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I've got a pair of the Rossi guns, acquired sometime in the 90s.
One is a backup parts gun, the frame's warped.
The other's a decent little shooter.
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Unfortunately, it seem to be the only way to go when you find a good one.
I had a 62SAC and a 62SA. Or didn't have an SA. Or maybe I was only storing it. My memory of the situation is a bit foggy, and it was a moderately complicated situation.
The SA was a basket case, made worse by a garage 'gunsmith' that didn't take the time to understand how the action functioned, before he started "fixing" it.
So, the SA was declared an organ donor to keep the 62SAC alive.
And then I shot myself in the foot...
I figured out how to re-redneck the Bubba jobs without actually fixing the parts, and the previous owner and I got the SA running again with some modified Winchester 62A parts. (And a nail. It's not a proper redneck job without a nail in there somewhere...)
Since we had it running again and I hadn't actually paid for the rifle in the first place, I kindly obliged when the owner wanted to put the rifle back in service, rather that storing it as an organ donor. He does still say that it's "half" mine, though.