Just bought an old stock Rossi Puma with 24" oct barrel in 357, all blued, looks good except for stock, and buttplate fit. The toe of buttplate overhangs the stock by 3/32". The wood is a very light colour mahogany type, with a very thick coat of dull brown stain **** on it. I at first thought of stripping it, then I decided to just try some tung oil I had on it, the oil loosened up the stain and alot of it came off, it now looks suprisingly like walnut.I turned out a new brass mag follower to replace the yellow plastic one and also a brass plug for the safety, you may ask why brass?, i donno, I just have this thing for brass. took the buttplate to the grinder. and have a used marbles type tang sight on the way. How heavy a bullet will the 1-30 twist stabilise? I don`t cast anything heavier than 160 right now, but might like to try 170?