Boerrancher
02-20-2009, 12:34 PM
As some of you know this weekend is my Birthday, and the wife's is just a few days after mine. We are going out of town for the weekend thanks to a couple of friends, treating us to a mini vacation for our Birthdays. The only thing that stinks about going away for the weekend is I just bought a brand new in the box Rossi Mod 92 pre-safety chambered for the 45LC, and I will have to wait until Monday to shoot it. I already have one nearly like it that I bought nearly 18 years ago, that is a tack driver with cast boolits. I only hope that it shoots as well as my old one. I had been wanting a second mod 92 but didn't want the safety. I was wanting it in a 44-40 but could not pass up a NIB pre safety 45LC. I can always rebarrel the one that shoots the worst to a 44-40 at some point in time.
The shop owner said a lot of people have looked at it over the years but no one wanted the 45LC. He said he could have sold it a hundred times over had it been a 44 mag. Then he proceeded to tell me how hard 45LC ammo was to find, and harder to sell as he had several single action revolvers in the same chambering that he hadn't moved. I just shrugged as he was telling me all of this, and started thinking about the thousand or so pieces of new 45LC brass that I have bagged up waiting to be loaded, not counting the 400 or so that I already have loaded. The shop owner was only asking $450 for the rifle, and I know the new ones with the safety are going for around $600 in this neck of the woods. I looked up from the rifle and told him considering how hard ammo was to get, I would give him the $450 but he ate the sales tax. Some paper work and a phone call later and I walked out with the Rifle.
I saw it a couple weeks ago but didn't have the money for it yet, but figured if it was New with out the safety It had probably been there for a long time, and wouldn't go anywhere. I looked at the price and milled around some more then headed out. Yesterday I called them to ask if they still had it, and ask them to hold it for me as I was interested in it. I went in this morning and looked at it. It just had to follow me home and all the way into the gun safe.
Best wishes from the Boer Ranch,
Joe
The shop owner said a lot of people have looked at it over the years but no one wanted the 45LC. He said he could have sold it a hundred times over had it been a 44 mag. Then he proceeded to tell me how hard 45LC ammo was to find, and harder to sell as he had several single action revolvers in the same chambering that he hadn't moved. I just shrugged as he was telling me all of this, and started thinking about the thousand or so pieces of new 45LC brass that I have bagged up waiting to be loaded, not counting the 400 or so that I already have loaded. The shop owner was only asking $450 for the rifle, and I know the new ones with the safety are going for around $600 in this neck of the woods. I looked up from the rifle and told him considering how hard ammo was to get, I would give him the $450 but he ate the sales tax. Some paper work and a phone call later and I walked out with the Rifle.
I saw it a couple weeks ago but didn't have the money for it yet, but figured if it was New with out the safety It had probably been there for a long time, and wouldn't go anywhere. I looked at the price and milled around some more then headed out. Yesterday I called them to ask if they still had it, and ask them to hold it for me as I was interested in it. I went in this morning and looked at it. It just had to follow me home and all the way into the gun safe.
Best wishes from the Boer Ranch,
Joe