Rossi Rifleman

Hello all. I purchased a Rossi Rio Grande yesterday. It has not been shot at this point. I tried loading a few rounds and found I could not get the cartridges in. I quickly discovered if the lever was slightly opened it would take the cartridges. When I attempted to cycle the shells through the gun the lever jammed open. Any advise?

Yeti575 wrote:Any advise?

Greetings and welcome to the forum! I did a quick search using load lever open. You might start reading through these topics.

The RG is relatively easy to work on, are you familiar with the disassembly of a Marlin 336 (what this rifle is a clone of)?

Decided to come back here as I recall a member having a similar issue. He found a bunch of gunk interfering with the carrier. Have you disassembled the rifle and thoroughly cleaned it yet?

DisassemblyReassembly of the RG is as simple as changing your socks........like kindergarten.
Doing the same with the 92........ graduate school.

pricedo wrote:DisassemblyReassembly of the RG is as simple as changing your socks........like kindergarten.
Doing the same with the 92........ graduate school.

And sometimes a first aid kit too!

Thank you for all the replies. I have disassembled the gun and have found a lot of burring in the slot that the ejector spring slides along. I am assuming that is what jammed the rifle. I will check for burrs that could be preventing the cartridges from entering the tube. On a side note it appears the plug in the magazine is sticking. I am starting to believe I bought a rifle kit.

Yeti575 wrote:Thank you for all the replies. I have disassembled the gun and have found a lot of burring in the slot that the ejector spring slides along. I am assuming that is what jammed the rifle. I will check for burrs that could be preventing the cartridges from entering the tube. On a side note it appears the plug in the magazine is sticking. I am starting to believe I bought a rifle kit.

It is really not that bad, I own three RGs and really enjoy them. A couple hours invested in the rifle makes a friend for life.

A thorough flushing of the mag tube with CNC Brakcleen then a liberal dose of Hoppes gun oil in the tube worked for me. My 410 did the exact same thing out of the box. Then I found this site and realized that all that shipping gunk had to be in that mag tube also. I had neglected to clean that area on unboxing. Once I flushed it and oiled it I coated 5 410 shells with gun oil and loaded them....let them sit in there for an hour then started working the action. I did this over and over till it started feeding clean.

Thank you for the additional information, now anyone have any tips on getting the hammer spring back in place?

Yeti575 wrote:Thank you for the additional information, now anyone have any tips on getting the hammer spring back in place?

Here are a number of videos on you tube. It makes it much easier watching them than trying to explain in writing. I actually downloaded and keep the series on assembly and disassembly which is dead on for the Rio Grande.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... +Pt1&sm=12