Apparantly hammer mounted firing pins are a weak spot on newer(post interamrs) Rossi revolvers. I agree with whoever posted about just getting your local smith to replace the pin. My Rossi pin was replaced right before I got the gun, and he used a S&W pin, cost $30. Probable costs at least that much in shipping and waiting for a warranty repair, and if you have it fixed local, you can have the smith make sure the pin is right the first time. Bob.
rossi revolvers trash
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shinerjohn
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Me too!
I bought a Rossi 462 SS 357 snub less than 1 year ago. After a couple hundred rounds, the firing pin broke. Sent it in for their fantastic warranty repair. Cost me $68.XX overnight freight on a $269 gun. When I got it back, the firing pin broke after 24 rounds. I called and they paid the freight. It was gone another 6-8 weeks. I've fired 88 rounds in it since. My gunsmith looked at it and said the hammer nose was hitting on the bottom of the firing pin channel. He looked at it before the last breakage and it was hitting on the top of the channel. I'll do one of 2 things. I'll either trade it for a Ruger or S&W or I'll shoot the crap out of it until it breaks again. When it breaks again, I'll ask for a brand new gun. This is pretty ridiculous. This was to be my truck gun. Can you imagine needing it, reaching for it, pointing and pulling the trigger and it just goes click? This has been an extremely frustrating experience for me.
I bought a Rossi 462 SS 357 snub less than 1 year ago. After a couple hundred rounds, the firing pin broke. Sent it in for their fantastic warranty repair. Cost me $68.XX overnight freight on a $269 gun. When I got it back, the firing pin broke after 24 rounds. I called and they paid the freight. It was gone another 6-8 weeks. I've fired 88 rounds in it since. My gunsmith looked at it and said the hammer nose was hitting on the bottom of the firing pin channel. He looked at it before the last breakage and it was hitting on the top of the channel. I'll do one of 2 things. I'll either trade it for a Ruger or S&W or I'll shoot the crap out of it until it breaks again. When it breaks again, I'll ask for a brand new gun. This is pretty ridiculous. This was to be my truck gun. Can you imagine needing it, reaching for it, pointing and pulling the trigger and it just goes click? This has been an extremely frustrating experience for me.
luvsasmith
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To the OP...
How much do you want for it?
How much do you want for it?
Those firing pins are pinned in and are supposed to be able to move up and down to follow the channel into the firing pin hole. If the pin is improperly made, the hammer is improperly made, or the channel is not cut right, the pin can strike the top or bottom of the channel and break.
Jim
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shinerjohn
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Evidently, that is exactly what is happening. My gunsmith is a 3rd generation gunsmith and started learning from his granddad as a boy. He opened up the top of the channel a wee bit for the previous pin, but it broke anyway. For safety's sake, he isn't comfortable enlarging the channel further. So I reckon it will stay in the box until I find something I want to trade for. He said it might fire 1,000 rounds before breaking again. For many people, that would be acceptable, but I do fire my guns. I have no confidence in it, and the cost of ammo these days prohibits me from shooting it enough to rebuild that confidence. It's a shame too. I'm beginning to wonder if guns with a lifetime warranty have it because they will need it!
charles1911
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How Mich does an extra firing pin for a Rossi 357 costs? And do u need specail tools to replace it or do u have to send it in to have it replaced
How Mich does an extra firing pin for a Rossi 357 costs? And do u need specail tools to replace it or do u have to send it in to have it replaced
please don't bump a 4 year old thread bashing rossi to ask how much it cost to obtain and how to replace a firing pin.
Go here, make a new thread and ask your question there.
http://thefiringline.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=8
Go here, make a new thread and ask your question there.
http://thefiringline.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=8
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