After putting 50 down the tube then cleaning and flooding the action with WD40 and cleaning that out, things slicked up very well. No FTF in any way shape or form and with that 24" barrel it handles like a dream when you throw it up to your shoulder. Here it is fresh out of the box:
The Rossi shooting high issue has not been solved by the factory so sooner or later I'll get that fixed but it shoots and groups very well. I was very, very surprised at the lack of recoil from this rifle -- I know it's a handgun cartridge and it's the first .357 rifle I've ever owned but my pistols bark pretty good when I shoot them. The first shot, I thought I might have made a mistake with the reloads but they were fine. It's just a nice easy shooter and I'm sure my wife is going to love it when she shoots it. The loading gate spring is pretty tight, might replace springs in it with a spring kit later on.
Here are the target pics with POA (point of aim) marked. In order to save bandwidth and to not have a post that's three pages long I'm just posting the links to photobucket, here ya' go:
Let me know what you think, those groups are totally acceptable to me because I can barely see the targets at 100 yards. I'm sure once I get myself setup with either a tang sight, skinner sight, or ghost ring I can tighten them up a bit.
Going to load some 125 grain XTP's in the next week and see how they do and also going to slug the bore to see what I need to size my cast stuff at. Even going to see how 180 grain WFN shoots out of this thing although I do not think a
1-30" twist will stabilize those. One way to find out.
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