1892 Win/Miroku lever action 'levering' versus Rossi 92's

[mickbr]

Fellas is the lever cycling action of the Japchesters the same as with Rossi 92's? Im not talking reliability or quality so much as just comparing stroke and lever movement? No tricks or differences? Asking as I have never seen one in the flesh and thinking to get one shipped to me.

[cvarcher]

I have a wonderful Win 92 long barrel Miroku copy. Its a beautiful rifle that cycles smoothly and and very accurate with my handloads .I have a skinner peep site and can take deer out to 100 yards easily with it. Its shooting 300 grain XTP at 1650fps.I also had the trigger action smoothed out and have the half cock safety working by Turnbull.

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[earlmck]

I've got both Rossi and Miroku plus originals and they are all good.

[Paladin]

I don't have a Miroku, but the Marlins and Winchesters I have never had problems with. The Rossis's, some needed tweaking, but at below 1/2 the price, I didn't mind.

[Pat C]

None of the coil springs guns are as smooth as original .
The best repro was the AMF 1892 and the Chiappa 1892 Both had original leaf spring. Much smoother.

Even with reduced spring my Rossi is much harder to cycle.

[LeverGunner]

I have a Turnbull converted 1892 Deluxe. As it came, it was bit stiff. It wasn't stiff because of heavy springs, but a combination of heavier oils inside, tight tolerances, and needing a bit of smoothing. I polished the ramps on the lower side of the bolt which eased the action tremendously. This area, the top of the locking bolts rubs against. In lieu of letting it wear in, I polished it with fine sandpaper. I polished the curved area, and did not polish inside the notch, as that controls headspace.



The other wear shown on the bolt is natural, from cycling the action 2000 times to see if that would smooth the gun up. It did smooth it some, but not enough for my liking.

I've not owned a Rossi, but I have several friends that have had them. The ones I had handled had been smoothed out by one of my friends, and were slick. They had been gone through.

[piller]

I shot a Miroku 86 that was owned by a former member, long story, and it was easy to use. It was nice.

[LeverGunner]

I've owned an 1886 Winchester made by Miroku, and I've shot at least one other. The one I had was pretty smooth, and the one I shot was pretty smooth as well.

I do recall now, checking out a Rossi 92 in the gun store that was new. It was pretty stiff, but it wasn't unbearable straight out of the box. On my aforementioned friends 92, the loading port had an edge that was sharp as a razor. It would pull a shaving of fingernail (or a plug of skin).