Value drops pretty rapidly after that down to $90 - $100 in 90% and on down from there. A M68 in 100%/NIB condition runs in the $150 - $175 range. Let's hope you got a good one, as did I.Ĭurrent RETAIL values for the Rossi handguns is not high. 357 Magnum Model 971VRC (vented rib compensated) and I found it to be an excellent revolver with respect to action, trigger pull, accuracy and polished stainless finish.įrom what I read - second hand knowledges is dangerous - Rossi hand gun quality is hit or miss. Not much else to tell - except I would be leary of using +P ammo. 38SPL, offered with 2 or 3" barrel, blued or Nickel finish, wood or rubber grips and discontinued in 1998. Your piece looks to be a Model 68 - 5 shot.
From its 210000 range serial number, it was manufactured in 1974. 5 SHOT, 2 PAIRS OF GRIPS, WOOD & SYNTHETIC, 3' BARREL, DOUBLE ACTION. From its service domicile in the Caribbean comes this attractive Rossi tribute to the Smith & Wesson Chief’s Special Revolver.
3.0 AMADEO ROSSI 38 SPECIAL HAND GUN 'PISTOL'. The Rossi revolvers gained quite a bit from that prior association as S&W engineers were sent to the Rossi plant to improve their revolvers lines and what came out of that was a South American made copy of the "1950s-60s" S&W lock work. View sold price and similar items: AMADEO ROSSI 38 SPECIAL REVOLVER HANDGUN & GRIPS from Imperial Auction on Invalid date EST. Thus, the Rossi would be 149 A nice and lower priced used 5 shot revolver I can suggest is the M85 Taurus 38 Special, used ones run about 199 Serial number dates the revolver to 1961 the real early rossi's were called the puma and most had a picture of a jumping puma in a semi-circle 357 Magnum models under the Rossi name, manufactured in.
Amadeo Rossi & Cia - Brazilian firearms manufacturer - now part of the conglomerate (BRAZTECH) that also owns TAURUS - at one time part of the conglomerate (BANGOR PUNTA) that also owned Smith & Wesson. Have a 38 special Rossi amadeo also made in Brazil and is a revolver with The Garcia Corr Wash DC when would this have been made Wiki User.