US couldn't have got into the war in '14 of they had wanted to. All their industrial capacity was clogged with orders for France, Great Britainicon, Russiaicon because none of THEM were ready for a war of that magnitude. The stalemate on the Western Front just made it worse.

Once they DID get involved, it was with enough manpower and enough equipment that, once they got some combat experience (which was extremely costly), Jerry very wisely decided to call it quits.

Private Roland Hart of the Newfoundland Regiment was born on November 11, 1896. When his 22nd birthday came around, he had nearly 4 years of combat under his belt, including some of the roughest actions of the War. He once told me that, "I think they stopped the War just because I'm such a helluvva nice guy. I know there was no OTHER reason to stop it; we all thought it was gonna go on forever."

Theoxrojo, you have one very pretty Ross Rifle and I sincerely hope that it shoots as good as it looks. Ross imported top-quality Frenchicon, Italianicon and Rumanian walnut for stocking these rifles and it looks as if yours got one of the nicest blanks.