UPDATE: Rossi Ranch Hand Mares Leg

boomer49 said:
"As previously mentioned 3 hours from beginning to end, including watching the video for me to slick up my RH using Steve's video. And I've never taken a '92 apart before. They are ridiculously simply to work on. A set of screwdrivers, a punch and a file or benchgrinder are all you need."

Friggin' show-off ... you can kiss my ass.

I'm happy for you ... that you can disassemble a lever-action rifle down to its component parts ... and machine/grind all the steel tiny bits ... and re-assemble it all correctly again. In three hours. You got confidence and talent and big balls.

But most of us are just Average Joe folks, with a healthy regard about getting-in 'way over our heads ... and then having to send all the pieces in a nice big box to an expensive professional. And feeling really stoopid ... and thinking, "What was I thinking?"

You should be a gunsmith ... make $75 / hour and have bumblers like me accepting two-month wait lists.
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Who pissed in your coffee? I guess you missed the point of my post. I'm not a gunsmith, I am an average joe. Steve's DVD is so easy to follow and these guns are so easy to work on that almost anybody with a couple of spare brain cells can strip their Rossi down, do the modifications and reassemble, its that easy. FOR ME the hardest part was trying to get the barrel band on the forestock lined up when I was reassembling.

For example:
Adjusting the trigger pull requires a slotted screwdriver, a bench grinder and 60 seconds.
Adjusting the feeding port requires a pair of side cutters, a bench grinder and 60 seconds.
Smoothing out the lever action requires a file and 2 minutes.

So if it takes you a couple of minutes to figure out which end of the hammer to use by all means send your gun to a gunsmith. If you know your way around a toolbox buy Steve's video invest a few hours of your time and slick up your Rossi and save yourself a bundle of cash and having your gun hung up for 2 weeks
 
Bench grinder?

Sir,

I apologize for the snarky comment.

I know my limitations, and was annoyed at being reminded (for whatever reason) of my incompetence.

The simple fact that you own something called a bench grinder indicates that you are a bit special and/or handy. Lots of folks don't even have a f**king bench.

If I can hang a picture on a wall without damaging the picture or scarring an innocent/wrong part of the wall or spilling blood, I am having a good day.

You wrote that I should fix it myself and, "... save yourself a bundle of cash and having your gun hung up for 2 weeks."

Two weeks? Very effen funny :)
 
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Looking forward to my Ranch Hand

Hi
Very new to this forum, but found it because of the Mare's Leg. I've ordered one from Gary, and I am hoping it shows up without any of the concerns I've read about here. I've mostly used my guns for ranching purposes (varmints, dispatching injured livestock), getting interested in target shooting now. I've found the advice and discussion here very useful.

Jake
 
Welcome Jake,
Using a "Ranchhand" on the ranch seems appropriate! They are great guns and most of the problems are easy to fix.
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I finally took my ranch hand out for a few shots. It's a 44. Couldn't hit sh$t. Then I just shot it kind of from the hip and hit the target at about 7-10 paces. Good enough for me!!
Ever since I took it out of the box and tried to aim it, I wanted some kind of colapsible stock forr it. I am desgning something for it as we speak. ight take a while but will show and tell when it's done.
 
How's life in Balfour? My Grandparents used to have a place on the lake near the Harrop cable ferry.
You just need to figure out how to hold the gun out in front so you can use the sights.
A bungee sling can help and at some point you will need a taller front sight and lower rear.
 
Range Report

An hour at the range:

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May2 Range Report-3 by sunstruck1, on Flickr

Front sight = green fibre optic
Rear Sight = Peep

25 Yards, From a rest, snowing & raining, 2 degrees celsius AND I was flinching like a little girl because I've got a badly torn rotator cuff and couldn't even use my arm after 50 rounds.

At first I was shooting high and to the left so I adjusted it to shoot bang on at 25 yds. Then I adjusted the front green fibre optic, then I decided to shoot high at 25 yards rather than bang on. This way I should be good from 25 out to a 100 yards.

The gun ran amazingly except that on 2 occasions the hammer failed to stay cocked, it travelled forward with the bolt to the safe position and had to be manually cocked. Anybody else experience this? Otherwise the gun ran beautifully, all rounds ended up in a little pile right at my feet, brass is no longer scraped, loading, ejection and trigger pull are 100%.

With the full stock and fibre optic/peep sight combo this is a fast tracking, accurate, easy to shoot rifle!

NOTE: Rear peep sight is cranked down 1 turn from bottoming out. So this front/rear sight combo works really well. I'll post some close ups of the sights later tonite.
 
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There are a few reasons that may have caused the hammer to come forward with the bolt.

1) You may have the sear engagement point slightly rounded and not sharp and square
after slicking up the action.(Probably not though if it ony happened twice.)

2) There could have been a bit of grit left in this area after doing the tuning work.

3) Some unburnt powder flakes or residue could have gotten into this area whilst
shooting. (Depends on how many rounds you fired before cleaning.)

Give the beasty a good blowing out with compressed air after cleaning it, then
run another 50 rounds through 'er to make sure. If you get another hammer skip again,
you will need to pull 'er apart again and carefully stone the sear engagement point to get it sharp and dead square.
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Merci ...

Mr. Kanaima,

Thanks for that post ... lots of good info there. It seems like the "sighting-in" options are being solved, and many CGN'rs can just listen/read-and-learn.

Quick question ...

You mention using a rear peepsight and I'm guessing that you're referring to the Steve's Gunz rear peepsight that replaces the goofy Rossi "safety" button. Is that correct?

And you actually had to adjust it UP (with the Steve's Gunz fiber-optic front sight) to get your desired 25 metre - 100 metre close-to-zero range?

I recently traded-off my RH, but would have been really happy with a close-in (17 - 25 metre) zero.

I wonder how mine might have worked with the shorter-radius (but maybe prettier and probably more-robust) Skinner peepsight.

It's good to see that somebody has finally got that gun dialled-in :)
 
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SHELL SHUCKER said:
There are a few reasons that may have caused the hammer to come forward with the bolt.

1) You may have the sear engagement point slightly rounded and not sharp and square
after slicking up the action.(Probably not though if it ony happened twice.)

2) There could have been a bit of grit left in this area after doing the tuning work.

3) Some unburnt powder flakes or residue could have gotten into this area whilst
shooting. (Depends on how many rounds you fired before cleaning.)

Give the beasty a good blowing out with compressed air after cleaning it, then
run another 50 rounds through 'er to make sure. If you get another hammer skip again,
you will need to pull 'er apart again and carefully stone the sear engagement point to get it sharp and dead square.
;)
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Piece a cake ... for you guys :):redface:
 
It is Steve's peep sight, I wanted a longer sight radius. When it is bottomed out it is shooting dead on as shown in the second target. If I was using the cut down stock I would have it sighted in for 17-25 yards as well, but with the full length stock and the 1 1/2" groups it's now a hundred yard shooter.

And thanks Shell Shucker, I'll check that out.
 
Kanaima said:
It is Steve's peep sight, I wanted a longer sight radius. When it is bottomed out it is shooting dead on as shown in the second target. If I was using the cut down stock I would have it sighted in for 17-25 yards as well, but with the full length stock and the 1 1/2" groups it's now a hundred yard shooter.

And thanks Shell Shucker, I'll check that out.
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I got a e-mail from Steve's my scout mount is shiped out today!
Think i will let a gunsmith do the action work when I send my Rossi RH/carbin in for drilling and tapping .'
What is the name and number of the gunsmith in Mission BC?
 
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