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.
Excellent! But hey, you know, pictures! :)
Pictures? Since it's in CA Jail, wouldn't those be Mug Shots?
" ... 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 ::)
:) PLUS ONE for Abilene ;)
Mug Shots are Due Rigger around these parts !!
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This things is near mint!
(https://i.imgur.com/tT0XHyD.jpg)
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Sure is!
Maybe you can hold on to this one. :)
:) 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 . . . . . . .
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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.
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.
:) 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.
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.
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.
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.