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Special Interests - Groups & Societies => Shotguns => Topic started by: Tuolumne Lawman on December 18, 2021, 10:06:19 AM
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Working part time at the local gunshop has its advantages! I was at work the other day (actually the acting manager when the owner was gone on vacation) when a guy comes in with a couple guns to sell on consignment. One was a nondescript bolt gun, and one was a pristine Rossi Overland 12 Ga. hammered double Coach Gun with 20" barrels.
I asked him how much he wanted to net after our 20%, he said "$325". I bought it on the spot in a Commiefornia Private Party Transfer. I then turned around and processed it into my name on a DROS through the shop, all in the same day. Commiefornia has a 10 day jail, but not planning on shooting any matches until after I get it out.
It is identical to the Rossi I used started CAS with in 1994, and used for many years. I sold that one when I went very inactive in CAS in the mid-2000s, and have been looking for the right one at the right price since I went back very active around 2016.
Anyway, I have, as of late, been using a nice bobbed 97 and a super clean Ithaca Lefever cut to 18.5". I promptly turned around and sold the Lefever to a regular customer for $500. $150 in my pocket and a beauty of a Rossi Overland! I even have some spare firing pins for the Rossi that I had a machinist friend make up back when I had the first one.
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Excellent! But hey, you know, pictures! :)
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Pictures? Since it's in CA Jail, wouldn't those be Mug Shots?
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" ... appraising, that's me part time at the local Gunshop has its advantages," ???
well, YES and no it can be detriment to your wallet too....
YOU Sir, are a card-carrying Gun a holic , take's one to recognize one ::)
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:) PLUS ONE for Abilene ;)
Mug Shots are Due Rigger around these parts !!
Play Safe Out There
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This things is near mint!
(https://i.imgur.com/tT0XHyD.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/9gtQkv3.jpg)
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Sure is!
Maybe you can hold on to this one. :)
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:) T. L. ;)
WaBac (thank Sherman and the Perfesser) and I do mean WAY BACK I had an absolutely pristine Rossi Overland 20Ga Coach. Absolutely loved it. No I didn't. that thing was light, nimble, quick on target and did I mention . . ''LIGHT". That cute little sucker beat me like a rented mule. I have never reloaded shotgun (except now, All Brass) and couldn't find light (tru light) 20Ga ammo. Target ammo rattled my brain and battered me blue. Sold it as quick as I could.
Had I known about Fiocchi Trainer . . . . . . .
Play Safe Out There
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They had JUST discontinued them when I started down the CAS trail,
I hunted for one to no avail. made do with a loaner, hand me down A.H. Fox for a year.
While still searching for one, wound up with a Stoeger Coach, which just about everybody was using.
I made my peace (never to find a Rossi to buy) when I got my TTN, when Walt Johnson was the only go-to importer.
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Best CAS hammer coach gun ever made. Coil spring sidelocks, and some got chrome line barrels (mine does!) Got mine and never giving it up.
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:) Nah ;)
Can't even describe the Rossi as "the Best Coach Gun" ever made. Jack be nimble, Jack be Quick, Jack jumped the Candle Stick. The Rossi were/are "nice" guns. There were/are however, FAR better made guns. Of course, also far more expensive.
People are Hazardous to yer Health.
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Taking the Rossi to the local match tomorrow. Ill have to see how she does on the Cowboy Trap stage we shoot (15 birds, CAS main match shotguns, only. I suck at trap, an 7 or 8 out of 15 is my usual with the 18" Ithaca Lefever I have been using (though once I did 9/15!), so it will be interesting to see.
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My 20ga Rossi Coach gun had issues, the barrels did not shoot to the same point. After 20 yrs I traded it on a Taylors 150th yr centennial 66.
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Used it at a local match. Shot clean with it. Even nailed all the clay pigeons on the knockdown poppers that toss a bird. Both barrels seemed dead nuts on. I also used it on Cowboy trap (15 birds). Did 6 out of 15, which ids about normal for me. Usually 6-8/15.
I will say that it doesn't beat up my shoulder as much as the Ithaca Lefever did.