My Rossi 92 .357 Review

I took them both to the range today.

I was pretty happy with the .45. I was using a powder coated cast bullet at standard pressure. There's 10 shots there.

Then I tried the same distance, 50 yards with the .357 and my group is under an inch with 5 shots. Not bad for open sights!

Both sights could use a slight adjustment, but this is good enough. I don't want to mess with it anymore.

I'm thinking I can do much better with the .45. It still has to break in some and I need to tweak the load to find what it likes best.

 
I also have the Rossi 92 16 inch, or "trapper" model as some models like this are referred to. It is a great gun and had ate everything I've fed it, both 38 and 357. I even tried to slow cycle it to see how slow I would have to go to get a jam and it still cycled fine. I love how compact and fast handling it is.

I really want to get another one now. I went with the blued, as the stainless was hard to get. I waited a month for them to come back in stock (budsgunshop) but since I had to have it NOW, I just went with the blued. I also went with the regular loop since I didn't like the look of the large loop, a little too big. The smaller one is perfectly comfortable for me.
 
I had several rossi 92s over the years.
You get whatcha pay for and the rossis were cheap clunkers.
Of the lot I kept a 20" pre braztech carbine in 454 casull with none of the lawyered up safties and humped the rest for cash to buy other guns including a beautiful chiappa 92 in 44 mag.
The rossis are the pigs ear to chiappas silk purse.
The chiappas are much better guns in regards to both looks and smooth operation.
 
I would hope the Chiappa's are better looking and smoother cycling, they cost twice as much. I have a 94 Winchester and a Rossi 92. The Winchester is very pretty and almost seems like it would cycle itself its so smooth. The Rossi might not be at the same level of fit and finish but is well built. The Rossi doesn't cycle as smoothly either but it does cycle reliably, at least mine does.
 
I had a Chiappa 92 44. It was beautiful. As nice a wood as you could wish for. Too bad that it was a wall hanger and not a gun.

The tube mag would back away from the receiver under recoil jamming it on about the 3rd round. I took it back to Cabela's. The Italians would not send them parts so it had to go back to the factory in Italy. It came back 6 months later with the exact same problem. Cabela's reluctantly gave me store credit.

Chiappa is dead to me now.
 
I've been on the fence on which .357 to buy, and in a trip to Grice's/Clearfield, PA to lay away my Christmas present, that my wife will pick up, I bought a Henry .357 in steel. The gun just felt right, aimed very naturally.

For my Christmas present, I laid away a CZ 455 in .22LR, with a "Mannlicher" stock.
 
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