I had a good laugh the other day

[Jacob L Freeman]

A gentleman called me yesterday about my Nylon 66 in the paper. He was interested in trading an RG revolver in .38 special for it. All I knew about RGs was that they were German and cheap. I read more about them and found few kind words. I thought I would check it out anyway, since the Rem is pretty ugly, I'm not attached to it and I wanted a .38 anyhow. When I went to see his gun, it looked to be in very nice shape, but when I squeezed the trigger.... click..... click click click click click..... all on the same chamber. Sometimes it indexed, most of the time it didn't, SA or DA. He said that since my Rem was so rough looking, he couldn't trade straight across, but that if I threw in some cash, I could take the RG. He wanted to trade his $30ish junk revolver that didn't work for my perfectly functional Remington AND some cash. Ha! I declined, and bid him good day. I sure hope he didn't pay much for that paperweight.

 

[Shadow 7D]

nylon 66 200+ gun
RG, paperweight, as they unfortunately can't go negative
I know that some have ones that work, my FIL had one he picked up in W. Germany when he was stationed there. The indexing claw was a stamped piece of steel, that also worked as a spring between the two legs, in other words it was a WEAR part, and you could find a new one, but by then it was in pieces and I really didn't fell like spending that much for something worth so little.

 

[gp911]

Some people will bluff on a deal like that knowing full well they are asking for the world. The way they see it, it's all part of wheelin' & dealin'. I can't do it, but know a few that would do that & then tell the story proudly for years to come. At least you got a chuckle out of it.

 

[lemaymiami]

Since I started police work in 1973 I saw lots and lots of RG's in every condition possible down here in south Florida (and that included a fair number with noticable blood on them...). They were famous (infamous?) for the occasionally very surprising results that might occur when you pulled the trigger (at one end of the curve nothing happened at all ... at the other end it might discharge more than one round with a single trigger pull). Those guns and the usual idiots who carried them, used them, etc. were an education I'd like to forget. And that particularly goes for the little 22 revolvers that were on the street in that era.

 

[medalguy]

RG = the original Saturday Night Special. Cheap little pieces of junk that were never very safe to fire anyway. The rationale behind them was that even poor people had the right to own a gun and defend themselves, but frankly for what good they did, those folks wouild probably have done better with a good solid Louisville Slugger IMO.

 

[Claude Clay]

i have one that is LNIB so it has to be worth whatever the next buy=back is offering....

honestly it is a 5 shot 32 H&R Mag and it goes out of time every so often. .
but its ok again when we leap foward

 

[Captain Brown Beard]

This is why I get so irritated selling guns in paper ads. I was selling a Nova 12 g a while back (hint, I still am) and a guy called who was very interested. Eventually the guy makes it over to look at it, says he has no cash, but has a broken lawn mower he would be willing to trade. Yeah I bet he would.

 

[jcwit]

Hey, don't ja know, Germans always make good stuff, I heard it on TV, so it must be true.

 

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

Hey, don't ja know, Germans always make good stuff, I heard it on TV, so it must be true.

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