New member, new rifles!
Posted: 19 Jan 2019 07:27
Hello everyone, I became a 92 owner 2 months ago and I'm afraid that I've got Rossi-itis bad......
I was trying to sell a shotgun online and having no luck I was ready to pull the ad, when while at the range, I happened to mention to a friend that I had it for sale. As luck would have it, I was overheard by a gentleman who came over and said that he had a lever action for trade if I'd like.
He told me a little about it, and I said to bring it up to the range and I'll think it over.
When I saw it I kind of fell in love! It was a Brass receiver 24" Octagon barrel with saddle ring in .45 colt.
The wood was a little beat up with a couple of dents and just kind of ugly; but I felt this child needed a home, so I took her in.
Well, I took it apart, inspected it and found the barrel to be pristine and very little signs of wear internally.
In other words it looked old on the outside and brand new inside. This gave me incentive to "pretty her up".
I stripped the wood and put compresses on the dents to raise them back up, put six coats of Formby's tung oil
on it (oooo steel wooled between coats), polished the scratches out of the brass and......WOW! was I glad I made that trade.
It shoots like a dream. Puts 250 gr. pills through the same hole at 25yds. even with my old eyes!; and gets it's share of looks at the range as it sparkles in the sunlight.
I've been so excited that I bought another (also 24 in. octagon in .357) but this time blued and brand new in the box. I got it from a man in St. Augustine who had bought it from Steve's Gunz a few years ago. It was all "slicked up" and ready to go with a new Marble Tang sight, folding ramp sight and new brass muzzle sight. He had never fired it!
I have plans not only to do a tung oil job on the stock, but I'm making plans on getting a .44 carbine in Stainless.
This Rossi fever takes hold and won't let go!
I'm going to try to put pictures of the two "sisters" in this thread; but please forgive me if they don't show up as I don't have great computer skills.
I was trying to sell a shotgun online and having no luck I was ready to pull the ad, when while at the range, I happened to mention to a friend that I had it for sale. As luck would have it, I was overheard by a gentleman who came over and said that he had a lever action for trade if I'd like.
He told me a little about it, and I said to bring it up to the range and I'll think it over.
When I saw it I kind of fell in love! It was a Brass receiver 24" Octagon barrel with saddle ring in .45 colt.
The wood was a little beat up with a couple of dents and just kind of ugly; but I felt this child needed a home, so I took her in.
Well, I took it apart, inspected it and found the barrel to be pristine and very little signs of wear internally.
In other words it looked old on the outside and brand new inside. This gave me incentive to "pretty her up".
I stripped the wood and put compresses on the dents to raise them back up, put six coats of Formby's tung oil
on it (oooo steel wooled between coats), polished the scratches out of the brass and......WOW! was I glad I made that trade.
It shoots like a dream. Puts 250 gr. pills through the same hole at 25yds. even with my old eyes!; and gets it's share of looks at the range as it sparkles in the sunlight.
I've been so excited that I bought another (also 24 in. octagon in .357) but this time blued and brand new in the box. I got it from a man in St. Augustine who had bought it from Steve's Gunz a few years ago. It was all "slicked up" and ready to go with a new Marble Tang sight, folding ramp sight and new brass muzzle sight. He had never fired it!
I have plans not only to do a tung oil job on the stock, but I'm making plans on getting a .44 carbine in Stainless.
This Rossi fever takes hold and won't let go!
I'm going to try to put pictures of the two "sisters" in this thread; but please forgive me if they don't show up as I don't have great computer skills.
