Rossi M92
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Saw 2 blue Rossi 454s with 20" barrels in the past 3 years.
One was on the Frontier Firearms website and the other was on the old Doc Rowland website (now gone) from NB and like a fool I missed the both of them because I tarried too long.
Haven't seen one for a couple of years.
I have never seen a stainless Rossi 454 offered in Canada. They are a rare bird indeed.
Dorian Gray
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I think Camp Cook has one. If memory serves me right he put some really cool laminate stocks on his and it looks totally badass. Other than his, i only know of one other guy with one and it's the 16" version. I wanted the 20" version and looked at practicly every gun dealers website in Canada without finding one. I'd pretty much given up hope when one day i drove to a gun shop about an hour away because i had nothing better to do that day and voila! Brand new blued model sitting on the shelf. Guy gave it to me tax included and i walked out of there happier than a pig in ####. Finding ammo for it is a bit of a ##### but it's a great gun in a really cool caliber.
The 454's 16 inchers used to come in and I always just figured I'd get one eventually but then for some reason they stopped bringing them in?
I was even haggling on a stainless one with a fellow for a bit and he wanted about what they cost new so I figured I'd get one on the next round but they haven't been imported since......
I think Camp Cook has one. If memory serves me right he put some really cool laminate stocks on his and it looks totally badass. Other than his, i only know of one other guy with one and it's the 16" version. I wanted the 20" version and looked at practicly every gun dealers website in Canada without finding one. I'd pretty much given up hope when one day i drove to a gun shop about an hour away because i had nothing better to do that day and voila! Brand new blued model sitting on the shelf. Guy gave it to me tax included and i walked out of there happier than a pig in ####. Finding ammo for it is a bit of a ##### but it's a great gun in a really cool caliber.
If you don't reload The Bullet Barn has a 335 grain hard cast lead offering (loaded in Starline cases) that according to a friend who has a Rossi 92 in 454 cycles really well.
The Rossi 92s are getting very popular in the USA and are sold almost before they hit the racks.
As usual the US market gets first dibs and Canada gets the left-overs if there are any.
The Rossi 92s and Rio Grande leverguns fill the marketing niche (cheap utility guns for the people, "volksguns" if you will) one filled by Winchester and Marlin. Marlin quality went to the dogs when Remington bought the company from the Kenna family and Winchester just offers ultra expensive specialty guns made by Miroku of Japan (over $1100 for a model 94 in 30-30 !!).
Dorian Gray
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
They sure do homes. I shot a whole mess of partridge with 45 LC's last year. It was fun but you definatly have to make sure you hit them in the head. Otherwise, well it ain't pretty. I don't think i'll be doing that again anytime soon.
Chuckbuster
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Well! I'm glad I didn't dilly dally when I saw the 20 inch .454 a few years ago. It was on sale for a danged good price and I couldn't resist. I dare say, you may have lost the gun to me! Try not to hate me.
I think if Ryan and crew put them out for consumption, they'd disappear like hot cakes too. It's a fun round to shoot. The one downside is that brass is quite steep compared to other pistol cartridge brass. As a result, I typically shoot .45 Colts through mine.
not cool to use another companies name in a sponsored forum..........
