The Ross Arrives!

[Ontario Hunter]

I actually had my hands on one of these a couple of years ago. My trap team captain inherited it when his dad died. He let one of our teammates play with it and the guy removed the bolt. Chris couldn't figure out how to get it back in the rifle. Asked me to try so I took it home. It took the better part of an hour. He asked me if I was interested in buying it for a few hundred bucks ... with five boxes of original ammo! I'm no gun collector and certainly not one to rip off an acquaintance. I had my safari buddy sell it for him at a gun show. I seem to recall it sold for $1700 Canadian and the ammo sold for almost as much. An interesting gun (straight pull action) and cartridge. WAY WAY ahead of its time. I believe 280 Ross was the first factory cartridge to exceed 3K fps. Savage tried to claim that breakthrough with 250-3000 but apparently their factory loads didn't quite reach 3K.

 

[Grumpy gumpy]

I actually had my hands on one of these a couple of years ago. My trap team captain inherited it when his dad died. He let one of our teammates play with it and the guy removed the bolt. Chris couldn't figure out how to get it back in the rifle. Asked me to try so I took it home. It took the better part of an hour. He asked me if I was interested in buying it for a few hundred bucks ... with five boxes of original ammo! I'm no gun collector and certainly not one to rip off an acquaintance. I had my safari buddy sell it for him at a gun show. I seem to recall it sold for $1700 Canadian and the ammo sold for almost as much. An interesting gun (straight pull action) and cartridge. WAY WAY ahead of its time. I believe 280 Ross was the first factory cartridge to exceed 3K fps. Savage tried to claim that breakthrough with 250-3000 but apparently their factory loads didn't quite reach 3K.

The Ross cartridge was the first to beat 3000fps, second was one of Neidners, then the 250-3000
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