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Anybody here have either one of them? Or maybe another Rossi or even another brand with similar sights?

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I’ve ordered one of each this week and in preparation for wanted to get both threaded I had a couple questions.

1. How much effort is is to remove the sights? It looks like on the front I remove the hood and then drift the fiber...and it leaves me access to two screws?

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but I’m not seeing how I’d remove the rear in that pic...although the diagram does show two holes in the barrel:

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2. Anybody know if the barrel is easily removed? Or will I have to disassemble as far as I can go and send the barreled action?
 
To remove the rear sight, you have to unscrew the elevation screw all the way off. After this is done, the rear sight should hinge upwards, exposing the two Phillips head screws. I don't have the Bravo or Gallery, but I do have the RB22, which has the same sights.

Note that there's a spring under the elevation screw, so make sure it doesn't go sproing.
 
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itsalluphillfromhere said:
To remove the rear sight, you have to unscrew the elevation screw all the way off. After this is done, the rear sight should hinge upwards, exposing the two Phillips head screws. I don't have the Bravo or Gallery, but I do have the RB22, which has the same sights.

Note that there's a spring under the elevation screw, so make sure it doesn't go sproing.
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Awesome input...thanks!
 
@itsalluphillfromhere

If you have a set of calipers, could you tell me the OD of the barrel at the muzzle? (Nothing to do with the sights, just curious)
 
frakncylons said:
I’m curious, do you expect the magazine rod to clear the suppressor?
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I’d asked the same questions above on AR15. Somebody replied that they’d been considering the Gallery, but were worried about the can not clearing the mag tube cap once the barrel was threaded.

I’d been focused on the distance from muzzle to band and hadn't considered the issue he did. A couple solutions:
1. Just have to remove the silencer (yuck)
2. Use an adapter that’s the same OD as the barrel that would let you slide it out just enough you could flex it around the silencer.

I’ll check it out once mine arrives, but thought I’d ask. I need to put calipers on my cans as well. And get the distance between barrel and tube cap. But if the can is actually 1” (like it says online), I’d need the gap to be ~.2” to make it work.
 
Something like this would fix #2 and give me o-ring engagement.

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Rio Bravo has been sitting at THSF since late last week. Gallery is on the brown truck for delivery today. Scheduled to pick both of them up first thing tomorrow morning.

My two take-a-chance-on-a-cheap-scope-knowing-I-may-return-them optics are out for delivery to me today.

Hopefully that means I have an idea of how things are gonna work out sometime in the next week.
 
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That’s just a glare on the lever gun...
 
frakncylons said:
I’m curious, do you expect the magazine rod to clear the suppressor?
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😢

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So...looks like I’ll have to thread them and use an extension. And even then, possibly remove the can to reload.
 
Dropped them off today to have the barrels threaded. Said he’ll probably get to them this weekend, but 🤞🏼 I can pick them up Friday instead. 😎😁

Real interested in seeing the results. It ought to look good, since the SiCo adapters are roughly the same OD as the barrel:

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Not going to shorten them at all, but there’s room between the muzzle and barrel bad for it to fit:

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Just still don’t know if I’ll be able to remove the inner magazine tube with the can attached. It’s gonna be tight. Hmmm...
 
Got them back together. One tip...if you don’t put the bolt back in, it’s not even gonna manually cycle correctly. 🙄

I had a little contact interference still between the inner tube cap & o-ring and the silencer. My original thought over the last week was to see if I could grind a little out of the bottom of the barrel band (it’s more figure 8 shaped, with formed channels for the barrel and tube, as opposed to just an oval around both) and run a shim between the top of the tube and the band. While driving home from picking up the barrels, I’d had a duh-huh moment that was gonna be my first plan of attack. The plug in the end of the brass tube was a larger OD than the inner tube, and was held in by a pin. Why not grind a flat spot in that piece where it’s needs to be oriented when removed and inserted? So I did that...and the o-ring still hit the can. Tried it without the o-ring and had no clearance issues...but obviously the inner tube moved a little in the magazine. So I cut a section of the o-ring out, roughly the length of the flat spot I now had, and super glued the rest of it back to the plastic end.

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Ta-da!! Daylight the whole way!!

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BigWaylon said:
Got them back together. One tip...if you don’t put the bolt back in, it’s not even gonna manually cycle correctly. 🙄

I had a little contact interference still between the inner tube cap & o-ring and the silencer. My original thought over the last week was to see if I could grind a little out of the bottom of the barrel band (it’s more figure 8 shaped, with formed channels for the barrel and tube, as opposed to just an oval around both) and run a shim between the top of the tube and the band. While driving home from picking up the barrels, I’d had a duh-huh moment that was gonna be my first plan of attack. The plug in the end of the brass tube was a larger OD than the inner tube, and was held in by a pin. Why not grind a flat spot in that piece where it’s needs to be oriented when removed and inserted? So I did that...and the o-ring still hit the can. Tried it without the o-ring and had no clearance issues...but obviously the inner tube moved a little in the magazine. So I cut a section of the o-ring out, roughly the length of the flat spot I now had, and super glued the rest of it back to the plastic end.

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Ta-da!! Daylight the whole way!!

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Sweet! I wasn’t sure this would work out, glad it did.
 
Shot both of them for the first time today. No issues. Tried shorts in the pump and they worked fine as well. Didn’t try them in the lever.

@beamernc was present, so I’ll let hide give his input before I say much more.
 
Not twins, but definitely cousins.

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richardlc said:
Which do you think runs better?
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Neither one has more than 40 rounds through it, but didn’t have any issues running either one.

I’ve never owned a pump other then a my two 870s. And I’ve never had a level until I bought a Henry 357 last year, which also has <40 rounds through it. So...having very little experience with either platform, they both worked fine to me.
 
They both seemed to run fine. Only took a few shots to get them sighted in to POR, point of rabbit.
 
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