Only the 1910 version with interrupted thread locking lugs can be assembled so it does not lock up. The 1905 with square lugs cannot.
While I would not want to have to maintain one in combat, I think I could keep it straight in the gun room at home. From what I have read, you have to first twist the bolt head out of its normal position, and then push hard to get it in the receiver, then fail to notice that it does not turn as you close the bolt.
Rifle magazine once had a account; the author saw an elderly French Canadian gentleman on the range banging away with a Ross with a telescopic sight. Results were good.
The writer asked "What did you do in the army?"
"I train ze sniper."
The other side of the Ross story is the occasional intrepid Pukka Sahib getting gored, stomped, or eaten because he bought the .280 on claims that its high velocity made it a sure killer of about anything.
The .280 Halger was the German version, in Mauser rifles. Herr Gerlich claimed even greater velocity. One account says it was exaggerated, one said it was overloads in the safety margin of the Magnum Mauser.