Parts Needed for Rohm

I found one in a deceased relatives safe. Took it apart and dropped the pieces in various parts of the Atlantic ocean. Not that you should do that, but be careful with it.

Rohm / RG are notoriously poorly built guns to the point of being dangerous. I personally wouldn't spend any money it. I'd destroy it for safety and chalk it up as a loss.

Seriously, just take a hammer to it. Them are dangerous pieces of junk. I had one in my misspent youth. It was crap back then and still is now.

Sir,

I mean no disrespect, but from experience in my youth this is an addition by subtraction equation. You are in my estimation much better off without (having responsibly destroyed the thing) than you are with.

These never should have been made and with a bit of age present nothing but a potential hazard. You have received good advice about destroying it and removing a potential negative. I do not believe they are capable of any potential positive.

This from a man who would keep a Raven .25 ACP for kicks.

Don't destroy or throw away that gun. Find a "gun buyback" program near you and take the fools for $50.

Jim

Better yet. What he said, ^^

Don't destroy or throw away that gun. Find a "gun buyback" program near you and take the fools for $50.

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This is the only reason I still have a Rohm RG38 sitting on my shelf. Just waiting for a buy back. I've had ot for 20+ years before I was stupid enough to try and fire it. DA timing was so bad it sheared the jacket off of the second round and locked up the cylinder. Cleared it and almost chucked it in the garbage can at the range.

What a beauty

Did it come with a Crown Royal bag? I swear, every RG and Rohm I've ever seen on the street was in a Crown Royal bag. For a while, I thought that's how they were shipped.

I have a Rohm deringer and an RG .22 short revovler. They are both good guns. They are cheap, for sure, but there are some practical aspects to them:

1. Take them apart, put them back together, several times. Good practice. And if you break something, no sweat. Try making a part for it (but by now, don't shoot it - remember, you're just practicing).

2. Pay no attention to those who say to deep-six them or smash them. First, have a gunsmith check it and if it's safe, shoot it to sight in, then safely store it forever, or until needed as a last resort or as a bartering item. If it's not safe, deactivate it. They make good lamp bases and paperweights.

3. If you can shoot a (safe) Rohm or RG fairly well, you can shoot just about anything. My deringer does fine at close range. My .22 short is a good (and tried) trap/turtle line gun.

Don't get me wrong, I don't put a whole lot of stock in guns of this class. But then again, I'm just trying to find a little sympathy for them.

Several years ago my grandfather got a job tearing an old hardware store down. He found a box without 5 or 6 new Rhoms in it. My brother and I broke three in a months time and my Grandfather wouldn't let us shoot the other ones because he thought they were too dangerous... No need to fix them, they simply will not hold up to shooting. I think they were made to shoot someone and ditch the gun (not really but that is what people did with them). Buybacks or just a slot in a gun collection is all they are good for. My dad use to coach track and the old starter pistols were built 10 times better than the Rhoms.

Take it completely apart and sell the parts one by one on eBay!

Lord knows there a lot of people looking for working ROHM/RG parts and they will pay top dollar for them.

You could easily get 10 times more then it's worth that way!

rc

As a starving college student pulling a hose from a heating oil delivery truck on emergency midnight deliveries, I traded a guy for a .38 Special RG back "in the day."

What an absolute and total POS it was. At ten yards the bullets would keyhole into paper! It soon broke. I took it to a leading gun store in town, and waited for traffic to die down before I quietly pulled it out to see if the store owner had a recoil spring for the piece of junk.

He held it up so all could see, and in a very loud voice that startled everyone present he roared, "Its a Gaw-wid Day-im RG. Son, if you want to tell somebody you threw away $20, stick it in a bag with twenty bucks and chuck it in the river!!!"

He said a few more choice words about the Saturday Night Special and how he wouldn't waste his time on it, then I slinked out the door!

I took it home, and INDEED, I TOOK A HAMMER TO IT and made sure nobody would ever be harmed trying to fire that piece of junk. I then separated the parts into small lots and tossed the parts away at different trash cans around town!

Don't waste any money trying to get that thing shooting again. Fill the barrel full of molten lead if you want to keep it to make sure it won't ever blow up on someone. TOTAL junk.

Did it come with a Crown Royal bag?

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Wow. I thought I was the only one who noticed this. Back in my the day, I always saw Rohms, Lorcins, & Jennings in Crown Royal bags! Gawd, brings back memories!

S&Fan - That was a good story , and well told.

I think my RG had like a 25 lb. trigger pull...seriously! And I was stronger back then, too. But s I've said before, I kind of regret not starting a Saturday Night Special collection. There were many different brands you could buy new in most pawn shops around here. I think I paid 29 or 30 dollars for my RG. NEW! Ah, those were simpler times.

1madss said:

This is the only reason I still have a Rohm RG38 sitting on my shelf. Just waiting for a buy back. I've had ot for 20+ years before I was stupid enough to try and fire it. DA timing was so bad it sheared the jacket off of the second round and locked up the cylinder. Cleared it and almost chucked it in the garbage can at the range.

What a beauty

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What the heck...I'll give you $50 for it....my Saturday Night Special collection may be a reality after all!!! That gun kind of reminds me of Charlie Brown's Christmas tree.