UPDATE: Rossi Ranch Hand Mares Leg

driller212 said:
no you are thinking about the puma/chiappa mares leg rifles. they are very pricey! this is a different brand, these are made by taurus I believe and should be much more affordable than the puma and chiappa. I am on the waitlist for one at the moment and cannot stop thinking about them so I decided to put up a thread :D
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The Chiappas are priced at around $1300.

The Chiappa Takedown model can be disassembled without tools in seconds into 3 parts:

1) the octagonal barrel and for-end

2) the receiver and "stump"

3) the screw in magazine tube

A guy at Shooters Choice in Waterloo this spring was shooting a Chiappa Takedown:ar15: in .44 Mag with a pistol scope mounted on the diagonal barrel using a Picatinny rail and Warne QD removable mounts. It had a thick nylon fabric boot for a golf putter fitted over the stump as a recoil pad. It all fit in an ordinary business sized brief case when it was disassembled.

Said he was taking it hunting this fall.

Kinda neat !:)
 
torontogungal said:
The Chiappas are priced at around $1300.

The Chiappa Takedown model can be disassembled without tools in seconds into 3 parts:

1) the octagonal barrel and for-end

2) the receiver and "stump"

3) the screw in magazine tube

A guy at Shooters Choice in Waterloo this spring was shooting a Chiappa Takedown:ar15: in .44 Mag with a pistol scope mounted on the diagonal barrel using a Picatinny rail and Warne QD removable mounts. It had a thick nylon fabric boot for a golf putter fitted over the stump as a recoil pad. It all fit in an ordinary business sized brief case when it was disassembled.

Said he was taking it hunting this fall.

Kinda neat !:)
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thats cool! I just dont have the need to make something small smaller... I need it to be functioning for split second situations. but there are no doubt numerous uses for a take down rifle!

Just need better sights so POA=POI and it will be a sick rifle!
 
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My dad had a 30-30 trapper that he hung from a dog-snap on his shell belt through the saddle ring. It hung well and he could fire it from that position pretty good to. thats if a guy doesn't want a holster
 
Yup ...

Hi Driller,

Yup, they just arrived today. I got a barrel-mounted peep / ghost-ring from Skinner's plus (from Steve's Gunz) their lowest available flat-top rear sight plus their one-size-fits-all a-bit-higher front green-tube sight.

The rear sight appears to be a bit lower and the front sight appears to be a bit higher.

I also received Steve's tune-up DVD with the two must-have replacement parts ... a softer spring and a metal (as opposed to plastic) cartridge pusher.

My firearm was at-first a bit wonky about chambering rounds (jamming badly on every third-or-fourth cartridge) but Gary agreed to take-back the rifle and either fix or replace it. I told him that I'd ordered the DVD kit (that might fix the situation) and he was fine with me returning it with the gun. I said I'd be fine with paying any extra gunsmithing fees. They could do a number on the gun while it was in pieces anyways. On my ticket ...

The rifle now loads successfully about 80% of the time (an improvement) so now I'm not sure what to do.

Boomer
 
boomer49 said:
Hi Driller,

Yup, they just arrived today. I got a barrel-mounted peep / ghost-ring from Skinner's plus (from Steve's Gunz) their lowest available flat-top rear sight plus their one-size-fits-all a-bit-higher front green-tube sight.

The rear sight appears to be a bit lower and the front sight appears to be a bit higher.

I also received Steve's tune-up DVD with the two must-have replacement parts ... a softer spring and a metal (as opposed to plastic) cartridge pusher.

My firearm was at-first a bit wonky about chambering rounds (jamming badly on every third-or-fourth cartridge) but Gary agreed to take-back the rifle and either fix or replace it. I told him that I'd ordered the DVD kit (that might fix the situation) and he was fine with me returning it with the gun. I said I'd be fine with paying any extra gunsmithing fees. They could do a number on the gun while it was in pieces anyways. On my ticket ...

The rifle now loads successfully about 80% of the time (an improvement) so now I'm not sure what to do.

Boomer
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hmm mine feeds just fine, that is odd. let us all know how both sets of sights work at the range :)
 
Will do ...

Hi Driller,

I'll certainly share my results. Right now I haven't switched the sights because I don't have a proper punch and (maybe needed) small triangular file. I was going to ask Wanstalls to do that while they were correcting the feeding issues with Steve's Rossi Tune-up Kit. But, as I said, the "feeding issue" seems to be gradually correcting itself.

Maybe I'll just go purchase the necessary tools and try it myself. Nobody wants to be without this gun during the sweet month of October! :)
 
Perfect case ...

I know that I mentioned this briefly in an earlier post about sight options, but it's worth repeating. I'd spent hours online looking for a proper case for my mare's leg ... and then discovered one "hiding in plain sight" on the website for Skinner's Sights.

There are two excellent choices (both quality cordura nylon with decent padding and sealed with buckles) in the "scabbards" section. The cases were originally intended for take-down rifles ... "Old West" style I presume.

I prefer the clean simple lines of the less expensive $49 model. A suggestion though ... order the 26" model, even if it means waiting a bit (they're made to order). The 24" version can be a bit tight. My $49 model was actually a half-inch too short, but Andy (a great guy and the owner) immediately sent another (the more-deluxe folding model) and the gun fits with about 1 mm to spare. The deluxe model is more complicated than it needs to be ... you have to unclick four buckles to retrieve your firearm.
 
Its on its way. Tracking #0123abcd.
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no no, I think he meant that a rossi has escaped and is terrorizing the townsfolk and now it's a 'wanted' gun and there's a reward if you bring it in...
 
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