45 Colt Drought in my area, I discovered about 75 rounds of standard-pressure factory reload. 45 Colt ammo wasn’t just expensive it was flat-out unavailable at the five local big-box retailers I searched at the time.ĭespite the surprising Great. Our testing was unfortunately limited to some low-velocity 255-grain RNL factory reloads, some equally sluggish 230-grain JHP factory reloads, and a few boxes of my own medium-strength 255-grain hardcast SWCs. There’s no reason not to think the Rossi M92 could deliver slightly better accuracy if you can try it out with numerous. This is about the same as most parts-kit AKs, along with the very crappiest big-box store bolt guns. This 5 MOA accuracy could be extrapolated to predict 5″ or 6″ groups at 100 yards. My 255-grain SWC handloads grouped consistently low and left like this, but they did at least group consistently, in about a 2″ cluster at 40 yards. 45 Colt carbine was extremely load-sensitive when it came to point of impact and accuracy.
The best groups like this one were produced with 255-grain SWC lead bullets over 8.0 grains of Unique. Practical accuracy is more pedestrian, and this two-inch, 40-yard group is fairly typical of what we experienced. Few Rossi 92s will ever shoot that well in real life, because they should never wear a scope, and they aren’t much fun to shoot from a benchrest. Benchrested with a scope, it’s probably mechanically capable of cheap bolt-action rifle accuracy in the 3-4 MOA range. Rossi sells a fitted Weaver rail section that screws to the barrel for about $15, but you’ll have to remove the rear sight to install it.Īs I mentioned, this lever gun ain’t a tackdriver. You’ll give up some John Wayne cowboy cred but you’ll gain some accuracy and target-spotting ability. This will improve both your speed and precision without sacrificing the cowboy vibe of your cowboy carbine.įiber-optic sights are another unobtrusive option, but if you absolutely must put a scope on a saddle-ring carbine like this, make it a long eye-relief “scout” scope and mount it as low as you can. If you want better sights, have your gunsmith install a Williams or Lyman rear peep sight with a wide-open rear aperture and put a higher-visibility bead up front. You just don’t do this sort of thing to a rifle like this if you want long-range precision you won’t find it with a pistol-caliber saddle carbine anyway. Even at this price, I’m not particularly tempted to go this route. Although it’s slightly offset to the left (more discomfort) it also looks like it could deflect ejected cases back into the open action. It’s cheap and easily removed, but it looks like an ugly and uncomfortable abomination. B-Square sells this aluminum no-gunsmith mount for about $40. Iron sights just don’t work for some shooters, often due to poor eyesight.
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