Long before Rossi

by Charles, Monday, April 04, 2022, 11:37 (1306 days ago) @ JimT

or anyone else made lever carbines in 357 Mag, a gunsmith in Douglas AZ named Ward Koozer rebored and modified 25-20 and 32-20 Win 92s to 357 Mag. About 1961 a local army surplus and pawn shop had a couple of dozen of ratty 92s that came out of Mexico. I bought a rifle in 25-20 and sent it to Koozer. Before it went, I drawfiled the octagon barrel as they edges were pretty worn. Koozer did his magic and shortened the barrel to 18 inches. I put a Lyman receiver sight on it, and used it for some years. It was a javelina killing Jessie. After a few years, I sold it to some guy who wanted it bad enough to pry me loose from it.