Picked it up from Buds last month. I wanted a stainless 16" but waited too long and ended with a blued 20. It was rough out of the box as Rossi's tend to be, wouldn't feed more than 2 rounds in the magazine tube, but shot to point of aim and very well with my aging eyesight. These are Federal 158 grain 357 soft points, the first 10 shots out of her.
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the dye came off with any amount of moisture so I wiped it down with many wet paper towels.
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I removed the stock and hosed it out with break cleaner, then cycled it about 1500 times over the next week. Removed the stock and soaked it in hot water to prepare it for a hand rubbed oil finish.
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numerous hand rubbed coats of 25 year old boiled linseed oil later
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and finally
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It has had a few teething issues but feeds even my semi wadcutter 38 specials, is fun as hell and cheap to shoot, fits in my hand and carries like it was made just for me. There is just something about the feel of a good lever gun in your hand. Other rifles just don't carry like these do. Now to find the perfect deer load for Michigan whitetails as we can now shoot pistol caliber rifles in the former shotgun zone I live in.