Thread: I love my Rossi .357 levergun, but I don't shoot well with it.

Changing the rear sight to an apeture from the original semi buckhorn style will give a longer sight radius and better sight picture.
The crappy factory sights on most lever actions 94s included are what gives them a reputation for being close range numbers only. An apeture would half your groups at least based on my experience.
With your rossi do you reload or use factory? Factory is loaded to pistol pressure and you can jazz it up heaps for a rifle by hand loading. Having said that its got more grunt than the 32/20 and that works ok!

Did you sell the trapper viper?always wanted one but they are rare as rocking horse shit.

Originally Posted by The bomb

Did you sell the trapper viper?always wanted one but they are rare as rocking horse shit.

Yeah I did but for another reason, the barrel wasn't screwed true into the receiver.
It was the angle eject model so I mounted a low power scope but ran out of adjustment to the left, had me totally buggered.
Rang a gunsmith and explained it and he straight away said it's shooting way off to the right, which it was.
It was about the 8-9th one he had seen like it. Didn't matter with iron sights as both the rear and fore sight are barrel mounted but put a scope on ( receiver mounted ) and the barrel is way off going right and the scope is straight ahead on the reciever and you run out of scope adjustment to the left. Once I l knew and looked down the receiver the barrel was bloody miles out of alignment.
No wonder Winchester went broke producing shit like that, check one before you buy it.
Shame as it was a very cool little gun, joy to carry.