RG Revolvers

[needaglock]

Looked at a used one today. $100. Too much IMO. Timing was ok barely. If it busted caps, then it could really ruin a bg's day. Great sized small gun though. Smaller than a J-frame size wise. A quality piece in this size would be awesome.

[michael t]

A 100 bucks for a used one. ;P ;P Are you sure they didn't mean a 1.00 ;f

[DocHolliday]

I loved mine. It's a long story on how I got it. I'll post that in a couple of hours.

[Charlie Fox]

I had one in .22 LR years ago. Not accurate, spit lead out the sides but fun to shoot cans and dirt clods with. It ended its life broken into 5-6 pieces and thrown into a very deep and muddy river. Wow, I've never admitted to owning a crap gun before...I feel so dirty!;P ;g ^3

[DocHolliday]

I was 13, and it was the classic rite of passage to get a pistol. I had rifles, just never a pistol. Back in the 60's, my grandpa bought a Rohm 14, which was passed to my father. By this time, the blueing had worn pretty good. My dad took everything apart and put it in a tupperware box, so we could re-blue it. Well, it got forgotten for a couple of months, then I turned 13. We were going shooting in 2 days, my father brought me the box, sat it down, and said 'If you can put it together, so it functioned safe, it's yours. I didn't even have a cut away view. It was 11 o' clock the night before, that I got it together. We were going down to land that has been in my family since 1790, so it was very very special, that I was shooting on my families land, with a pistol, that was my grandfathers,then my fathers, then mine. I later graduated to a Davis,[now Cobra]380.

[walkin' trails]

Do they even make RGs anymore? I haven't seen one for a long time. I remember once firing once a revolver with a 2" barrel in .22 short. It misfired half the time. It had something like a 40 lb triggger pull and wouldn't hit a tin can three feet away. Years ago, my dad found an RG66 (.22 single action copy of the Colt Frontier) in the trash can at a range. It got tossed after the hand broke and the range staff told the guy it couldn't be fixed. I've got it now. Its the only gun I've ever seen shoot loose from dry firing. In the early '80s, a friend of mine introduced me to an acquaintance of his who considered himself a "firearms expert." The "expert" had offered his expertise to clean a neighbor's RG .38 snubby. The neighbor kept this gun to protect his small business and did not own any other guns. The firearms expert stripped the gun down to the bare frame and could not reassemble it. My friend and I took a crack at reassembling the gun, but the little .38 was missing a spring or two by that time. I never did know why this guy stripped it down. The dude found himself in a dilema. The RG's owner didn't like working without his gun nearby. The firearms expert probably didn't have $50 to buy a new .38 RG, so he had to loan the neighbor his nice 1911 until the RG could be fixed. I never heard what ultimately happended, but I suspect the RG's owner got a new 1911 for the price of an RG revolver.

[shadow_dog]

I have had 3 RG's. The first was a 38, 4 inch, bought about 1979 or 1980, it wouldn't fire about half the time. Took it back where I bought it and got a replacement, no money- just replacement, same cal and another RG. Believe it or not, it was decent and half way accurate at 20 yrds. It is at my mom and dads house today. The other was a .22 lr/mag single action convertible with I recall a 10 or 9 inch barrel.. It was fun to shoot, kinda wish I had it back. Had a grand total of $42.50 in it of 1983 dollars.

The reason I got the RG in the first place was that I needed a pistol for SD and was on a VERY VERY limited budget. If High Points had been around then I would have got one instead of the RG.

[usmctopgun]

Shadow Dog, maybe this will ease the pain of your loss.

RG 22 (http://ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=7&f=88&t=274328)

[PzGren]

I would not pay over $40 for a .22 l.r. Roehm. Roehms were made in Germany for many years as gas guns. In the 1990s a friend who is a dealer bought a drum full of guns at a law enforcement auction in Indiana. More to help him out, I bought about 7 or eight Roehms, .22 l.r. and .22 short, and a few .38 Specials. They ranged from $5 plus tax to $30.
One .38 Special Roehm had a swing out cylinder and an HKS-10 speedloader worked in it, so I took it to a local steel match. I did not win but could embarass a few guys with expensive guns. I enjoyed that but got rid of the Roehms since the quality of the gun does not allow them to be shot for a longer time without failures. Particularly the springs went bad, the trigger return spring just fell out from a single action .22.