.454 Anyone ?
Posted: 07 Jul 2022 16:16
No, it's not mine, but a friend traded for one today.
A 20 inch stainless R92 in .454 Casull, it came with a Steve's bolt peep.
He traded a bare bones AR-15 for it, he said he had around $550 in the AR.
He took it out and shot it with .45 Colt loads, had to raise the peep up so much it was barely threaded in.
I brought over my bin of front sights so he could find a lower one
Curt got a Henry in .45 Colt a few months ago so he's been loading for that.
He says he's probably going to sell the Henry .45 now that he has the Rossi.
He heard somewhere that .45 Colt dies will work for loading.454.
He'll have to get some .454 brass to load some but I imagine he'll shoot .45 Colt most of the time.
Whoever had this 92 before him took off the rear leaf sight and did a good job blending in a slot blank.
The two holes either side of the dovetail were also filled in, you can see where they were but barely.
No other holes for the rail on the barrel like my R92 has.
Maybe it had them but they were filled in nicely ?
The magazine tube on the .454 looks fat, almost fatter than the barrel.
This .454 must not be too old as it has both the loading gate and a slot in the tube.
Didn't Rossi quit making these a few years ago, or did they start again recently ?
A 20 inch stainless R92 in .454 Casull, it came with a Steve's bolt peep.
He traded a bare bones AR-15 for it, he said he had around $550 in the AR.
He took it out and shot it with .45 Colt loads, had to raise the peep up so much it was barely threaded in.
I brought over my bin of front sights so he could find a lower one
Curt got a Henry in .45 Colt a few months ago so he's been loading for that.
He says he's probably going to sell the Henry .45 now that he has the Rossi.
He heard somewhere that .45 Colt dies will work for loading.454.
He'll have to get some .454 brass to load some but I imagine he'll shoot .45 Colt most of the time.
Whoever had this 92 before him took off the rear leaf sight and did a good job blending in a slot blank.
The two holes either side of the dovetail were also filled in, you can see where they were but barely.
No other holes for the rail on the barrel like my R92 has.
Maybe it had them but they were filled in nicely ?
The magazine tube on the .454 looks fat, almost fatter than the barrel.
This .454 must not be too old as it has both the loading gate and a slot in the tube.
Didn't Rossi quit making these a few years ago, or did they start again recently ?