Steve's Gunz' receiver sight for Rossi Model 92?

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Naphtali
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Steve's Gunz' receiver sight for Rossi Model 92?

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I just picked up another stainless steel Rossi 92 in 45 Colt. I will be buying Steve's 92 kit for it. I am undecided whether to buy his safety plug for the 92 with its integral receiver sight or having the 92 drilled & tapped for a Marble's W&E tang sight. I will be needing adjustability for one lighter handload and another for its very heavy handload for 305-grain Saeco SWC-GC. I also want certain durability. My other 92s have tang sights and I obtain durability by the tang sights' folding down and out of harm's way. But I had not considered doing away with Rossi's safety on either of them. This time, I'm considering but have no experience with doing the replacement thing. I also have no experience with how that safety plug is to be installed to have the integral receiver sight correctly for the sight assembly, nor do I know how the sight is adjusted and set for a load that it stays set.
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Re: Steve's Gunz' receiver sight for Rossi Model 92?

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Re: Steve's Gunz' receiver sight for Rossi Model 92?

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The safety replacement sight is easy to install--just drifting out a pin if I remember correctly. I put one on a Rossi mare's leg in .44 Magnum and it stayed put.
You still might be better served by the tang sight for ease of adjustment between your two loads.
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Re: Steve's Gunz' receiver sight for Rossi Model 92?

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Consider TWO sights - one set for each load. In a perfect world both sights could fold, and you could easily do that. Even if only one folds, depending on how far they are apart, and how different the settings have to be, you may be able to do that still.

I've had a couple guns with a 'Marbles Bullseye' in the rear barrel dovetail, and was able to set up a tang sight on one of them for use at very long range, making a nice compliment to the Marbles Bullseye's fast/close niche. The one it worked for was the one the front bead was in-between-rings on the Marble's Bullseye when viewed through the up-folded tang sight. The other one wound up with the outer Marble's ring obscuring the front bead when I tried to sight in at or past 200 yards, so I took off both and used a Williams FP 'ghost-ringed' with a Target knob on the elevation screw for rapid reproducible adjustment for range (I left the regular knob on windage since I seldom change that setting).
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