An AmericanCanadian .303 British World War I military rifle… there is so much going on with this 1905 Ross Mk.II (technically, Mark II 3*). In many ways it had three lives. First, it was a cutting edge battle rifle, at least briefly. When the Ross failed to hold up to the miserable conditions of trench warfare, it was relegated to storage but found a second life in the hands of U.S. doughboys, training in 1917 and 1918. A generation later, the remaining Ross rifles owned by the U.S. government went back to Canada in 1940 as LendLease, to train Canadian soldiers in the early days of World War II.

Just a fun, sweet shooting rifle, I can’t wait to spend more trigger time with!