New wood for a Rossi 92

P

Polinese

New member
So after several months of searching I finally found a 20 inch stainless 357 Rossi 1892. So far I love it, def a lil rough inside but I like having to work on a gun a bit.

Anyways the mystery hardwood on there doesn't seem too nice and at the rear of the handguard the wood between the magazine and barrel is so thin its cracking apart (is it supposed to be that way?)

I saw boyds has some walnut furniture for the Rossi's does anyone know if it's at least a nice usable piece of walnut, and or a step up from whatever comes on these guns?
 
Thanks for the suggestion. I knew the rossi was a copy but wasn't sure if parts furniture etc would interchange.
 
Will do, might be a while now since I went to buy new gloves from the cop shop today... and left with my gloves... and a Sig 1911 haha.
 
Will do, might be a while now since I went to buy new gloves from the cop shop today... and left with my gloves... and a Sig 1911 haha.
Click to expand...

Wood isn't that important when what you have works. I've been wanting to get new wood for my Norinco 97 for about four years now.:D
 
Agreed the wood on there is definitely serviceable. That one area where its thinned out and cracking kinda bothered me but Seems to be working just fine so far.

Just couldn't let that stainless sig go though... always wanted one and finally at a point in my life that I can afford to snag something like that.
 
.


I don't believe the partition between the barrel inletting and the magazine tube inletting in the forend wood is cracking - if it's like the others I've owned, it simply got partially machined away during the mag tube inlet boring process.

If you look at the naked rifle (less forend wood), notice how close the rear half of the magazine tube is to the bbl underside - why there's not much room for wood back there.


IMHO, there's nothing to fret about - since forends are there to serve as an anchor for the fwd hand & to keep it off a hot bbl. As long as the FE's front/rear ends are securely anchored w/o slop, they're generally good to go. :)




.
 
This is considered to be "the" or at least one of the top sources www.precisiongunstocks.com (aka Precision Gun Works) has Rossi-specific wood, nice walnut. It is enough different from the Win, they say, IIRC in the inletting (probably refering to the buttstock/tang area mostly), to warrant a specific application. Wins can be made to work...with more work.

These are left bare wood, cut to 95%--my take on it--leaving final fitting/inletting and finishing to you/local smithing. No such thing as a turn key/"drop in," if someone tries to sell you such. Again you may luck out with the 1% disprovingn in which case kudos! A friend bought a gun from someone who'd gone the Precision route - gorgeous. I've got a half dozen Rossis I'd ideally like to get Precision stocks for, though all of mine are serviceable being earlier models before they seemed to cheapen some of the cuts, especially the front of the forend. I hope to actually get at least one done.
 
Thanks for the link Gak! Doesn't look like it'd be a huge investment to upgrade the wood. Just bought that sig 1911, and have a stainless Hi Power on layaway... but wood upgrades are def on my to do list!
 
I put several coats of tru oil right over the factory finish on my Rossi 92. Looks much better. Did not do anything to the stock first. Just rubbed the oil into it.
 
Here's the wood on my Rossi. It's relatively new, being made right about the end of 2010. I'm happy with the fit/finish on the wood. Nothing to write home about, but I've certainly seen worse.
Rossi92woodCustom_zpsb0c3f86d.jpg
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top