quote:
Originally Posted by Promo
Frank Iriam, "In the Trenches, 1914-1918".Quote:
During the time we were here in training we were sent to a rifle range belonging to some British unit. This range was short and all firing done at ranges of 100 or 200 yards. It was located in an old sandpit. It was in charge of an old English officer. I guess he was too elderly for front line service. He was training his men here in the use of the short Lee Enfield. The best he was getting for groups with the new barrels equipped with English-made telescopes was three and four inches at 100 and 200 yards. We were using the Mk.3 Ross equipped with a Winchester scope. He started us in to shoot at 100 yards. Jack Harron an ex-Alberta Ranger was my shooting mate. We two put on successive groups of five shots in one inch and three quarter inch circles at 100 yards. The old Imperial officer was flabbergasted. He took our rifles and put a testing plug through the bore to measure them. He told us they tested out better than the brand new barrels that was getting from the English works. The rifles we shot had been in front line service for nearly a year and a half. I myself shot with old Ypres Lizzie. I had her equipped with a Winchester scope by the battalion armourer. He (the Imperial officer) asked me if I had ever been to Bisley. I told I had practiced on moose and deer and such-like in the woods country. This was all new and strange stuff to him and he was real interested about it. We had quite a yarn together about rifles and such.
Is the fact that the follower gets stuck at the bottom when the magazine is fully loaded a common problem among Ross M1910s? Does someone know advice?
Not something I've heard of myself. Best take it apart and clean as a first step, then work the platform by hand and look for possible points of contact.