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.280 Ross and the Canadian Model 1910, any good reference material?

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I just got done re-reading Herbert McBride’s book “a rifleman went to war” about his experiences as a machine gunner and sniper in the trenches with our northern neighbors in the Great War and he talks a good deal about the Accuracy and flat trajectory of the Ross model 1910 rifles they attempted to bring into combat. the Wikipedia article talks a lot about the politics that got the rifle approved for service and how the interrupted thread bolt lugs and straight pull bolt made for a rifle that needed constant attention and had troubles with frozen bolts in winter service, my question is do any of you guys know of a good book on these rifles or even better, have first hand experience shooting one? There aren’t many good pictures of the military variant available online and I’m curious about them.
 
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Since this forum is supposed to be about vintage sniper rifles, I thought this excerpt might be of interest re the Ross Mk 3 - esp the last sentence.
Source, Military Small Arms of the 20th Century , 7th Edition, (2000), by Ian Hogg, page 177.
 

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