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Whats Wrong With My New Rifle?
buddyb
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I needed a 22 to leave in my shop to keep squirrels from taking over.I keep my old Stevens that I bought used in 1967 in the shop but there is no way to mount a scope on it and I needed a scope with my elderly eyes.I bought a cheap Rossi semi auto.When I shot it with the sights,it was about 3 feet low from about 40 feet.Put a new Simmons rimfire scope on it,still 3 feet low.Cranked the scope up as far as it would go,2 feet low.Any ideas for a possible fix?
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Shim the scope, or maybe try new scope rings.
Aim 2 feet high. Don
What kind of stock is it in? How's the fit?
Send that junk back to Taurus/Rossi. Nothing should start THAT far off. Something is amiss.
Get another rifle.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Return it for an exchange. Don't care who built it, those numbers are horrid
My wife bought me a high dollar muzzle loader. I mounted a Burris Fullfield II scope. I finally had to put a piece of brass shim stock under the front base to get it sighted in. I'm sure it put the scope in a bind, so I took it off and the gun sits in the back of the safe.
Trade it in for a Ruger!
Another option, watch the Pawn shops for a used Marlin. Ive got two and they shoot great.
Burris signature rings with the offset inserts has fixed some of mine that were way off like that
Could you reason with the squirrels?
old ammo?
Not sure about an easy fix. Shimming the scope could work but being that far off at 40 ft would surely stress the scope with the amount of shimming required. I had really bad luck with 2 Rossi rifles I owned in the past and even hated selling them at the gun counter. My suggestion is either send it back for repair or return it and buy an inexpensive Marlin mod 60. There are a bunch on the auction side to choose from if you can't find one locally. Bob
Don't pass up a Remington 597 if it's under $200.
Tikka TX-1, cry once.
It appears that the barrel is mis-aligned with the scope mounting and nothing you do at home is going to fix such a large mis-alignment. This is a factory fix or replacement type issue.
Shim the scope!!!
Don't even mess with it, trade it, get over it and get a Ruger 10-22 -Time is short, don't send it in , nothing. Trade it!!!
To each his own, I guess. Personally, however, I don’t feel right passing on a known problem to someone else. Gun, car, whatever. If you trade or sell it and don’t disclose what you know, that’s just plain dishonest.
There was an old western where the young man must have been cross eyed. He had the rear sight shifted way off center. Might do something like that.🙃
You assume to much, I guess along with dishonest I am no expert either. TAKE it to the place that you bought it and trade. They can send it in, not the buyer and save the trouble.
Ah…ok. My apologies. Didn’t get that from your post. Thought you were suggesting to just pass it off on someone. Tracking now.
Get a bean flip.
Life is too short to hunt with a ugly cheap gun.
(I'll not list any names but you guys know them)
A true Bubba would remove the barreled action from the stock, set it up perfectly vertical on a pair of 2x4 blocks, and then give it a good whack right in the middle with a 4 lb. singlejack.
No need to thank me, but I'm sure we'd all like a video of the process!
The question is, though……. would such a whacking take that rifle from loser to “worls clas?”
Could become the first “worls clas” Rossi out there, capable of shots so long you have to shoot on Monday to hit on Tuesday.
We do that at the shop I do a little time working for. If a new firearm is bought there and the buyer brings it back with such and such problem we offer a new firearm of same or trade for whatever they want in the shop. We then ship said firearm back to manufacture as a dealer return and have a happy customer and vast majority of the time the manufacture does the dealership right.
But I still stand a Ruger is tough to beat out of the box along with some of the older model 60's which I have several that work great also.
Grasshopper,
That’s good service on y’all’s part. These days, I think that’s a rare thing. Wish I had a shop nearby that had that outlook.
I’d agree on the Marlin or Ruger. I think one of my favorite rifles is a Glenfield Mod 60 (the one with the squirrel, etc. carved in the stock). Cost me a whopping $45 at a pawn shop 25 years ago, and shoots like a dream. 10/22 isn’t far behind, but the Marlin/Glenfield is just a little smoother. Also, I love me some micro-groove rifling!
Buy a Savage. Deadly accurate out of the box, not fussy about the brand of ammunition either.
an old guy I used to work with said his brother used to do that to shotguns. he had a big leather bag full of sand. would take the barrell and just whack it down on the bag with a good swing, said he usually didn't need more than 2 "adjustment" to get the barrell shooting straight, mainly for slug hunting but he claimed it helped with the shot pattern also, this was way before bore sights and this other new fancy stuff........