The straight-pull bolt-action rifle in Battlefield 5
There are many unpopular guns in Battlefield 5, and Gouzi has also made weapons in several issues before. Today, another friend sent me a private message asking me what the Scout's Roth Mark III is. It seems that it also appeared in Battlefield 1 to talk to everyone about it.
First of all, the Ross rifle has indeed been around for a long time. In the 1890s, Sir Charles Ross drew inspiration from the Mannlicher M1895 straight-pull rifle and designed the first Ross rifle named after himself.
Its direct-pull bolt is different from the earlier Mannlicher M1888's straight-pull bolt that has a locking mechanism and is more similar to the two-piece symmetrical Mauser type. The locking tenon is also locked by rotation, but the rotation process is completed through the oblique thread on the machine head and the guide groove of the machine frame. After all, Sir Ross himself is an avid gun enthusiast. He designed this rifle only for daily competitions and hunting, and did not think much about military use. Therefore, the accuracy of this gun is very good.
Then let’s turn our perspective to the Second Boer War from 1899 to 1902. Canada is a member of the Commonwealth. If the British go to Africa to fight, the Canadians must also help. But the Canadians were still equipped with single-person Martini Enfield rifles at that time. They wanted to buy British Lee Enfield rifles. Britain did not have enough production capacity at the time. Canada wanted to open a Lee Enfield production line of its own, but the sovereign country refused to transfer the patent.
This made the Canadians very angry. At this time, Sir Ross went to promote his Ross rifle to Laurier, the then Prime Minister of Canada, saying that my gun was much better than those scumbags from Enfield. Yes, very accurate.
Laurier thought that Sir Ross was also a firearms consultant, so he accepted the suggestion. Ross directly invested in opening a factory to build Ross's production line. The first batch of 12,000 rifles was put into production in 1903.
But generally speaking, there are always problems with the first batch of goods, especially the Ross rifle itself is just a sporting rifle, and does not take into account the core requirements of military rifles that they need to be durable and durable. The first batch of military Ross MarkIs had some problems. For example, the bolt lock often failed to secure the bolt. During military parades, there was even an embarrassing scene where the bolt fell out after the butt of the gun hit the ground. Therefore, by 1905, Ross launched the Mark II.
The following story is very annoying, and Gouzi won’t go into details. During this period, Mark II was revised not just once, but twice from II* to II**, not counting Qiqi. It’s probably not a minor name change. After all, although Ross is a firearms enthusiast, he has no experience in making guns. Not only Ross, but Canada as a whole has no experience. It’s not so easy to change a civilian sporting rifle into a military rifle that is mainly strong and durable. Simple.
The final Mark III is actually very different from the earlier Ross. The barrel is 30.5 inches long, the double-row magazine is changed to a single row, and it can be loaded with the same bridge clip as Enfield. The ammunition capacity is still 5 rounds. The rear sight has also been moved from the collar to the rear of the bolt, making the aiming baseline longer and more accurate. The locking tenon has also been changed from a double-convex tenon to a threaded double-convex tenon, which has stronger locking ability.
This batch of guns has been equipped since 1910. The Canadians used this gun to fight in a war, and then it became a generational pit.
First of all, the Ross rifle uses .303 British bullets like its mother country, and the Ross Mark III has a redesigned ammunition supply ramp specifically for pointed bullets, but the "frugal" Canadians are reluctant to part with pointed bullets during training. Instead, they use old-fashioned round-nose bullets, which always causes glitches when pushing the bullet into the chamber. However, the melon-eating infantrymen don’t know anything about round-nose bullets, ammunition supply slopes, etc., so they feel that this product is not easy to use. . Then when the war came, Ross had even more problems.
Ross’s exposed magazine is just a thin piece of iron. It is very easy to deform after being bumped, causing the bullet to get stuck in the magazine and unable to come out. You have to use a tool to dig it out. This detail problem is entirely due to Canada’s previous It has not been caused by the development of small arms.
But the most serious problem is not the above, because it is a straight-pull rifle, and its rotation opening and closing requires threads and guide grooves to achieve, but the two are very tightly combined, and it usually pokes the target It's fine for paper and hunting, but it won't work if you roll in the mud in World War I. If the mud gets in a little bit, it won't open/close.
Canada’s self-produced .303 bullet uses a high-quality copper-zinc alloy shell and has a certain memory ability. Although it will instantly expand against the chamber when fired, it will shrink slightly after the chamber pressure is reduced, so it is easy to draw. shell. However, most of the Canadians issued to the Canadians during World War I were ordinary .303s produced in Britain. This kind of bullet stuck in the chamber very seriously, and because Ross itself did not have a pre-extraction function, the problem of being unable to open the bolt was made worse. Then the Ross rifle was originally a sporting rifle with a very small chamber gap. I don’t know how to describe the problem of the British bullet sticking to the chamber and causing the bolt to not open.
There is also a problem with the bolt lock of this product that has been present in the Mark I and has not been completely solved in the Mark III. There are reports that soldiers will not lock the bolt when shooting, causing the bolt to fly backward. Just pierce the eye and kill the shooter....
Lieutenant Scriven of the Canadian Expeditionary Force even complained that only five riflemen with Ross can equal the firepower of one shooter. This led to the fact that the happiest thing for Canadian soldiers during World War I was to see the corpses of British soldiers, so that they could pick up a Lee Enfield to use...
Finally, in World War I The notorious Ross rifle in China was withdrawn in 1916, and the Canadian army replaced it with the P14 rifle manufactured by the United States for the British.
Although he has been complained about so much, the accuracy of the Ross rifle is really not bad. As long as it does not roll around in the mud and uses high-quality copper-zinc alloy bullets, it is still a high-precision rifle that surpasses the Mauser.