Discover the scariest 'treason' gun of World War 1

Possessing many desirable features at the time, but a design flaw made Ross rifles quickly rejected by Canadian soldiers and soon discarded while still in its infancy.

Born in the early 20th century and accepted into the official military of Canada in 1905. It must be affirmed, Ross is a very good rifle design , it has extremely high accuracy. (Image source: Wiki).

However, a design flaw has turned expectations into an obsession for every soldier when given the Ross password. It is a faulty mechanism design that does not cover the barrel of the barrel. (Image source: Tube).

All of the breech-lock parts and the breech rails are exposed outside the gun body without protection. It was this that made the Ross rifle resistant to dirt, completely unsuitable for the type of trench warfare during World War I. (Image source: Tube).

To make matters worse, the British-designed .303 (7,70x56mm R) caliber. The British-made Canadian calibers were not up to standard. This makes the Canadian soldiers on the front line not only holding a "rusty" gun but even its bullets are not good. (Image source: Wiki).

This was the most difficult problem that Canada encountered at the time. However, because it was impossible to replace guns in the wartime, Ross was still in service with the Canadian army until the end of the war. (Image source: Lockand).

Because it was forced to use, Canadian soldiers had to bite their teeth to endure, besides they tried to fix one of the two "fatal errors" - using .303 ammunition produced by the UK instead of Canadian bullets. (Image source: Mesium).

Basically, Ross was a rifle with the fighting power equivalent to all rifles at that time. (Image source: Pinterest).

This gun has a length of 1320mm, of which the barrel is 774 mm long. Combined with the caliber 7.70x56mm, it can effectively destroy targets at distances of up to 2 km. (Image source: WWII).

Because it was a manual rifle, Ross only had a rate of fire of about 20 rounds per minute and was accompanied by a 20-round magazine. (Image source: WWII).

During World War I, Canadian soldiers gradually switched to using other allied guns and almost all Canadian soldiers on the front did not use Ross anymore, but instead used American M1903 guns. manufacturing. (Image source: Ross).

By 1918, after World War I, the Canadian military officially removed the entire "sniffer" gun to replace it with the American-designed M1903 rifle with much greater reliability. (Image source: Ross).

In total, during service to the Canadian military, 420,000 Ross rifles were produced. However, until the border was eliminated, there were more than 100,000 Ross guns still hard in the warehouse because in addition to the front line, even if they needed guns, they did not require this type of gun. (Image source: Tube).

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