From Rossi . . .
Simple. Durable. Reliable. These are all words that come to mind when thinking of features in a last-ditch wilderness rifle. They’re also all features of the all-new Rossi Survival Rifle.
Built on the same tough-as-nails action as the Rossi Brawler pistol, the Survival Rifle is a 16-inch carbine with a hammer-forged barrel that accepts either 45 Colt or up to 3-inch 410 bore shotshells. The single-action trigger is crisp and breaks to the rear with minimal stacking, allowing shooters to place that all-important single shot exactly where they want it.
Additionally, the Survival Rifle features a polymer stock that holds additional ammunition, allowing outdoors enthusiasts to have plenty of extra ammo within reach. The automatic ejectors kick spent hulls and shells free of the gun with authority so that if you do need to reload, you can do it efficiently.
Lastly, the Survival Rifle can be quickly and easily broken down for easy transportation, fitting into small 72-hour bags or larger rucksacks. With an MSRP of $371, there’s no reason the newest offering from Rossi shouldn’t find its way onto your next outdoors adventure.
MSRP = $371
I wish it had a threaded barrel but i know why it doesn’t. Idiots would load 410 and shoot it through their suppressor. Maybe they could make a .45 acp only version with a threaded barrel.
I also would want a 22lr/12guage version where you get two barrels and can swap them. Have a nice bag to carry both barrels around.
I think this is a cool product. Its just too bad that .45 acp/410 is the only combo that makes sense for a rifle like this with one barrel. Wonder if it could handle a 454 Cassul or 460magnum round….
“Wonder if it could handle a 454 Cassul or 460magnum round….”
No, don’t even try a 460 S&W in something like this, and don’t try a 454 Casul either unless Rossi says it’s okay.
However, the TC Encore single shot rifle is available with 460 S&W barrels (as well as more powerful rifle calibers), so you know the TC Encore can handle 460 S&W and 454 Casul.
Match Grade Machine (MGM) makes a 45/410 barrel for the TC Encore that can also chamber 454 Casul, and since again, we know the TC Encore can handle 460 S&W, it’s no problem to shoot 454 Casul as well as 410 through that TC Encore 45/410 barrel.
I had that 45/410/454 barrel for my Encore, but I sold it because 45/410 barrels are a jack-of-all-trades that gives poor accuracy. The problem is that the barrel has to be rifled to handle the 45 Colt (and/or 454 Casul) as well as to comply with Federal laws about short-barreled shotguns. That rifling messes up shot patterns when firing 410 shotgun, creating a donut pattern that’s no good beyond a few feet, so forget about using them for hunting with 410 birdshot. It would make a decent snake gun, or with the right defensive ammo (such as Winchester PDX1, Hornady Critical Defense, or 000 buckshot 3″) a one-shot short-range home defense gun, but it’s mainly meant as a survival gun. You can use the 45 Colt for hunting anything up to deer at short range (50 yards), and the 410 at very close range (5 yards) for snakes, 2-legged predators or maybe a rabbit if you’re lucky.
I think the Savage Model 42 is a better choice, as it has a smoothbore 410 barrel above a 22 LR or 22 Magnum barrel. The Model 42’s rifle barrel isn’t terribly accurate either, but at least its 410 shotgun barrel is 20″ long and smoothbore, so it acts like an actual shotgun barrel and doesn’t give you a donut pattern.
Derringer Dave,
Well said.
I would also argue that .410 shot shells just do not provide enough shot to be very good for hunting much if anything at any significant distance–even with a full length smooth barrel.
I think a better minimum choice would be 28 gauge–and just plan on shooting slugs when hunting deer or larger game.
I understand where you’re coming from on the 28 gauge.
I hunt with a guy in central Utah who uses a 410 exclusively. He brings home plenty of pine hens, doves, and even pheasants.
the anti-fancy,
Your hunting buddy is an impressive marksman!
Friendly suggestion: if your hunting buddy ever challenges you to a skeet or trap competition, politely decline–especially if he wants to place a wager on the outcome!
Agreed. I was mostly joking. I would not put a really hot 45 in it.
I like the savage. I just wish it was 20 guage or 12 guage instead of 410 but 410 has come a long way in the last few years.
A chamber machined to accept a .410 shotshell can’t be good for accuracy when using a .45 Long Colt cartridge.
This thing’s thumbhole stock automatically prohibits it in CA. Dumb law that’s over two decades old now.
Haz,
Since I never heard of this when I was stationed in CA for quite a while, I looked it up. Everything I found says that CA considers a thumbhole stock a pistol grip (unlike the 90s-era Federal import ban), and it’s therefore one of the cumulative factors that makes a semiauto an “assault weapon”, but is not in itself illegal. TTBOMK, even the CSSR has no “prohibited features” for non-NFA manual long guns. Do you have a citation?
https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/penal-code/pen-sect-30515/
Just as I thought, a defining element in every subparagraph of that law is “a semiautomatic . . .”, except for the obviously irrelevant Streetsweeper section. Am I missing something?
Umm is right. Since it is not semi-auto, it is not an assault weapon and can be purchased in California.
The problem is that many LEOs and FFLs don’t understand our labyrinthine laws, and default to “no” on the side of caution for everything for their own CYA. I’ve even had an entire LGS (all employees there all the way up to the manager) insist that no guns are exempt from 4473, not even pre-1899 items. I’ve had conversations about thumbhole stocks, and they’re considered a red flag accessory. Not a single LEO I’ve talked with about them thinks they’re legal.
And therein lies the rub. Something might be permissible in CA as a carveout exemption, but if arresting LEOs and zealous DAs believe the law is *this* and not *that*, then everyone associated in your case will be informed accordingly and also believe it. And it will be up to you to defend yourself. The process is, as they say, the punishment.
Haz,
I can certainly believe that. I had a National City cop completely make something up about lane-splitting law (that was objectively false, and blatantly so to anyone who rides in CA) and the judge (some sort of part time volunteer deal) simply accept it with no opportunity for me to look up and demonstrate the truth.
It’s “Craptical” of course!
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This is an answer to a question that nobody asked. The only time I ever saw a “snake charmer” used to to finish off big halibuts with one to the head.
“This is an answer to a question that nobody asked.”
Not so sure on that one, ‘survival rifles’ have a place for some folks, the USAF had an over/under .410 / 22 Hornet with the M6 issued for aircrews :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M6_Aircrew_Survival_Weapon
That sounds like a rather GD useless “survival gun”. I’d rather have a sharp stick.
But they didn’t combine the shotgun barrel and the rifle barrel into one. Shot patterns get hurt by rifling.
Survival rifles, yes but not like this one in my opinion.
So its a single shot .410 with a plastic stock.
Just get an H&R Pardner.
It comes complete with a wooden club/canoe paddle stock and pry bar barrel.
More of a survival gunm then this Rossi.
Except the barrel ain’t rifled, which is probably better anyway.
Arrows, shotgunms can shute arrows too.
Wait, a 16” barrel? Wouldn’t that make it a SBS?
If they’re billing it as a “rifle”, my guess is it’s not a smoothbore barrel.
The barrel is rifled.
That helps spread the dense load of pellets a 410 delivers.
Does it take Glock magazines?
If the glock mags identify as .410/.45 Colt. Wait a tik! It goes both ways!
Does that make it an ammobisexual?
“Staff Writer” means staff at Rossi’s advertising dept. rather than staff at TTAG?
Roll those bones. Snake eyes? You write the next one.
Luftwaffe Model 30 for a _really_ all time champeen ridiculous “survival gun”.
12ga x 12ga x 9.3x74r drilling.
Wikipedia says it weighs only 7.5 lbs. Which seemeth impossible. Maybe they meant 17.5?
I once owned a Drilling. Mine (Sauer and Sohn) was 16x16x7.92R, and weighed in the same range. Some of the knockoffs or “guild guns” can be clunkers, but on the quality ones the barrels are astonishingly thin.
Sauer and Sohn made the Model 30, too.
Still hard for me to believe. The thing has a serious hunk of wood for a stock, plus 3 barrels. That said, I will let it go.
Ain’t seen 410 on the shelf in almost 5 years. Had to order it for the grandson. I’ll bet the 45 won’t group under 2” at 50yds
The last time I saw 410 it cost biggly.
Still have my old SAVAGE 24 22LR/20 gauge over/under. Also still have my H&R 410 Survivor single barrel. Back then, the H&R 410 could be re-barreled with either a 357 or 44 mag auxiliary barrel as well. Too bad that ROSSI didn’t take a leaf from the old H&R playbook, and offer auxiliary barrels in 357 mag & 44 mag, and maybe bring back the 22 Hornet in lieu of a 22 rimfire chambering. OR – Go with a 9mm option. Wish I kept my SAVAGE model 24 in 222/20 gauge, but back then the 222 was obsoleted by the 223/5.56. Would have had to reload, as nobody carried factory ammo for the 222.