Rossi R92 sights

[Cornhusker77]

I recently bought a Rossi R92 in .45 colt, and I like everything about it except the sights.
I'm sure the sights are fine for people with younger and better eyes, but these buckhorn sights and the little brass bead are hard for me to see.
Does anybody make a fiber optic front sight for these?
I have seen some people say the peep sights are easier to use?
And I know how we all like pictures.

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

I cant see the sights well on mine if in the shade. I put the scope i had on my Mosin on mine. I had M/L rail that fit it.

 

[Twocanary]

Have rifles with buckhorn sights and tired 66 year old eyes. I kind of resigned myself to using whatever is on the rifle. Different story for a hunting rifle though. I would try the receiver sight and fiber optic front sight front from Steve's Gunz. Have no actual experience with, though. The rear sight would give me an excuse to remove the Rossi's safety too. I have a 357 Rossi cowboy; like it a lot and have about 1000 rounds through.

 

[Alaskamike]

Best thing I ever did with my .357 Rossi 92 was to have it drilled and tapped for a Wiliams receiver sight.

 

[Beck]

I have an older pre BrazTech pre button safety SRC in 357. I loved everything about it except the sights way back when. I put a semi-buckhorn, which made a world of difference. There are quite a few styles of semi-buckhorn. Some aren't worth carrying home. The one I have opens up the sight picture very nicely. I left the front sight as is, but I'm considering doing something about it. It's just a black blade. Even a brass bead would be an improvement.

If I had newer Rossi 92 with a button safety I'd take the safety out and get the peep sight. I've tried to keep my Rossi as traditional "cowboy" as possible, but as my eyes get older I'm going to have to rethink that I'm sure.

I've got fiber optics on my Ruger 10/22 and an older Remington 870. They're great. They really light things up.

 

[Southmountain]

The cheapest but modest improvement would be to get a Marble bullseye peep. Tap out the rear buckhorn, tap in the peep, and you’re good to go. I got one earlier this year from
Midwayusa for $19.99. Elevation wise, at 2nd lowest setting, it is hitting center at 50 yards with the factory front sight on the Rossi R92.

 

[3Crows]

There are these:

https://xssights.com/products/sights/hunting-rifle-sights/rossi/

And Skinner has a bunch including a forward (Scout) rail for all sorts of optics:

http://skinnersights.com/rossi_firearms_23.html

And if you just feel and urge to have a modern cowboy rifle there is this:

https://rangerpointstore.com/rossi92-citadel-levtac-parts/

 

[P89DCSS]

NOE picatiney rail and red dot.

 

[doubleh]

I put a tang peep on mine. Marble's I think. CRS and time ya' know. It helped and then I installed the correct height Lyman globe sight on the front and it helped even more. One caution though, this is not a low light setup.

 

[d'zaster]

My M92 chambered in 357 was absolute junk from the factory. Sent it back to the factory. After 5 months, I got it back hardly touched. What a disappointment. As such I decided to take on the project (bough the Steve Young DVD) and I have slicked it up quite a bit, changed to front fiber optic sight and swapped the funky bolt safety w peep site (removed the stock rear site). It cycles/shoots better but still rather junky.
I am glad to see many good reports about Rossi lever guns. A friend has Braztech 357 and it's a great gun w nice fit & finish. I knew I was taking a chance with the mixed reviews, sure enough I got a lemon. Probably will sell it and get a Henry.

 

[halfmoonclip]

THE answer is a Marbles Tang Sight. Lyman makes a nice one too, but it isn't adjustable for windage.
With the Rossi, it will entail drilling/tapping the tang for one screw; Marbles screw kit will supply that, along with a longer tang screw. I've drilled/tapped a number of my own rifles, but won't do other people's. Stuff happens....
It's fast, accurate, and works for codger's eyes...your eye centers itself in the peep, and then you put the front sight on POI.
The tang sight significantly lengthens the sight radius, and the Marbles kit comes with three apertures. Use a tight one to establish zero, then one of the larger ones for the field. Dim light? Larger aperture, or even use the threaded hole on the sight.
Had a Rossi .22 pump; buddy gave me a 19th century Lyman tang; 16" barrel. Friend calls it 'the gun you can't miss with'. Tang sights are just amazing.
Have a love/hate relationship with my R92; it works well enough, and I can clang an 85 yd tie plate off my hind legs. But it's rough, and the trigger is gritchy. May turn it into a Miroku/Win 92. Which is drilled/tapped for a tang sight.
Moon

 

[Speedo66]

Rossi actually made their own tang sights, I managed to snag one just after they stopped production. It required one hole to be drilled in the tang, it’s adjustable for windage and elevation and folds down when not in use.

My model Rossi, 20" .357, actually came new with a scope mount in the box, and holes drilled and tapped under the rear sight. Currently has a 4x Weaver scout scope on it, works very well for me.

 

[hawg]

I went with a Marbles full buckhorn. I use it as a ghost ring.

 

[Bfh_auto]

Best thing I ever did with my .357 Rossi 92 was to have it drilled and tapped for a Wiliams receiver sight.

I did the same. It's another level of sights.

 

[doubleh]

THE answer is a Marbles Tang Sight. Lyman makes a nice one too, but it isn't adjustable for windage.
With the Rossi, it will entail drilling/tapping the tang for one screw; Marbles screw kit will supply that, along with a longer tang screw. I've drilled/tapped a number of my own rifles, but won't do other people's. Stuff happens....
It's fast, accurate, and works for codger's eyes...your eye centers itself in the peep, and then you put the front sight on POI.
The tang sight significantly lengthens the sight radius, and the Marbles kit comes with three apertures. Use a tight one to establish zero, then one of the larger ones for the field. Dim light? Larger aperture, or even use the threaded hole on the sight.
Had a Rossi .22 pump; buddy gave me a 19th century Lyman tang; 16" barrel. Friend calls it 'the gun you can't miss with'. Tang sights are just amazing.
Have a love/hate relationship with my R92; it works well enough, and I can clang an 85 yd tie plate off my hind legs. But it's rough, and the trigger is gritchy. May turn it into a Miroku/Win 92. Which is drilled/tapped for a tang sight.
Moon

Install the spring kit from Steve'sgunz. Again CRS is messing with me on the source as it's been some time since I did the install on mine. I didn't polish anything because it looked good.. I just installed the kit and it is an entirely different rifle. I also cut some off the magazine tube spring, about 7 inches I believe. The kit is inexpensive and worth every cent IMO.

 

[P89DCSS]

Worst part of Rossi threads is people that have older R92s that needed loving to newer post-2013 Rossis that are much improved. If I had a brand new Rossi I'd leave it as-from-the-factory and shoot a couple hundred rounds first.

 

[Speedo66]

The best improvement I made was changing the ejection spring, it lessened the amount of pressure needed to work the action, and shortened the distance empty cases are flung.

An inexpensive Century C-530 spring, available on line or from your local hardware store, did the trick.

 

[hunt127588]

NOE picatiney rail and red dot.
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What leather butt pad is that? I like it.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

A friend has Braztech 357 and it's a great gun w nice fit & finish. I knew I was taking a chance with the mixed reviews, sure enough I got a lemon. Probably will sell it and get a Henry.

Yep they are a crap shoot. Or used to be. I got a really nice one, wood to metal is not "great", but it's accurate and feeds everything.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

Well, the sights just kind of go with the territory....scopes and red-dots belong in a different territory. Easy to find a fiber (fibre?) optic front sight for it, (everyone makes them) that with a peep rear sight should solve you problems. As long as the peep-dish can be screwed out giving you a ghost-ring, it will work fine in bright light or low light.

I have a Williams peep rear, and fiber optic front sight on my Winchester 94 "Trapper", and it is a really nice, easy to see, fast acquiring sight.

 

[Speedo66]

NOE, the bullet mold people, make a scope base to fit Rossi's. Most round barrel Rossi's are drilled and tapped already under the rear sight.

They have them in silver and black, although at the moment they appear to be out of both.

Here's a link: https://noebulletmolds.com/site/shop/gun-parts/scope-mounts/rossi-model-92-scope-mount-p892-silver/

 

[Driftwood Johnson]

Howdy

I bought this original Winchester Model 1892 back when I started shooting Cowboy Action, about 20 years ago. It left the factory in 1897, but had been refinished, so I got it for an excellent price back then. Sorry, I don't remember the price, but great bargains can sometimes be had buying old guns that have been refinished. Caliber is 44-40, there were no rifles chambered for 45 Colt back then, and of course none chambered for 357 Magnum. It was, and still is, a tack driver. And being well over 100 years old, it did not need any smoothing up, the action is like butter.






In those days we would shoot at normal CAS distances, quite close up, but the range I shot at most often had a big steel bear target they would set out at 100 yards. I had a smith mount a standard Lyman tang mounted folding peep sight and had it sighted in for 100 yards for the bear.






Because the original rear sight interfered with sighting through the peep sight, I had this folding rear sight mounted in the dovetail for the rear sight. So when shooting close up I would fold down the peep and pop this sight up. When shooting at the bear, this sight would be folded down and I would use the peep sight.






This is the sight the smith installed on my '92. In CAS we are not allowed to have a the white triangle showing, so I flipped the blade around so the diamond is hidden. I don't recall now if I had a new blade made, or if I had the original one modified, but you can see I had a couple of square notches cut into the blade, one a bit bigger than the other. That made it easy to see the notch in the rear sight.

https://www.brownells.com/rifle-par...ht-assembly-black-sku149301680-4112-9691.aspx




Regarding rear sights, that particular Model1892 is the only old Winchester I have changed the rear sight out on.

I am 72 now, and I can see the buckhorn and semi buckhorn rear sights on my old rifles just fine.




Winchester Model 1873






Marlin 1894 357 Mag.






Winchester Model 1892






Winchester Model 1892 carbine.






Winchester Model 1894






Winchester Model 1873






Marlin Model 39A. Full Buckhorn. Yup, I use it as a peep sight.






I did not like the rear sight that came on my Uberti replica 1860 Henry, so I substituted this full buckhorn from Track of the Wolf. This rifle gets shot more than any of the others, and I like this sight a lot.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

A rifle to crawl over the ten miles of broken beer bottles for. What a jewel.

 

[hawg]

Worst part of Rossi threads is people that have older R92s that needed loving to newer post-2013 Rossis that are much improved. If I had a brand new Rossi I'd leave it as-from-the-factory and shoot a couple hundred rounds first.

A safety is not an improvement.

 

[dh1633pm]

Put a ghost ring on my Rossi. When new, removed the safety, polished as needed and gave it a Matt finish.