Ross Rifle video

[x westie]

An interesting Ross Rifle video, this guy has a nice collection, love that straight pull bolt, smooth and fast



Collector preserves ill-fated Canadian WW1 rifles

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[rayg]

Interesting watching the rapid firing of the Ross and seeing how the position of the straight bolt handle requires a bit of a movement for the hand to switch to the trigger. I bet you could probably increase the firing speed even more using a down turn bolt handle and probably even more using the French MAS 36 bent bolt style where your hand/finger is closer to the trigger each time. Knowing how fast the LE can fire in rapid fire I would think the Ross with a bent bolt handle could compete with it if not be even a little faster. Maybe they figured that the straight bolt handle provided more leverage to close or to open a stuck cartridge in the chamber then a belt bolt handle in a straight pull. Which probably did help in the trenches later on. Anyway, Just a thought, Ray

[browningautorifle]

I sort of agree Ray, if the straight pull was so great, why weren't there more of them and why didn't they come to the top. There were several patterns, but they sank into obscurity, or in this case were cast into a shell hole and a #1 mk3 was picked up. Nice enough for collecting and plinking, but...