QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS JEFF JOHN Bridging the gap from production to custom since 1968. RZ-45 Heritage MSRP $ 1298 Striplin Custom offers a variety of upgrades for the Browning Buckmark such as the Slide Racker. One of the more clever is the 90-degree C-More sight mount, which unclutters the sighting plane. Bill currently fits Tandemkross Game Changer muzzlebrakes if desired. Photo: Striplin Custom. BUCKMARK UPGRADES I am actively looking for a Q: “rack assistant” for my semiauto pistol. My old Browning Buckmark (1990) has a tiny slide-grasping area. Is a .22 semi-auto hard to rack? Yes. If you haven’t tried it, you wouldn’t understand. I am a “bull’seye shooter” (76-years old) and I still love to shoot guns from .22 to .44 Magnum (I reload too). Have you any suggestions? Roger Mathews Prescott, AZ The slides of earlier Buckmarks can be hard to pull, especially if the hammer is down. Striplin Custom’s Slide Racker adds easy-to-use wings to the slide. With the C-More on its side, the optic window is low. Photo: Striplin Custom. You’re quite right about those A: early Buckmarks. The new Buckmarks have an improved grasping area, and there is now help for the older ones from Striplin Custom Guns called the Slide Racker. (We haven’t reviewed this product, but I may assign it sometime.) Striplin is also designing a competition barrel utilizing rapid heat dissipation technology in a lightweight design and offers many other modifications for the Browning pistol. Striplin Custom Guns 1530 S 34th St #D Fort Smith, AR 72903 (479) 883-4003 www.striplincustom.com no scope/sight mounts or rails, and I would hope you could recommend an inexpensive sight mounting kit. Phil Dahlberg Weare, NH Most Rossi barrels are drilled A: and tapped for a scope mount from the factory (there should be 4 CCO MSRP $ 1558 holes in the barrel just ahead of the chamber with tiny fill screws). If yours is so drilled, the company offers a scope base (it should be available from your Rossi dealer). Since it is a Weaver style, it should prove durable and versatile. If your barrel is not drilled and tapped, a gunsmith can easily do so and fit the base to the gun. Rossi USA 16175 NW 49 Avenue Miami Lakes, FL 33014 (305) 474-0401 www.rossiusa.com Got a burning question to ask the editor? Contact him at: E-mail: ed@gunsmagazine. com or postal at: GUNS Q&A, 12345 World Trade Dr., San Diego, CA 92128. Due to the volume of mail received, GUNS cannot offer a personal reply. With zero MIM, fully machined parts, hand-fit components and exceptional quality standards, Dan Wesson 191 1s are custom grade without the custom price tag. www.danwessonfirearms.com ROSSI SCOPE MOUNT I own a break-barrel Rossi .22 Q: LR for target shooting and small-game hunting. The rifle has decent accuracy and good range, as far as .22’s go. But one thing I find to be a problem is lackluster sights. I would like to put on an inexpensive red-dot sight for longer range target shooting and small game. However, there are 42 WWW.GUNSMAGAZINE.COM • DECEMBER 2015
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