Officially an owner

[scottz]

I went and met a really nice guy this morning and successfully traded for a 92 Interams Rossi SRC, which is the 24" half round/half octagon barrel. The gun looks really nice, seems to function smoothly and the finish is nice. Wood to metal fit is good except for the butt plate, there's a fair amount of hangover on the bottom edge. Nothing that filing and sanding won't fix. The owner said he bought the gun about 10 years ago. And to my surprise, he had the box and manual for it. No time for pics unfortunately, I have to get ready for a trip out of state. I should be able to get to the range next Friday though. Serial number begins with AMO.

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[Ranch Dog]

Very nice!

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[akuser47]

congrats on the find post pics when you can and range report.

[scottz]

I measured the rear dovetail, more precisely I measured the shoulders of the sight sticking out past the edge of the dovetail. .375 on one side and. 377 on the other. I thought the Interarms 92's were larger?

[44-40 Willy]

Don't hear much about the half octagon/half round barrels. What caliber?

[scottz]

.45Colt. I have a Ruger Blackhawk in that caliber as well.

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[dpe.ahoy]

Congrats on finding a nice one, I haven't seen any of the half round half oct. barrels around here. DP

[scottz]

I found time to snap a couple of detail pics. I also found out that the rear sight has a knife edge on it, I actually drew blood just handling the gun. First pic shows the one fault in wood to metal fit. The butt plate is larger than the stock. I like the wood on the gun, just not the dark finish. I read that these Interarms Rossi's had walnut instead of the mystery Amazon hardwood.


On castboolits.com, posted by cajun shooter:
"I have owned two Interarms Rossi rifles. When Interarms imported the rifle they gave Rossi a specification sheet on how they wanted them built. All the Interarms were a very nice deep blue with walnut wood stocks."


1358722342210 by ScottZr, on Flickr


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[akuser47]

It is a mystery wood and finish they use seem to be acidic and rust any medal it is in contact with thus the many oil refinishes done to them to try and stop the metal corrosion happening from this. Your wood look good soo do as you wish but at most I would just add an oil over that finsih to seal it.

[scottz]

I'm using Tim's 1/3 mix. Equal parts beeswax, BLO and turpentine.
www.thegunstockdoctor.com/

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