sorry... just saw this.
Rossi USA didn't deny it... after sending an email with a pic of the brass, they contacted me and said "send it in"... gave me a pre-paid shipping label.
The problem was the wait time. They told me they were waiting for Rossi Brasil to send them a barrel. As time went by, and no barrel, I contacted them again, and a woman emailed me and told me she would personally keep track of my order. She told me that they had to wait 90 days (IIRC) before they could offer a replacement. At that milestone, she said they could offer me a 20" blued version for my 16" stainless one.
After a few weeks, they finally shipped that one to my FFL, and I tried it out. It bulged brass, as well.
I replied back to the woman (Tammy?) saying that the replacement also bulged brass, and I got no response at all.
It might take something like a class action lawsuit for them to "admit" publicly that there is an issue, but that's not a road I would want to take.
If you goober Rossi bulged brass, you will find a BUNCH of stories about it.... so it is not an isolated incident kind of thing.
It's a little disappointing to me, because I've always been a huge supporter of "the little guy" in firearms. I've championed Taurus firearms because of my great experiences with them, and I wanted to do the same with the Rossi lever guns.... I just can't do it, based on my three rifle experiences... a little over $2100 worth of not great experiences... I've still got the .45 Colt, but will likely move it along at the first opportunity... if I can find someone that just wants to shoot factory ammo, or cowboy stuff, I'll sell it to them... at a large loss, I'm sure.
I guess I'm weird, I like the buckhorn sight.
Hace 3 Rossie's, no problems. #1 is a 45 colt, I've shot it very little, #2 is a 44-40 also shot very little, but a real hoot to shoot, #3 is a 454 C, what a deer slayer, handles 45 colt to full power 454's with no problems. but I found that anything over about 1200 fps puts too big a hole in a deer.
BD
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I Am Descended From Men Who Would Not Be Ruled
Fiat Justitia, Ruat Caelum
There is enough fat in the federal government that if you rendered it you could wash the world
Ronald Reagan.
JONP:
kicks lik a 45 colt, which is a Ruger only load for the 45 colt. when I shot with a full house HP. it blew the back side out of the deer. Most of the shots in my area are 50 yards or less. no need to make a hole the size of a basketball to stop a WT deer.
BD
I also like to eat them, not blow them up. For a few years I have used the Lee 300-RF at 1600 fps. I did some alloy testing and 1.5-1.5-97 WD barely mushroomed at 5 yards and I assume it quits mushrooming pretty quick after that as it loses speed. It leaves about a 1" hole and a 2" bruise around the hole.
Last year I used that bullet out of nearly pure lead with no GC in a muzzle loader sabot at 1600-1700 fps with 80 gr triple 7. Never again! I shot a doe at about 15 yards in the ribs and it almost ruined the front half of the deer. The entry hole was about as big as a softball, bruising on both shoulders and both backstraps and the entire ribcage was bruised in about a 16" circle like a large pizza.
So if you want a little more velocity for better trajectory harden up your alloy a bit to save some meat. I have had great luck hitting running deer with the slower 45 Colt compared to the 2000 fps 357 because it has the same lead as a shotgun.
I have only one Rossi 92 chambered in 454c. I have only shot one nice blacktail deer with it using a Sierra 300gr at about 1600 fps. It put a thumb size hole in the back of one shoulder and out just behind the far shoulder. Might have been a lb. or so of bloodshot meat around the entry hole but that was it.
I then bought the Lee 300 gr mold and am shooting it at 1950 fps but haven't shot anything with that boolit. No problems with the brass bulging and I assume the pressure is well above 44 mag pressure.
I have two Legacy arms made by Rossi in 480 Ruger. Standard length and a Carbine. accurate fun guns to shoot and hunt with.
Merry Christmas to the Rossi Posse!
Only a fool would attempt it, and God help me I am that fool.
And merry Christmas to you, too! Wishing all the best to you all.....
[QUOTE=Four-Sixty;5497411] ...Gate is stiff. It is a bit of work to load cartridges, but can largely be overcome with technique...
You can remove the gate, it's a flat one-piece item (gate and spring are one piece). If you file the edges of the spring near the middle
it lightens the pressure. Don't need to remove much. While it's out file the inside edges of the hole. Mine would nick boolits,
almost wouldn't load & almost trapped my finger! Much better now.
I replaced the ejector spring with a Horror Freight item, spring kit cost about $5, you get several.
http://www.harborfreight.com/200-pie...set-67562.html
It's the 7/32 x 1-1/2 you want. Makes action easier & doesn't toss empties into the next county.
Of course you can polish all the mating surfaces while they're out.
Try rossi-rifleman.com, lots of tips there.
Oh yeah, 92/44 bought a few months ago, no bulging of brass.
Needed an impact driver to remove front barrel band screw.
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BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |