The Probert Encyclopaedia of Warfare

ROSS

The Ross rifle Mk III is a Canadian rifle taking a .303 inch round from a 5-round box magazine. Operation is straight pull. The muzzle velocity is 794 meters-per-second and it has a 765 mm barrel and is sighted to 1098 meters. Production of the Ross rifle started in 1905 and continued until 1917 at the Ross Rifle Company in Quebec. The weapon was adopted by the Canadian army until 1915 when the mud of Flanders defeated the bolt action causing difficult extraction, but then the rifle was employed by the British Home Guard from 1940.
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