Rossi Model R92 Question

Only real issue I've got so far is the 125 gr RNFP .38's I just made up are apparently too short, and don't feed well. Also, they aren't very accurate out of the rifle, I guess due to the long jump to the rifling?
 
Mine would only feed 357 if the lever was worked very briskly, very....

It also had the sights way way of. Thing the putting the wrong front sight on...
 
my rossi was ordered about 4 months ago, feeds anything 38 and 357, has been 100% outta the box, i have the stainless 20 inch, if i could go backk i would have gotten the 16 inch

my thoughts on the 20 inch was more velocity right? wrong, i guess the propellant runs out before the barrel does and those last four inches rob your bullet of FPS, plus the 16 would be a little more portable

but either way you wont regret it, mine shoots a little to the right, other than that i love it, super light and fantstic finish, super fun no-nonsense gun

you may appreciate a peep sight over the bullhorns, they take a little to get used to
 
Nine or ten of them over the years from 1980 on, all pre safety Interarms and EMF (pre mid 2006), except one early LSI, sold it before the safety solution was widely known, otherwise nice gun. Not a problem with a one of them without tinkering...despite the supposed rep of early ones being "rough" as mentioned. About a third of them were a little stiff out if the box, solved with aforementioned many leverings (not counted as tinkering but instead "familiarization"), some dry some with grease. Great guns--or at least mine (and a friend's similar array) have been. All of mine 20" saddle ring carbines except one trapper and one 24" octagonal. It's true some are OAL sensitive as in magnums vs specials--which I've heard has lessened per the above post--which tinkering can help. I don't CAS and have tended to shoot mostly mags (.357, .44) out if these anyway, so that hasn't been an issue. Light, handy and in my case pretty accuraate "within their range."

My first was a .44-40, a tack driver out to 100 after which fell like a rock - boom, thousand one, thousand thwap :) Loved that gun and enjoyed that it was the only one out of all the Rossis shooting an "original old timey" round, admittedly not black powder but a modern charge and bullet. 100-125's all I ask of any of these or their ilk anyway--iron sights 'n all-- though the right ,44 mag or .357 will reach out beyond still with some authority, as will a decent .44-40 (so didn't mean to cast aspersions there!).
 
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I haven't fired my hunting load out of my Rossi yet. A 310 grain cast flat nose with a full charge of H110. I imagine that will put a hurtin' on a critter.
 
i love the difference of shooting 38 puff loads to 357 hunting loads, goes from a 22 noise and recoil to a 12ga, that steel plate puts a hurt on you with some hard loads
 
I lucked onto a HS6 load of 6.5 grains/125 grain RNFP in 357 cases that does 840 fps from my old 4" Colt, and 1160 from the 16" Rossi. It shoots perfectly to the Colt's fixed sights and doesn't leave the '38 ring' in my magnums.

...and since I re-contoured the Rossi's cartridge lifter, the load feeds quite nicely in the little carbine.
 
thanks, ive had a pound of hs-6 sitting here for close to a year, i always use it for heavy 9mm which i rarely ever shoot, i will give your load a try, the H110 is way too powerful for fun target shooting, andthe hp38 is a liitlle too soft
 
That HS6 load is based in one in my old copy of Metallic Cartridge Reloading, which lists 7.0 of the powder with a 158 grain SWC, in magnum cases, as giving around 1100 fps. I've used that load for years and it is a nice all-around load that shoots well, doesn't lead in good barrels and is a pleasure to shoot.

I originally started well below the 6.5 grain load and I called Hodgdon's about downloading HS6 with the 125 RNFP. Hodgdon's will tell you don't publish lead bullet data for HS6, which essentially means they have't tested the powder--with lead bullets--to the extent they test their published loads. Summarized, the response I got was 'If you go too low, you might stick a bullet, But if you're getting the results you want, drive on'.

At any rate, the 92's I've owned and shot all seemed to like a RNFP bullet.
 
I fired the Lee 125 grain RNFP with 5 grains of 231. It shot great, I was knocking 6x6 and 2x4 blocks off the posts at 50 yards off hand with no issue.
 
Thanks for the replies!

I will keep my eye out for one of these in the future. But, I would really like to get my hands on a Marlin 1894 in .357 before I made a decision. I know people said that the newer 1894's from Marlin leave little to be desired, but I also read that they are going to address some of the issues from the last batch and the next batch will be coming along in the next few months. So, I will see what I see.

I don't need a gun like this.. this is more of a fun gun that I can take to the range and that will remind me of my Dad and all those westerns we used to watch years ago. It would also be like my "grown-up" version of my trusty old Red Rider BB gun I had as a kid (still have it too, lol). So, I'll keep doing some research and hopefully get a chance to handle some of these guns.
 
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