Argghhh!

Just wait and see how he had to finish his: BOQ

Welcome to the Castle's Ross M1905 rifle. This is one of the ones the US bought from Canada to remediate a shortage of training weapons during the expansion of the US Army prior to our entry into WWII, as evidenced by the Ordnance "Flaming Bomb" on the underside of the wrist of the stock. One thing I love about Commonwealth weapons is the plethora of markings on them, in the case of the Ross, all the Canadian markings are on the butt . This is a rifle that has been in the Holdings since...

News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front.

As related by Brett Zongker, of the Associated Press:ARLINGTON, Va. – Ray Vivier had been an adventurer, a Marine veteran who explored the country from South Carolina to Alaska, the father of five children.The 61-year-old also was a man starting to get his life back together after living for years in a shanty beneath a Cleveland bridge. He had struggled with alcoholism, but by November he had a welding job, friends and a place to stay at a boarding house.He rescued five people from that house...

For the nonce, unless much better information surfaces - I'm with Don Sensing .

But I dunno, you guys keep asking questions... As Casey observed, it is a top-break weapon. And between that picture above and this one, you can determine how barrel selection is made - i.e., how you choose which barrel you are shooting from when you (literally, on this weapon) squeeze the trigger. Exactly how, I'll leave to you to deduce from the two pictures....

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