Rossi Lever Action .45 colt, need advice!!??

[SamlautRanger]

Have a Rossi Lever Action in .45 colt that I am looking at buying at a great price. The stock, wood, and action feel is really nice.

Does anyone have experience with a Rossi Lever Rifle in .45 colt??

How is the feeding and extracting reliability with the .45 ?

Overall accuracy and reliability?

How is the recoil (comparable to say a Marlin 30-30)?


Thanks for any advice you may have.

God Bless.

 

[redneck2]

There was a thread here some time back. Supposedly these are as well made as most any lever rifle, and the 92 action is as strong or stronger than most others. This same rifle is made in .454 and they're in the 60,000 psi range IIRC

Dunno what your price is. Here, new ones are $500+. I just found a like new used one in 45 LC for $295 and snapped it up.

I suspect the recoil is quite dependent on the load. At sixgunner.com they load these pretty heavy. There were several articles. Since they're only about the size and weight of a .22, I suspect the heavier loads let you know when you light one off.

 

[iamkris]

Definitely do a search...there are many threads on Rossi lever guns. Here's my response to one posted earlier this year

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I have one of the Rossi Win92-clones that I shoot in cowboy action shooting (under the alias Thaddeus Muckenfuss). It is a stainless model, 24" octagonal barrel, crescent buttplate, .45 Colt. In a phrase...I love it.

Rossi's are a good value in my opinion. I paid $275 lightly used. I originally bought it used because it was cheap and I was already spending a lot to get into the sport. I figured that I'd trade it later for a Marlin or Winchester. I started shooting it and found it well made and VERY accurate. It has NEVER misfed. In fact, I have no intention of getting rid of it.

I did make some changes however. An afternoon of elbow grease, steel wool and stripper got rid of the awful black finish they use on their wood (I think it is a Brazilian hardwood of some kind). I put some walnut stain and an oil finish and got a lovely dark golden hue with a lot of figure. I also swapped out the sights to Marbles full buckhorn rear and Game Getter front blade (total of about $25 from Brownells). The Rossi sights are a little on the cheap side. I also had Steve Young (Rossi gunsmith) remove the stupid bolt safety and fill it with a plug for $40. Slapped a Bunkhouse spring kit ($15) in the rifle and she is GOOD TO GO! That and a few thousand rounds through her have smoothed the action up to be like butter. Even with all that extra, I have only about $360 in the rifle.

Fast, smooth, super accurate. 3 seasons of cowboy shooting on her (over 1000 rounds) and never a hiccup...no failures to feed, fire or eject. No broken parts. BTW, Rossi makes the Win92 clones for Navy Arms and (I believe) EMF also. You can pay a little bit more for those and get some of the modifications I did built in.

Here she is with a few of her friends

 

[DonP]

I like mine

I picked one up new at a local gun show for $325 so do some price checking.

Mine is Blue with a 20 inch barrel. Basically a SRC with out the saddle ring.

Shoots very smoothly, once you put a 100 or so rounds through it to smooth it up. I'm not a big believer in sending a gun out for work until you've shot it for a while to loosen it up.

I added a large ring lever myself, just for the fun of it. Everybody over 40 years old spots it at the range and wants to try it themselves. It shoots very nicely and after around 500 round has only had one extraction problem that I can recall.

A good value for the money and has the added advantage of being able to shoot at any indoor pistol range. The recoil is neligible and much softer than a 30-30, IMHO.

 

[gaven]

Bought one about 8 years ago and never regretted it . I have put about 5000
rounds though it with no problems , accuracy is like shooting a .22 rifle .
The recoil depends on what you feed it, I have some light loads that are like
shooting a .22 and i have another that i load a .451 dia. 300 gr. soft point
that about 10 rounds is all you would want to shoot that day.
Have fun with it