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Neat old Rifle

Sam06
Kasey has a Portuguese Kropatschek Carbine for sale. These are really neat rifles.

Check it out

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/834596021

They were made by Steyr and were tube fed. The Portuguese really liked them. I ran into 2 examples of them when I was in DR Congo. I guess they had crossed the border from Angola. One was really rough but the other was still being used to shoot animals for market.



And another very cool gun for sale:
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/831053143

These were very well made guns and highly regarded back before WW2. The 280 Ross cartridge was very powerful for its time right up there close to the 7mm Mag.
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  • Horse Plains Drifter
    Cool, especially the Ross!
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  • Sam06
    If I still was a hunter I would jump on that Ross.


    What a great old hunting rifle!
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  • Horse Plains Drifter
    Sam06 wrote:
    If I still was a hunter I would jump on that Ross.


    What a great old hunting rifle!

    Yep, I kinda thought the same thing, but a quick search shows those shoot a .287 dia. bullet. Then another quick search shows that .287 bullets are readily available, so back to wanting it again!
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  • Sam06
    Yea ammo would be hard to make, that and the bullet size.

    I think you can make cases from Ruger 375 cases and Woodleigh make bullets but they are kind of spendy. Just getting the forming dies together would be expensive.

    BTW the rear sight was only marked 500(Yards) because the rifle was so flat shooting you didn't need to compensate for range inside 500 yards ;) YMMV
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  • Sam06
    Not much time left
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  • NeoBlackdog
    I'd sure like to hear the stories those two could tell!
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  • Sam06
    Kayce did good on the Ross.

    I hope whoever won it will take it out every once in a while a shoot it or even hunt with it.
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  • Ross Rifle
    I just bought a Ross 1910 in 303 that has a scope on it. I intend to hunt this fall with it. 
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  • SCOUT5
    Ross Rifle said:
    I just bought a Ross 1910 in 303 that has a scope on it. I intend to hunt this fall with it. 
    Them falls can be hard to find.  But if you hunt hard from late September to November you can usually find one.  
    Enjoy your new rifle.
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