Re: Greetings Members!
Posted: 06 Jan 2016 17:09
Hello all,
Al here from N. Idaho, a transplant from south and west of here. Grew up farming in the Sac. Delta. Started hunting and shooting at age 10 on my dads ranch, began reloading at 17 and have continued to date.
Moved to N. Idaho Jan. of 05. Love the area and plan on staying until the next life. Currently driving a big rig for employment, in order to support my sporting interests.
This is a great site and I really have found a wealth of info on the Rossi 92, mine is a 45 colt blue steel 20" round barrel.
After reading many posts on how to smooth up the action and clean up the sharp edges I under took the project, completing the job yesterday. These are the things I did. Smooth all internal parts,remove the knife edges from the loading gate, replace the plastic follower with one made from a 348 win case w/ a 45 acp slipped inside, remove the ugly dark whatever it is stain from the wood and replace it w/ Johnson's paste wax.
Smooth the edges of the fore arm and open up the channel that the mag tube slides into in the forearm, polish the inside of the mag tube. I also changed the color of the metal from the original bluing to a cast iron grey,by using a can of high temp engine block paint. I know I'm cheap, but look on the + side no problems handling the metal as the paint protects it better than the bluing, and touch up on scratches is easy.
Good shooting to all.
Al1460
Al here from N. Idaho, a transplant from south and west of here. Grew up farming in the Sac. Delta. Started hunting and shooting at age 10 on my dads ranch, began reloading at 17 and have continued to date.
Moved to N. Idaho Jan. of 05. Love the area and plan on staying until the next life. Currently driving a big rig for employment, in order to support my sporting interests.
This is a great site and I really have found a wealth of info on the Rossi 92, mine is a 45 colt blue steel 20" round barrel.
After reading many posts on how to smooth up the action and clean up the sharp edges I under took the project, completing the job yesterday. These are the things I did. Smooth all internal parts,remove the knife edges from the loading gate, replace the plastic follower with one made from a 348 win case w/ a 45 acp slipped inside, remove the ugly dark whatever it is stain from the wood and replace it w/ Johnson's paste wax.
Smooth the edges of the fore arm and open up the channel that the mag tube slides into in the forearm, polish the inside of the mag tube. I also changed the color of the metal from the original bluing to a cast iron grey,by using a can of high temp engine block paint. I know I'm cheap, but look on the + side no problems handling the metal as the paint protects it better than the bluing, and touch up on scratches is easy.
Good shooting to all.
Al1460