Posted: 7/5/2011 7:18:02 AM EDT
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The holiday weekend gave me several chances to try my new Rossi M92 .44 mag carbine.
The first shots were high....not enough adjustment in the rear sight to get the gun targeted. 
Took the rear sight elevation wedge off the gun..and let the sight set on the barrel as low as it would go...this got the gun on target. Accuracy proved good once I got the carbine sighted to hit. An interesting thing I noticed with the wedge out of the sight.....there is two pairs of drilled and tapped holes underneath the rear sight....Rossi's website lists a scope mount rail with screws for anybody that wants to mount a scope out on the barrel 'scout rifle' style. So after we got home from shooting the stainless .44 mag carbine.....I pondered the sights..and how to fix the issue with not enough adjustment to get it on target...needs a lower rear sight...or a taller front sight... 
Fortunately....I played this same game with a Rossi .22 pump when I was a kid....the Rossi .22 shooting high...and not enough depression for the rear sight to bring it on target. The Rossi .22 I fixed by grinding the top off the rear sight blade until it was reduced down enough to hit the target. I did much the same to the Stainless M92....I removed the sight elevator wedge and stuck a piece of cardboard under the sight to protect the gun..and used a tiny little Dremal carbide bit to cut the sight notch deeper...then used a bigger stone to grind the top edge of the sight into a 'semi-buckhorn' shape reducing it's height quite a bit. The next day we tried it again..and still just a touch high....so after shooting I ground the rear sight elevation wedge off on it's bottom edge to reduce it's height. This got the carbine sighted in perfectly for 240gr loads. The Rossi M92 shoots and works excellent. I thought it might be a bitch to load at first..but after stuffing the mag-tube full a few times the mag spring seemed to ease up a bit and loading ammo in the side-gate ain't no big deal now...easier to load than my Marlin 1894 in .45 Colt..or my old Winchester 94 .30-30 carbine. Overall fit and finish on the Rossi/Taurus/Braztec M92 is pretty decent....the exterior of the rifle's metal/receiver/barrel/parts/etc is good to very good. The receiver side flats being a bit wavy. I would say the wood to metal fit is excellent except the buttstock's left front edge lacks just a bit of fitting up to the receiver properly..and isn't fitted up near as well as the rest of the wood. I sandwiched an ultra-thin piece of walnut shim in the gap on the buttstock's left front..fixed the gap..and improved appearances. I have not really decided what to do to the little 'bolt safety. Pretty much just ignored it so far. I did use it when unloading the carbine...locking the firingpin and cycling the action to pump the shells out. Probably remove it although it doesn't bother me too much visually. The Rossi seems like a keeper..shoots and works well. |
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Nah..this is a stainless steel 'fishing-gun' 'four-wheeler gun' 'hog-rifle'...hog rifle being favorite title..because I've got plans to hopefully smack down a feral pig or two. 
I've used .44 mag carbines on wild hogs before with good success. wished we had more feral hogs running around my area, few years back was deer hunting with a good bud on his property trying to put his oldest son on a deer when we came across a sow with piglets, I shot a 60 pounder with my 45/70, drove the 425gr ranchdog from snout to ass on into the trees, little bastard dropped out of sight so fast my bud thought I'd missed, I couldn't see the hit as I was in recoil, but we walked down to where it was standing and there it was. some inlaws of theirs was down for thanksgiving and the woman took that pig, deboned, stuffed it with fruit, rolled it up and roasted/rotiseried with some kind of honey/mustard/apricot glaze, it was the best tasting pig I'd ever eaten. |
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I shot one last summer that was so full of worms in the meat that I took it back to the woods for the coyotes and 'squatches' to snack on...  I wondered about if the summer time hogs were wormy, figured they were like wild rabbits, only kill for eating in the cooler months. |
Damn!..That's an ugly hole in the breech-bolt with the funkey little safety removed..
I think I can maybe machine-down a stainless steel bolt and reproduce a 'safety-hole plug'...save the $18 a store bought plug costs to make a down payment on another box of .44 magnums.. 
Back to the wormy..tick..lice infected field diggers....They can be tough to kill....I've never had much problems with knocking one off...but every once in a while you hear stories about some big tusker absorbing absorbing large numbers of powerful bullets and failing to keel over.. 
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I ain't seen one wild hog in Logan County.
Ever. 4 legged that is. (I'm told there are a few two legged ones at Perry's Roadhouse on Hwy 74 north of the Cimarron. )
My son has seen them over north of Meridian and over at Dover. We have a couple of places up north of Crescent on the Skeleton that supposedly have hogs on there all the time. Of course I don't get out and around like I use to when Old Bud was alive. If I'd have run into them with Old Bud, there would have been a slaughter if we could have got the shots off with them in the open.
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