82 bullets, and the new rossi is dead!!

[mainiac]

Having never owned a lever action like this, i dont know what to think. Since picking up this thing in .357, ive really enjoyed myself, until today when i levered her open,and she spilled half her guts on the ground!!!! Seems like i broke the ejector,and it and its spring flew out of the gun. Question #1, did i buy another foreign made piece of crap,or is this just a fluke? Question#2, where does a country boy from maine find parts for this thing,(no gunsmiths around)?Question#3, how hard is it to take this thing apart, and will i get a migraine for my troubles?? just wish the old win 92 wasnt so expensive, im thinking I made a mistake buying this thing!

[mdatlanta]

Mainiac,

Try getting in touch with Steve Young. He's a Rossi M-92 specialist and a good guy. He'll steer you straight about whatever might be wrong with your rifle.
Here's the link to his website: http://www.stevesgunz.com/

Mike

[Four Fingers of Death]

Thats a bummer, they are normally hell for stout as Teddy R would have said. You probably got one with a bit of faulty metal. I've sprayed about a thousand or so through my second hand one and it lapped it up. I'm sure it will be ok inthe long run. The only problem I have ever heard of with them is from guys who tried to hotrod the older ones. Good luck with it.

[biggome]

Hmmm, since you bought it used you may not have been aware that you MUST be wearing Cowboy boots, a Cowboy hat and preferably "chewing a plug" on horseback while operating this particular rifle, it is a true replica. Shooting at Indians also prolongs the life and accuracy of it as well as preventing missed shots (as has been demonstrated in countless docudramas in the 60's).

Seriously, I think you have had a freak failure and will be rewarded by you efforts to repair it.

If you prove them to be junk I will no longer make mine my first choice of arms in the event I plan on doing a "drive by" or anything else I need a repeater for.

Good luck with the repair, keep us posted.

Paul

[jballs918]

is the rossi made by tuarus

[Buckshot]

is the rossi made by tuarus

................They are now. Don't know when Mainiac's was made. I think Taurus
bought Rossi a couple years back.

Maniac, I think it's just a fluke. I know the cowboy action guys shoot theirs a bunch, and shoot'em fast! The only real complaint I've ever heard about them was that they were very stiff when new. A buddy got one for his wife for SASS shoots and asked me to polish it a bit here and there. When I took it apart I found little bits of steel floating around, like it hadn't been de-burred after machining.

As I don't do action jobs he took it to his cowboy gunsmith to be gone over. No issues with it at all.

....................Buckshot

[Old Ironsights]

Mainiac,

Try getting in touch with Steve Young. He's a Rossi M-92 specialist and a good guy. He'll steer you straight about whatever might be wrong with your rifle.
Here's the link to his website: http://www.stevesgunz.com/

Mike

I second this. Steve is "Fixing" my Rossi before I ever touch it.

They are fine guns as is, but Steve makes them into somthing totally other - for a reasonable price.

[Scrounger]

I see they are not drilled and tapped for a receiver sight. I would think the same receiver sight that fits the 1894 Winchester should work OK on the Rossi if you have someone drill and tap it.

[Bman]

I had one of the older Rossi '92s in .45 colt. Nothing in the action ever gave me a bit of trouble. That gun would even reliably feed empty brass and pretty quick too. The troubles I had were with the the front sight being mounted to the front barrel band, Lee 300grfngc, 24 gr H110 and a mag tube that would instantly migrate moving the front sight. That and the incredibly snappy recoil combined with that semi crescent butt just plain hurt.

I did have to replace some broken barrel band screws (my fault I guess due to heavy loads). I forget how hard it was to tear down but I know I did it at least once to shorten the ejector spring and deburr the ejector itself. If you are reasonably mechanically inclined it shouldn't be too big of a job to replace it yourself.

B

[mainiac]

this gun is a interarms model,, bought new about mid 90,s really nice wood and very nice blueing. Only problem with the gun (besides the ejector breaking!) with the 358156 @ 1600 f.p.s., the gun shoots 3 inches high,with the elevator all the way down. Have to dig out the 3-cornered file to fix that problem! It came with a box of pmc factory swc,s that had 17 fired in the box. Guy said that was all that was ever fired in it. Hopefully,i just had a bad ejector,and the new one will not break!

[azrednek]

I have three Rossi levers from the Puma era. I took the first one, a 38/357 short carbine to a gunsmith and inquired about an action job. Following the smith's recomendation of shooting and levering at least 500 preferably a thousand rds through it before considering an action job was the best advice I got. The action has smoothed out remarkably through use. It gets a little onery with 357's and is outright stubborn with SWC's prefering round nose slugs. With 38's of any shape or size they go through like a red-hot hot knife through butter.

[McLintock]

Sounds like you have one with a two piece ejector, the originals had one piece ones. The threads can strip out and the thing separates and does what you're experiencing. I have a Armi San Marco made '92 that did the same thing. I fixed it by making a new stem (the part that extends back from the head part), with bigger threads, drilling out the existing head and putting them together with Locktite Red. It's been going good for close to ten years now. I tried a new ejector of the same variety and it separated also, couldn't find an original, so fixed it like the above. There's a good site at marauder.homestead.com that has good directions on taking the Rossi '92 down and working on it; take a look at it, could help you a lot. Generally they're great guns and very reliable.
McLintock

[azrednek]

There's a good site at marauder.homestead.com that has good directions on taking the Rossi '92 down and working on it; take a look at it, could help you a lot. Generally they're great guns and very reliable.
McLintock

THANKS FOR THAT LINK!! Sure wish I would have seen it before tearing one down.