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Description
Mr. Wood compares the Canadian designed Ross rifle, which was long, cumbersome and 5-shot bolt action, to the much more reliable 10-shot British Lee Enfield rifle. He describes how Canadians scavenged British rifles from dead soldiers.
Transcription
When we started out, Sam Hughes, I guess you’ve read about him or heard about him. Well, he was the Minister of Defence at the time so he produced all the rifles. In other words, he made the rifles for us. That was the Ross rifle, I guess you’ve heard of that. The Ross rifle is the most beautiful gun. That’s how it was made in Canada, you see. It was a very tall rifle, it wasn’t high and by the time you got your bayonet in there, boy, you could hardly reach it yourself, you know. And the Lee Enfield, we used to throw the Ross away. Every Englishman that got killed, we used to throw our gun down and pick up his. Different gun all together. Ten shots.