Sistema1927
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Yep. Steve slicked up my .45 Colt 1892 Rossi. I couldn't be happier.
Rossi model 92 SRC= are they any good?
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I do some lever action work myself but they are not my favorite, I see you have a passion for it.
I only repair or do leather wrap & stuff.
I will run it past- she who can not be questioned- & see what she says.
I like your site by the way.
Steveo_1704
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Oh its not my site, just a site I found when research 357 leverguns.. I wish I was that cool.
Carl N. Brown
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Puma is the name used by American importers on 1892 leveractions.
I have a .38/.357 Puma made by Rossi for Legacy Sports International before LSI switched to an Italian maker for their "Pumas".
Mine started out rough internally, but has smoothed up over the years.
I believe today the Rossi is called the R92
I have a .38/.357 Puma made by Rossi for Legacy Sports International before LSI switched to an Italian maker for their "Pumas".
Mine started out rough internally, but has smoothed up over the years.
I believe today the Rossi is called the R92
GBExpat
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WHEW! Good to hear. Don't want such a great opportunity to slip thru your fingers.
Now ... Enjoy!
Wish I had one of those to go along with my two Marlin .44 1894Ss.
TN Outlaw
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You got a screaming deal on that rifle my friend!
General opinion is they are good rifles, some think they are a little rough at 1st but break in to become decent feeling actions. Most people, I think, slick up the action and loading gate.
I bought a new one 4-5 years ago. (R92 357mag) I never noticed my action to be rough or stiff. My loading gate was kinda sharp and the forearm wood past the barrel band was a different thickness from one side vs the other. The wood is a little bland too but is fine with me. What really surprised me is that it shoots fabulously. Way better than I can shoot it. That and so far it's cycled 38spl without a hitch. It's a handy wood bumming rifle. I am tickled with mine and if i could go back i would give the money for it again no doubt.
Enjoy yours!
General opinion is they are good rifles, some think they are a little rough at 1st but break in to become decent feeling actions. Most people, I think, slick up the action and loading gate.
I bought a new one 4-5 years ago. (R92 357mag) I never noticed my action to be rough or stiff. My loading gate was kinda sharp and the forearm wood past the barrel band was a different thickness from one side vs the other. The wood is a little bland too but is fine with me. What really surprised me is that it shoots fabulously. Way better than I can shoot it. That and so far it's cycled 38spl without a hitch. It's a handy wood bumming rifle. I am tickled with mine and if i could go back i would give the money for it again no doubt.
Enjoy yours!
kBob
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The Pumas way back had a big brass medallion on the left side of the action with the image of a Puma and the name on them. Folks kept calling the Rossi 92 clone Puma when they dropped the medallion.
Back then I hated that medallion. It was one of the reasons I did not buy one of the guns. The other was I was just not that into "cowboy guns" at that time.
Would not mind having one now at all.
So how not into cowboy guns was kBob in the 1980's? Marion Hammer walked up to me at a Tallahassee gun show and asked me to go look at a young guy's rifle. He needed money for his young struggling family and she thought I might help by buying the rifle. Well two and a half hours from home and not having heaps of cash I was being very tight with my money. He had a nice Winchester 92. He wanted fairly little for it even for that time. Not knowing diddle about cowboy stuff I took one looked at that ".44 W.C.F." marking and though "what the heck is that? some weird 1880's tranisition cartridge I will never find in a million years" I handed the rifle back. He did sell it that day but not to me. On the drive home we stopped at a convienence store south of Monticello along Stonewall Jackson Highway (since renamed Jimmy Carter Highway, go figure, the road Ted Turner's son lives on) and it being hunting season they had a shelf of ammo on sale. My stomache did a bit of a flip when I saw on sale a bunch of ammo marked ".44-40" and under that in parenthesis "(.44 W.C.F.)" Fortunately I could not think of a way for my pardner to kick me all the way back to Gainesville.
I put some effort into studying "cowboy stuff" after that experience. You can bet I have never run across a nice Winchester 92 in that condition anywhere close to that price since.
-kBob
Back then I hated that medallion. It was one of the reasons I did not buy one of the guns. The other was I was just not that into "cowboy guns" at that time.
Would not mind having one now at all.
So how not into cowboy guns was kBob in the 1980's? Marion Hammer walked up to me at a Tallahassee gun show and asked me to go look at a young guy's rifle. He needed money for his young struggling family and she thought I might help by buying the rifle. Well two and a half hours from home and not having heaps of cash I was being very tight with my money. He had a nice Winchester 92. He wanted fairly little for it even for that time. Not knowing diddle about cowboy stuff I took one looked at that ".44 W.C.F." marking and though "what the heck is that? some weird 1880's tranisition cartridge I will never find in a million years" I handed the rifle back. He did sell it that day but not to me. On the drive home we stopped at a convienence store south of Monticello along Stonewall Jackson Highway (since renamed Jimmy Carter Highway, go figure, the road Ted Turner's son lives on) and it being hunting season they had a shelf of ammo on sale. My stomache did a bit of a flip when I saw on sale a bunch of ammo marked ".44-40" and under that in parenthesis "(.44 W.C.F.)" Fortunately I could not think of a way for my pardner to kick me all the way back to Gainesville.
I put some effort into studying "cowboy stuff" after that experience. You can bet I have never run across a nice Winchester 92 in that condition anywhere close to that price since.
-kBob
bannockburn
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Great buy on a really decent lever action! Picked up my Rossi M92 used but like new in the box in .45 with the 16" barrel and large loop lever. At the time Legacy Sports International was the importer. Wood to metal fit is excellent as is the polishing and bluing on all of the metal parts. Action was already smoothed up when I got it and I just love how quick and easy it is to get it on target! Always wanted a lever action and finally got one that uses the same cartridge as three of my single action revolvers do!
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