I picked up a Rossi-Puma 16" .44 mag 92 copy about a month ago. My mini-review would say:
-front site is too short, and was put on way over to one side at the factory. I can't move it with a hammer and a punch, am going to have to pay to replace or at least center it. Right now, it shoots about 18" high and 10-12" to the right at 100m, if I have the brass bead centered at the bottom of the buckhorn rear sight.
-there is no 'extra safety' on mine, despite what Kilo Charlie said. I know some models do have it, but it's definitely not a necessity for me. The hammer can be manually dropped to a sort of half-#### notch on a loaded chamber, much like a 1911, and has to be recocked manually prior to firing so to me that's damned good and safe.
-fit and finish wise, the wood is a little cheap looking/finished. But the bluing on the receiver and barrel is very very nice. Other than the front site being crooked, the rest of the metal fit and finish is very nice.
-it cycles hollow point 240's 100%, great tight lockup, definitely a solid gun.
-full house .44 mag isn't bad to shoot except it's not a bench friendly gun - just the nature of the design, but after 45 rounds on a front rest one day doing load testing I was yelping a bit on the last few. Standing or even elbows on the bench is much more comfortable.
-I loaded some 180's down to .44 special speed and you can hardly feel it in the shoulder at all, very very soft recoil.
-I haven't got it to group very well, but then a) my eyes aren't the greatest and b) I don't have that many rounds out of it (200ish) so don't take that as a definitive accuracy report, not by any means.
It's my first lever gun and I would buy another Puma. At $500-550 it doesn't break the bank. I'd probably go to a 20"....the 16" is fun, nice handling, compact, but I wouldn't point it at a game animal until I got the sights sorted out. I think the longer sight radius of the 20" would likely sort that problem out.
