Rossi 92 in stainless puma early 80s by the number

The Rossi Model R92, a lightweight carbine for Cowboy Action, hunting, or plinking! Includes Rossi manufactured Interarms, Navy Arms, and Puma trade names.
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Re: Rossi 92 in stainless puma early 80s by the number

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Hi GasGuzzler
No one else has put their hand up and called it polished steel +1 .
GasGuzzler wrote:You can tell by looking at the finish near the pins and where the contours change. I have "de-blued" and polished a lot of parts.
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When done properly (better than the example shown) it looks like chrome. The Puma medallion would be a great reason to skip trying the process on this particular gun. The polishing will fade sharp edges and details if taken too far.
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Hi Kiwi Hunter,
I had one with a worn finish and had it cerakoted,

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Wow Mad Trapper, your gear is just beautiful. Those pictures would be worth framing.
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Coote wrote:Wow Mad Trapper, your gear is just beautiful. Those pictures would be worth framing.
Thank you Brother.
I usually make my own gear.
Think i made the saddlebags about 5 years back.
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Saw a pic on the web of a set of original civil war saddlebags, i started drawing a pattern on paper, trying to match it up with the original bags, got as close as i could to the pic, then transferred the drawing to heavy card stock paper, cut it out, then applied it to some leather i had, sewed it by hand with heavy weight linen thread, waxed with bees wax.

Every time i take a long trip from home, i take the bags and carbine.
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One bag holds a 50 round box of ammo, rifle cleaning kit, first aid kit,compass, fishing kit.
Other bag has a water filter, 1 lb of jerky, instant coffee, camp knife, fire starting kit with fire steel, matches and lighter.
Bedroll holds 2 emergency sleeping bags, 6x8 piece of canvas and a 8x10 bushcraft tarp.
A good friend gave me the canteen, he said it came from the Vietnam war.
I put a leather cover over it, laced it up and added a leather strip for a carrying strap.
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I think it is great that you have gear that is functional and beautiful. And I'm impressed with how much useful stuff you have in that kit.

I am quite a do-it-yourselfer, but I have often been inclined to go for simple solutions making use of whatever I already have... or whatever is cheapest and quickest. My gear isn't generally 'heirloom quality'.

Here is a photo showing the type of bag I often use for carrying a bit of gear.... and hopefully for carrying meat and/or fur home after a hunt. I used to use nothing more than a sack with something like a walnut in the bottom corners so that my rope strap wouldn't slip off. The green bag was made by a friend who is a sailmaker. It is a great meat-pack but, like the synthetic sack, it can be a bit noisy when travelling through scrub. About 13 years ago I made a similar pack from soft polarfleece. This fabric is tough and very quiet, and I'm still using it.

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Here is a picture showing the bag and one of my functional knife rigs. The sheath is made from polythene water pipe which I heated in the oven and moulded to shape around a dummy wooden knife. Although it isn't an attractive sheath, it is very safe and can be easily washed. The rope 'belt' doesn't have a buckle. Instead a cord loop is passed over a Celtic button knot. The loop has a Prusik knot that can slide along the main rope for adjustment.

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I haven't been bow hunting for a while, but I still have most of the gear that I made. The broadheads are cut from sheet stainless steel. The bow is made from a local tree called Olearia paniculata. The arrow shafts are bracken fern stalks and the feathers came from Canada geese. The string is synthetic heavy duty sewing thread.

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I used to trap our local Australian brushtailed possums, so I made a shoulder bag for carrying my snares and lure etc. Sometimes I'd also take a rifle like this old Browning semi-auto which has a suppressor on it. The shoulder bag is below the pig, but it isn't doesn't look like a bag in the picture.

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And in case someone is wondering what our possums look like, here is a photo. I set two pole snares and caught two possums on the same pole.

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I've changed the subject of this thread a bit. Sorry about that. Don't be shy about telling me if I could be doing things better.
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All excellent bags, well made.
Great trapping also.
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[quote="Mad Trapper"]Hi Kiwi Hunter,
I had one with a worn finish and had it cerakoted,

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Yes the cerakot finish looks good what I've seen, also parkerized for ruff conditions would work well on any rifle that's lost it's blueing.
The leather work looks great.
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I've just changed the red dot of because of a condition called astigmatism.
Someone may be interested in the link, I found by photographing the dot it will tell you it's round or not.

Don't want to hijack the post.
So hears the new setup on my stainless puma in 357.
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Thank you Kiwi Hunter.
I like that Scout Rifle,
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