HisDivineShadow
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So... I was expecting a NIB 1982 Rossi Puma in .44 mag... Well it's NIB and and as I specified otherwise.
However upon opening the box I immediatly notice that it had rust, even light pitting where the wood for the forestock meets the barrel, it also seems to have a full buckhorn sight, given comments on levergun forums I expected some bent sheetmetal thing instead:
Just how long did this thing lie in it's box anyway for this to happen? I'm not sure if I should send it back or not, since there are no other Rossis in Finland to be had, beyond the few that make it in somehow. Yeah, Rossis are pretty rare in Finland, no dealers around here I only found one in a finnish gunshop by accident. If I was america-side I would exchange it at once, if Rossi had a local dealer I would do it anyway. Now I am not so sure, maybe I can just get them to send me a few boxes of ammo to make up for it and then fix up the gun as much as I can. On the plus side I think the trigger is pretty great, the loading gate is easy to use, lever is a bit stuff though.
Another thing I noticed about it that I did not expect was the lack of a manual safety, this thing has been hated on for years, and here I am with a gun without it, which I think indicates an age higher than I previously thought, just when did Rossi start adding the safety anyway?
Now here's what I see when I open up the action:
I'm not sure how much of this is rust and how much is the yellowish sticky stuff the gun seems to be coated in.
Moving on to the stocks:
Inside of forestock, cracked from front to end:
Buttstock:
Here's a photo of it with it's older little brother, a Winchester 9422:
So yeah... I dunno, I wasn't expecting the bestest rifle in the world, but I didn't expect it to suffer rust problems out of the box either, or that the wood was gonna be that bad, looks like it'd barely do for kindling.
Right now the gun has been disassembled and is lying in a container of eds red, soaking up the goddness.
So pros:
-Good trigger
-No lawyer safety
-Better sight than expected
Cons:
-Rust on barrel & barrel bands
-Really bad wood, forestock atleast.
-Rust looking things on bolt, might have been something else though.
Questions:
When did Rossi start adding the safety, how old must my gun be to be a pre-safety gun? Does this put me out of the date range for possible overbore issues? Has Rossi maybe stopped using the safety as of late and I actually got a newer gun, not an older one?
However upon opening the box I immediatly notice that it had rust, even light pitting where the wood for the forestock meets the barrel, it also seems to have a full buckhorn sight, given comments on levergun forums I expected some bent sheetmetal thing instead:
Just how long did this thing lie in it's box anyway for this to happen? I'm not sure if I should send it back or not, since there are no other Rossis in Finland to be had, beyond the few that make it in somehow. Yeah, Rossis are pretty rare in Finland, no dealers around here I only found one in a finnish gunshop by accident. If I was america-side I would exchange it at once, if Rossi had a local dealer I would do it anyway. Now I am not so sure, maybe I can just get them to send me a few boxes of ammo to make up for it and then fix up the gun as much as I can. On the plus side I think the trigger is pretty great, the loading gate is easy to use, lever is a bit stuff though.
Another thing I noticed about it that I did not expect was the lack of a manual safety, this thing has been hated on for years, and here I am with a gun without it, which I think indicates an age higher than I previously thought, just when did Rossi start adding the safety anyway?
Now here's what I see when I open up the action:
I'm not sure how much of this is rust and how much is the yellowish sticky stuff the gun seems to be coated in.
Moving on to the stocks:
Inside of forestock, cracked from front to end:
Buttstock:
Here's a photo of it with it's older little brother, a Winchester 9422:
So yeah... I dunno, I wasn't expecting the bestest rifle in the world, but I didn't expect it to suffer rust problems out of the box either, or that the wood was gonna be that bad, looks like it'd barely do for kindling.
Right now the gun has been disassembled and is lying in a container of eds red, soaking up the goddness.
So pros:
-Good trigger
-No lawyer safety
-Better sight than expected
Cons:
-Rust on barrel & barrel bands
-Really bad wood, forestock atleast.
-Rust looking things on bolt, might have been something else though.
Questions:
When did Rossi start adding the safety, how old must my gun be to be a pre-safety gun? Does this put me out of the date range for possible overbore issues? Has Rossi maybe stopped using the safety as of late and I actually got a newer gun, not an older one?
