New Rossi r92

[chuckerbird]

Picked up a new Rossi r92 in 357 magnum.
Got it home, cleaned it and was trying different 357 bullets. It will cycle the 158gr rn at 1.590 coal just fine. Will not cycle the 158gr rnfp unless it is seated to a max of 1.540. Anyone else see or heard of this??

[hp246]

Yes. the 92s, as well as the the 73s and 66s can be picky about OAL.

[MT Gianni]

I believe it is less about oal than about where the bullet nose is impacting the throat to the base length. Some swc's will feed in my gun where a wfn will not at saami length specs.

[AZ Pete]

I must be very fortunate, my rossi 92 feeds .38 spl., 158 SWC nicely and .357 158 SWC's as well. There is a lot of material on the net about smoothing the rossi's action up, the internals can be pretty rough from the factory.

[sparky45]

Steve Young aka Nate Kiowa Jones is one of the better at smoothing out the action on a Rossi 92. I got his video and some parts from Steve and did my own "tune up". Amazing what difference a little smoothing of parts will produce. You can get his video at his website www.stevesgunz.com

[MT Gianni]

The video I got had nothing to do with OAL, IIRC. I believe this is an issue of throat size but a pound cast will show you.

[Ken in Iowa]

Picked up a new Rossi r92 in 357 magnum.
Got it home, cleaned it and was trying different 357 bullets. It will cycle the 158gr rn at 1.590 coal just fine. Will not cycle the 158gr rnfp unless it is seated to a max of 1.540. Anyone else see or heard of this??

Sounds exactly like ours.

Before I started casting, I found that using 38 Special brass and the Hornady swaged 140 gr Cowboy bullet seated long cycled very reliably.

The cartridges were a throwback to the outside lubricated, crimped heel days.

[chuckerbird]

Thanks Ken. Right now it looks like I've got a 38 special lever gun. Gonna try locate some 125 grain 357's just to see if they would cycle.