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Posted: 4/8/2016 1:13:10 PM EDT
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Well, I'm sure many of you have heard me complain that I'm not really made of money. I don't know how half of you afford half of the stuff you do. Anyways.... This gun is an attempt to curb my 5.56 shooting. Or slow it down to a degree. I'll bring it with when we go so I spend some time on a cheap gun after shooting my AR's. I know 5.56 isn't crazy expensive, but you know, it costs money. LOL.
There's probably not a much cheaper gun to shoot. Eh? My kids have taken over the 10/22, which is fine by me. And they don't really like shooting this gun. My father in law bought it for my son about 10 years ago for Christmas. I actually think it's kind of a fun gun to shoot. But I had to add that slip on buttpad because it's a youth model and the stock is pretty short. Anybody else have a single shot they enjoy shooting? Do you try to wring accuracy out of it? I doubt this one is overly accurate. But I may try to see if I can get some decent groups out of it. But it's mainly just for fun and give me a reason to not shoot as much 5.56 as I normally would. It's a Rossi .22 / .410 combo single shot. Leupold VX-II 3x9 with Butler Creek flip up caps. I know, the scope is kind of overkill for what it is, but it's what I have. You have to switch out the barrel if you want to shoot .410, of course. I don't think these are even made any more. I'm not real sure about that though. 
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This is one of the things that I like about the shooting sports . Some guys get all wound up in buying the best of everything and some can take a fairly modest gun and just take pleasure in shooting it as is just for the heck of it.
Some of the single shots can be fairly accurate . Try some standard velocity ammo and you might be surprised . Another thing to look at is the trigger . Some of the single shots are a bit rough but the triggers are dead simple as all they do is release the hammer so cleaning them up is not hard. do some searching for instructions . If it were me I might attempt to build a full sized butt stock . I think there would be stocks available but DIY is always cheap and fun . Sounds like fun |
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Ha, some of my earliest shooting? A broke as heck pre teen. I shot my grand fathers daisy BB gun with a few bb's I found in the floor board cracks in the attic. I made my own target backstop to catch my precious bb's. When they got lost I made projectiles out of straight pins, tissue and thread. As ridiculous as all that sounds I had loads of fun with my meager equipment.
It doesn't have to be high brow to be fun. Another fun gun that takes lots of fiddling is the old Krag I bought. It came with about 7 ooold casings holding unknown loads and cast bullets. I got into casting for it myself. Nothing fast, nothing fancy, just solving a problem to go shooting. I'm hankering for a .32 or .36 caliber muzzle loader akin to the old TC .45 Cherokee I had. If it was in .32 I would have kept it. They don't make them like that now it seems and not of the quality of traditional guns like they did in the 80's. The new muzzle loaders are plasticky and basically a cheap rifle to meet the state game requirements to hunt another season/tag. I can't say I like them for a muzzle loader. I could spend an afternoon at the range with a pound of powder and box of lead round balls. |
| I grew up shooting my Crossman 2100. Man I had a lot of shots through that thing, Pellets, BB's. I lived on a farm lot. We weren't farmers, but we had farm land surrounding us with a creek in the back and everything. 55 on that farm lot plus more around it. For a teenage boy, at least for me, I was in heaven. Except I felt really bad when one day I shot a redwing black bird, for no good reason. I never did that again. |
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This is one of the things that I like about the shooting sports . Some guys get all wound up in buying the best of everything and some can take a fairly modest gun and just take pleasure in shooting it as is just for the heck of it. Some of the single shots can be fairly accurate . Try some standard velocity ammo and you might be surprised . Another thing to look at is the trigger . Some of the single shots are a bit rough but the triggers are dead simple as all they do is release the hammer so cleaning them up is not hard. do some searching for instructions . If it were me I might attempt to build a full sized butt stock . I think there would be stocks available but DIY is always cheap and fun . Sounds like fun I'll measure it. It breaks like glass and is a little heavy, but not as bad as I thought it would be on a cheap gun. Out of 3 pulls it averaged at 5.5 pounds. It's not bad at all...... Yeah, if it was 4 or 3 it would probably make for a better varmint gun, but whatever. I'm not really that much of a trigger snob. Anything under 7 is GTG for me. But I do shoot better with lighter triggers. I am human. 
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They are neat little guns, and my first choice for a kid's rifle (instead of the usual recommendation of any of the bolt-action single-shots).
Since the designs are virtually identical, the accurizing tricks for the H&R / NEF single shots are generally applicable to the Rossi guns. Basically, you want to minimize pressure on the barrel. Free-float the forend so that the only contact is at the receiver and the hanger where the forend screw/front swivel attaches. The plastic forends are often warped a bit. Put a rubber washer under the barrel at the hanger to further isolate the forend. If you use a rest, put it right up against the front of the trigger guard, i.e., still under the receiver. Forget using a sling as anything other than a carrying strap. In my limited experience, they are pretty accurate, but have definite ammo preferences; plan on going through a fairly broad selection to find the one or 2 loads your rifle likes. |
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They are neat little guns, and my first choice for a kid's rifle (instead of the usual recommendation of any of the bolt-action single-shots). Since the designs are virtually identical, the accurizing tricks for the H&R / NEF single shots are generally applicable to the Rossi guns. Basically, you want to minimize pressure on the barrel. Free-float the forend so that the only contact is at the receiver and the hanger where the forend screw/front swivel attaches. The plastic forends are often warped a bit. Put a rubber washer under the barrel at the hanger to further isolate the forend. If you use a rest, put it right up against the front of the trigger guard, i.e., still under the receiver. Forget using a sling as anything other than a carrying strap. In my limited experience, they are pretty accurate, but have definite ammo preferences; plan on going through a fairly broad selection to find the one or 2 loads your rifle likes. Good advice. My plan is to shoot it off hand a lot though, once I dial it in. I'm trying to get better at that. Plus my club has .22 silhouette matches and you're supposed to shoot them off hand. Although I hear they're not real anal about it. Just show up and have fun. I might not be able to hit any of them while standing up though.....  
I do have a good selection of different brands and types of .22 ammo. At this point. |
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I"d look at rifling twist to see what it might favor. Single shot would be good for loading custom rounds for being no magazine length restrictions. It's a .22 LR.................... I don't know what the twist is though. I don't think it's marked on the barrel.... |
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I"d look at rifling twist to see what it might favor. Single shot would be good for loading custom rounds for being no magazine length restrictions. It's a .22 LR.................... I don't know what the twist is though. I don't think it's marked on the barrel.... I suspect smashedminer missed the part about it being a .22LR. That said, your twist rate will be 1 in 16.5 inches, similar to most .22 rimfire barrels. |
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OP should have bought a reloader and/or components.  I didn't buy the gun. It was a gift for my son from his father in law. So it's just sitting there not being shot because the kids like the 10/22 more. But I hear ya. A while back I was gearing up to reload. I bought a dillon tumbler and then my health went into the tanker because of lyme disease. So it all got put on hold. It is a good idea though. I do have a buddy that says I can use his stuff if I want to.... Not sure how that would work, but I might have to take him up on it. I've got brass....... 
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If you really wanted to go low buck you could pick up a Lee loader kit. This is the die set that doesn't use a press, just some "hand dies" and your own plastic mallet. They only neck size but they do what they do quite well. For a single shot rifle fiddling around they'd be just fine. No worries about chambering like in an AR. Just shoot brass that's been fired in the single shot before or test fit before loading up some acquired cases.
You could fool around making some mousefart loads with it. Play around with some ballistic tips or some 52/53 BTHP and I think you'd be tickled pink with the accuracy. My buddy first got into reloading for his used M700 .243 varmint with one of those kits. The loads were sub moa with the supplied plastic scoop for measuring powder. The scoops are rudimentary for measuring powder as you might guess but they worked well. |
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Facepalm.
It's a .22 LR. (which I already explained a couple of posts ago when it was first suggested I reload for it) The only reason we're talking about reloading is because the point of this gun was to give me something to shoot, when I go to the range, OTHER than my AR's. So it will save me money in 5.56/.223 if I shoot them a little bit less. Unless you are suggesting I get another barrel for this gun. Which would be cool. I'm not really sure if I can though. And if I'm going to shoot .223/5.56, it might as well be in my AR's. I did always want a bolt gun in 5.56 / .223 to slow down shooting too. And I just like bolt guns a lot. |
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Oops, my mistake. I read it once.....must of slipped off the egg on my face. 
I may or may not have come back via the little green tag next to the thread in active topics and got twisted around in my pea brain. I hear ya. I hope I didn't make it sound like I was mad at you. It was pretty funny though because I just explained the same thing to someone else. LOL. You gave me a laugh. |
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I shot it all on 9x at 34 yards just sitting down. Getting it close to POI. There were no good benches available. So I guess I need to plop myself down at a good bench and see what this gun likes and how it does. It seemed to hit where I was aiming at when I did my part. A sling would be good too.
I actually thought it was a lot of fun. 
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