Rossi Rifleman

There is a R92 Rossi 45Colt headed my way. I would like to stay old school and have the same load for it and my Blackhawk convertible. Of course the Ruger only load works great in the Ruger. Wondering if any have had problems with it in the Rossi? TIA

The Rossi will eat them like M&Ms

I don't think you can load something that is safe for the Ruger that is too much for the R92.

The limit with the 92 is the brass, not the action. The action will take full house 44s and 454s and hold up fine. The 45c Ruger Blackhawk will not.

So what Gas' said

Reese-Mo wrote:The limit with the 92 is the brass, not the action. The action will take full house 44s and 454s and hold up fine. The 45c Ruger Blackhawk will not.

So what Gas' said

Yep!

Make smoke,

The action will take .454 but the rest of the 92 construction may have a problem with recoil pulling the gun apart.
The 454 and I think the .480 versions of the 92 used a magazine tube and receiver that was threaded instead of being the slip fit used on all the other calibers.

We have had several owners reported issues of recoil pulling the mag tube loose with the Rossi where the assembly was sloppy with .357 and/or .44 Mag. That has been pretty rare but not unknown. Usually when the owner corrects out of spec parts that problem goes away but with the 454 and 480 the recoil and inertial forces required threading the joint between the mag tube and the receiver.

Bah.... Just sissy shoulders causin' that!

Reese-Mo wrote:Bah.... Just sissy shoulders causin' that!

Well in one or two cases it was attributed to either an extra long mag cap screw, lack of a mag cap screw seat in the barrel and/or either a shallow or sloppy band screw cut and/or cut in the wrong place not lining up with the bolt that allowed inertia to pull the mag forward as the rifle recoiled backward. Once the problems were cleaned up, screw shortened to engage but not warp or tension the mag tube, cleaned up band screw cut in the mag tube or rotated the mag tube and cut a fresh one, the problems went away.

You MIGHT be correct that if the gun was shouldered tight the recoil forces would be reacted with less movement impulse. On the other hand the gun OUGHT to operate under any necessary condition including holding the thing one handed a-la Ranch Hand. In a similar vein, not every failure to feed with a Glock is because somebody limp wristed it although that is probably the most common issue.

It was a joke!

No Big, figured it was a joke but we did get a couple threads about issues maybe 5 or 7 years ago.

I might have to start a thread about recoil vs. sissy shoulders, limp wrists and practical jokers though...