Rossi M92 Review & Accuracy – A Great Carbine Value!
Rossi M92 Review & Accuracy – A Great Carbine Value!
Is the Rossi M92 (R92) the best carbine lever action 1892 value on the market today? Watch this video the find out…
Parts Mentioned in this video:
Safety Replacement Button: https://store.stevesgunz.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4_9&products_id=7&zenid=0c6q1b8lhpn50itvlmr92j6h42
Metal Mag Tube Cap: https://store.stevesgunz.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4_9&products_id=8&zenid=0c6q1b8lhpn50itvlmr92j6h42
Semi-Buckhorn Rear Sight: https://store.stevesgunz.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_16&products_id=43&zenid=0c6q1b8lhpn50itvlmr92j6h42
Front Replacement Sight: https://store.stevesgunz.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_13&products_id=72&zenid=0c6q1b8lhpn50itvlmr92j6h42
Why are you measuring in ‘feet’? If you’re measuring for accuracy you should be measuring in yards or meters like everyone else and what is standard
Why is it so important to remove the safety?
Bought mine yesterday.
It will shoot .357, .38 Special, and .38Long and short colt if the cartridges are long enough to cycle through the action. The 16" barrel can accelerate the .357 to the point where the bullet becomes somewhat frangible and disintegrates upon hitting the target, therefore making it perhaps not a good choice with just any ammunition for self defense. In .44 mag it should also be able to utilize .44 Special and .44 Russian. In .45 Colt it should be able to handle .45 Schofield as well. If you are going to diseminate information why not give it all to the masses?
I bought one of these yesterday and it’s really cool. Haven’t fired it bit it won’t feed soft lead tipped ammo it catches and won’t go into barrel. Went to local gunship this morning and they showed me what to use, brass jacketed hollow points and it works fine now.
The last deer I killed was with a Rossi 92 , one shot dropped it from around 60 yards . Magtech 158 grain soft point cartridge , went clean through the deer .
agreed, and it males a great medium game rifle in heavy brush
Rossi M92 is a piece of junk. Terrible action. Can barley cycle without moving it from your shoulder. Save up two more weeks and get a real gun.
Out of that rifle, a .357 hot load is almost equal to a 30-30. Its amazing.
(Energy at 100 yards.)
Excellent review. I’ve been on the cusp of getting one of these Rossis for a while now. I’ve been waiting for a 20" Stainless Steel in 357 but they seem to be hard to come by. The blued carbines in 16" and 20" appear to be readily available.
.357 is NOT a big game round, it’s the bear minimum for bear. 44 mag n about is suitable
I have this rifle in 45 colt and it is a great rifle.
Good review. I have one of them and like it. Thanks for the info. Way back when, Winchester informed the U.S. Army Ordnance Department that the correct pronouncement of Carbine rhymes with vine and and not with bean. I have it in writing somewhere, but I don’t think we really care. Rather like the potato and tomato I suppose.
great video my friend i am a subscriber now! Been wanting a level action for some time and i will look into this one?I already have loads of 38spcl laying around for my home defense handgun.would also love to add another caliber to my collection in the .357mag! 🙂
My R92 can hit a man sized target at 500 yards from a bench rest very well. I handload moderate .45 Colt loads topped with 255 grain lead bullets.
Love the vid but have to disagree on a certain point, I can replicate those groups with my handgun all day long but would not want to when it matters, any groups that close and you are not shooting fast enough on your double taps
Rossi 20 inch 44mag rule
You can handload 357 loads in a 38 case, just be damn sure you don’t use them in a 38 pistol.
I have a rossi in 44mag it was a really rough action had to do some finish work to get it smoothed out. Its my knockabout. I purchased a Miroku 92 in 44 mag twice the money and one hell of a rifle buttery smooth and accurate beautiful blueing and wood. Had tang saftey rebounding hammer deleted personal peev
"Keyholing" usually references the bullet going through the target sideways due to no longer being stabilized.
The 357 round is a great round . I owned a Ruger Service -Six revolver and it was a cannon. I can imagine what you can get from a carbine in the same caliber. I also like the idea of one round fits both. Thank you for the review. Btw, I also live in Az . Great state for owning a weapon like these. I think your upgrades are awesome, and when I buy mine, I’d like to do the same thing to mine as well.
Man, been deciding between this and a Henry Big Boy for a big now. My dad has a Henry and it’s easily my favorite gun to date, super solid, small, smooth as butter out of the box, absolutely lovely gun to shoot in every way. Still, the M92 has some mysterious appeal to me… plus the idea of saving $200 is pretty nice, too.
On a side note though, in the beginning you use ‘right’ in a weird way. Rights only exist if they are recognized. If the people around you don’t recognize something as a right, it isn’t one. People don’t have inherent rights, and human rights are only applicable to countries that recognize them. So if your gov’t doesn’t recognize something as a right, then it isn’t one.
1 word….. platform.
Subbed.
You could also run 38 special + p which is somewhere between a 38 special and a 357 Magnum so you actually have three round choices 38 special 38 special + p + 357 so it gives you a lot of versatility in just that caliber range for those people who are bug out preppers and all that it gives you three different rounds you can run through it and like you said it has a lot more uses and just blinking and can be used for hunting self-defense and even take much larger and dangerous game like bears if you have good shot placement
I love (for some strange reason) my .44 Ranch Hand. If they ever do away with that stupid SBR law, I’m putting a stock on it. I’ve already got all the Steve’s Gunz guts in it, did the recommended polish work, put the Steve’s peep instead of just plugging the hole in the bolt. Son bought me a holster for it, not exactly Josh Randall style but close. Out in the woods I’m totally comfortable with this rig.
Great review. Full of info.
I, for one, truly appreciate this rifle. It’s light weight, accurate, powerful enough, slim, very reliable, and truly can stop what needs to be stopped. It doesn’t take alot of knowledge to operate. It’s very simple to care for and upgrade at home. The ones i have, or had, respond very well to action jobs/trigger jobs, and are very easy to perform at home with only a small amount of skill and tools. There are videos that help out on youtube and other more gun friendly sites, so that makes it easier for the less informed. Just take your time, and don’t over do it. It’s a great do all gun. Hiking, hunting, packing, truck (or car), even motorcycle trips. Good plinker, and training gun as well. Some people don’t like it because it’s not an original. Well good for them. Not everyone has bill gates’ money to buy original winchesters, and not everyone is giving them away. I get what i can afford, and always make it better without making it say "STEAL ME!" It just makes sense to get a good gun, and make it better than an original. Besides, it’ll get you much more familiar with your firearm, and that puts you in line to buy more practice ammo. I never bought a single firearm to be "as good as" the top of the line gun, but I’ve made many better. I also don’t believe the lever gun could compete on an even playing field with an ar15, or m16. You just have to be better than the guy carrying it. Today’s gun snobs usually have very little experience with actual tactical use of a firearm, and those that do, don’t belittle the man who can only afford one gun. Thats another thing this gun is good for, tactical, and home defence. After all, this design was the original assault rifle.
Great little rifle for the reasons you stated. My preference would be to put a aperture on the receiver gold bead front. With adjustable aperture sight like xs the ghost ring or marbles tang would be great for self-defense and the smaller apertures would be great for target shooting out to range. What range do you feel is ethical for deer? I would prefer 44 Magnum cost more but better range for deer. Thanks for sharing good review 👍
I was wondering if it is possible for an older model 92 Rossi that does not have the safety to be modified to have the safety
added to it?
does the safety allow you to dry fire like i do with my Marlin 1895 safety? if so. then it has a purpose.
Can you mount a picatinny rail?
i agree with you wholeheartedly! i love my r92, it is accurate fro me and i don’t have to worry about getting it knocked around. now i am upping mine to a scout rifle.
Every goddamn video on youtube about this gun give sll this bullshit info and dont just shoot a test the damn gun. Stop doing these rookie fucking videos
I love lever actions – especially in 357. Don’t forget the 45LC – get both. More fun to shoot and easy to carry through the brush. Add S&W 586 for a sidearm and you’re ready for anything. BUT, I like the Marlin better because of the side ejection. Cost a little more and plan on doing some work to smooth out the action, most of the time.
To be honest the biggest market for these rifles is the popularity of Cowboy Action shooting. What we have discovered is the Rossi 92 is not the best choice at the same price pint of the Rossi the Marlin 1894 is a much better choice it has smother action and more reliable.
Elmer was more closely related to the 44 mag. Gun writer Phil Sharpe was the big pusher of 357 mag
It was far cheaper and more durable than the 1873 which wasvehu it was used in early western.
its easy to transport in boxes. great selling point.
I just bought a 20 inch Rossi R92 in 44 mag. The action was just barely acceptable and gritty. I ordered a spring upgrade kit for. The ejector spring was a serious PITA. No joke. I’m no gun smith, but I am pretty mechanically inclined. Information and "how to’s" are pretty scarce. I eventually got it installed and working, and man what a difference. Amazing improvement.
Beware, there are different types of spring upgrade kits. They make them with ejector springs that are the same length as the original (I bought one where it was nearly twice as long). Get the ones where the spring is the same or nearly the same length as the stock ejector spring (you’ll be glad you did). Also, I had to grind down a washer for the back of the hammer spring and put it on the guide rod because the new hammer spring would slip into the guide rod hole and cause significant resistance. When the hammer was first pulled back and when the last part of the hammer returning to the firing pin.
I have a .454/.45 LCin the stainless finish, it is a beautiful rifle; I have some upgrades that I would like to, one of them being my sights, but before I do, I would like to know what you think of the rear mounted flip up peep sight for this rifle? Thanks for the link to Steve’s. Would you happen to know where I can find a large loop lever and stainless?
Have the Rossi 45 70 loop level action. Shoots fantastic! Dead on at 100 yards. Drop my largest whitetail with it. I did take it to my gunsmith to smooth the action up a bit since it is very rough. Now its silky smooth andove it.
CARBEAN ???????
Only John’s was cool in a western
I love my Rossi M92 in .454 Casull. I learned on the very first shot to not leave my fingers in the lever loop, it felt like I broke them!
John Wayne actually preferred the 32-20
If u think that kicks try my 4590 with hot loads
*Hmm, no box magazine, no folding stock, no flash hider. How politically correct. I hate this trend of trying to popularize obsolete (aka: non assault) rifles. It smacks of manipulation.*
Are these legal in California ?
two legged predators. Oh yeah, those roos have been known to stalk their prey for weeks, only to strike when you least expect it and challenge you to an unfairly biased boxing match. Fear the roo, for he is king of the bush.