Rossi Big Loop - I hate it!!
- Thread starter Claven2
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I'm really good at doing the spin ####, but it only works with an empty mag. The gun can't feed when spin cocking. Plus it's not exactly safe practice.
BigUglyMan
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Movie cowboy bull####. any other explanation is just deflecting.
LOL. You will NEVER see a cut scene where he spin-cocks and THEN fires (because rounds cannot feed when spin cocking, they fall out of the gun or stovepipe). He always fires, spin-cocks, then they cut to another angle, then he fires. Because it's IMPOSSIBLE. Hollywood.
I don't know what gun John Wayne was shooting, but it works superbly with my miroku-Winchester 1892. Never a stovepipe or round falling out.
You mean like this one I re-stocked in walnut last year?
That is just what I want, how much do you want?
You mean like this one I re-stocked in walnut last year?
Hayya Cliffie........... she's mighty purrtie.........where'd'ja git the stocks?
Precision gun works. Don't believe the ad type, at best, they are 80% inlet. Lots of work to get them to fit well. Better end product than Boyds BY FAR though. The boyd's stuff ends up rather "gappy" as they over-inlet at the factory.
Well well, looky here. A whole thread devoted to fellas with delicate little girlie hands! ;-P
Kidding, just kidding! I see where you're coming from.
My issue is the opposite though. I've got great big mammoth mits and the regular "Winchester" loops barely work for me bare handed, let alone with gloves on. On my 88, I can jam all 4 fingers into the loop, but when I go to cycle, because the fingers can't move, it twists my wrist at a painful angle. I have to cycle it with my pinky hanging out. With gloves on, I can't get the three fingers in, so I actually need to reach under the loop and grab it from the bottom to cycle it. I'm sure it's more noticeable on the 88 than it would be on a Rossi though, due to the action cycling almost twice as far for the longer .308 round.
Kidding, just kidding! I see where you're coming from.
My issue is the opposite though. I've got great big mammoth mits and the regular "Winchester" loops barely work for me bare handed, let alone with gloves on. On my 88, I can jam all 4 fingers into the loop, but when I go to cycle, because the fingers can't move, it twists my wrist at a painful angle. I have to cycle it with my pinky hanging out. With gloves on, I can't get the three fingers in, so I actually need to reach under the loop and grab it from the bottom to cycle it. I'm sure it's more noticeable on the 88 than it would be on a Rossi though, due to the action cycling almost twice as far for the longer .308 round.
Years ago in welding class, we used to lay items like yours on a bed of thick copper before welding them. This was done mostly to fill holes in sheet metal, but also applications like this where the two pieces need to be precisely joined and straight. The idea of course is that melted steel would not adhere to the copper.
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Big loop levers ain't my bag either. For my .45 Colt Ranch Hand, I took a section from the loop itself and then bent it to shape, followed by TIG welding with the lever held in a soft-jaw vice. This midsize lever fills the bill for me just fine.
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