Pic of $35 FIE Regent .38Spl revolver

[MatthewVanitas]

Follow-up on my previous thread. Here's a pic of the revo I bought along with an inexpensive classical guitar, paid $85 for the two of them. Will probably sell the guitar for $50 on Craigslist.

I fixed the cylinder pin with a screwdriver, and it seems to work pretty well. Missing the front sight, but I may just suck it up and pay the $16 to get a new one shipped out.

The one really cool thing about this piece: it has a small hole in the recoil shield, so that you can see the round in the cylinder chamber that's next up in the rotation. I hadn't seen such a thing before.

Here's a pic. The coins are a mix of Armenian, Georgian, Colombian, Venezuelan, Kiwi, etc.

-MV

 

[louisdove]

Ill buy it off you for $40 JK Id say it was well worth the $35 and given the oppurtunity would have jumped on it.

 

[MatthewVanitas]

No dice louis, good try though!

This is the second gun I've bought cheap because it was "broken". In both cases, the problem with the gun was immediately visible without even handling it, and was fixed in five seconds.

Done the same for college dorm-type furniture several times: you'd be surprised how many folks hate their "crappy, rickety furniture", just because they don't know how to use a hex wrench twice a year. Bought a nice unfinished pine living room set for a 12-pack of Natural Light. Fixed in two minutes with my hex-wrench set.

Will post either a range report, or a pic of my mangled hand, in the next couple weeks.

-MV

 

[SouthpawShootr]

Kind of ugly. It does look better than I thought it would having read your original thread. Reminds me of a starter pistol. BUT if it works reliably it's just the ticket for a self-defense type gun. I mean, would you really be upset over it being thrown in a police evidence room after an SD shooting (other than the loss of use, of course)? For $35, I don't see a downside. Good move.

 

[Confederate]

It sure brings back the memories. I have a friend who had a bunch of Saturday Night Specials. He called them his "SNiS" (pronounced snizz) collection. Anyway I used to see the FIEs and the RGs sold in pawn shops. The Raven .25ACP and the Jennings .22s also were nice little snizzes. The latter would jam occasionally, but only after shooting at least five clips through it. After that, the dirt and grime could jam it.

It NEVER jammed on my first three clips...ever.

If I had it all to do over, I'd have bought 100 of those cheap guns. Think of what they'd be worth new today.

 

[MatthewVanitas]

@ Southpaw:

Funny you should mention "starter guns". As I said before, it really reminds me of the H&R solid frames from the 70s-90s.

I believe Marlin owns H&R now, and the old machinery from the H&R revos is used to make blank-firing pistols, presumably for training bird dogs, or as starting pistols. Does anyone actually use blank-firing pistols to start races these days, or has a more PC alternative come up?

I wish Marlin would bring back those little solid-steel H&R revos in the $150 MSRP range. Crude but effective. But apparently Marlin has made some business decision to stick to less controversial products. Free market, their company, etc.

They still build a heck of a .22 lever and .22 semi...

 

[MatthewVanitas]

UPDATE


A buddy had a friend who needed a very inexpensive self-defense piece. He's a good guy, so I sold his friend the revo at-cost.

The buyer had some experience with rifles, very little with handguns.

I run into my buddy a few weeks later:

"Oh, John Q. Smith went to the range with the cheap .38 you sold him. It works okay, but it spits out the side some. I think part of it was the ammo though, the gunshop sold him some .38 Super."

???????

No idea what the heck is going on there. Can you even put .38 Super in a .38 Special?

What kind of gunshop would assume "Super" when a kid says he needs some .38 ammo? Did some clerk do it as a practical joke? The kid does look unconventional (piercings, funny hair), but it really doesn't seem even safe to sell someone the wrong ammo.

Or did my buddy misunderstand some detail from the buyer? I'll look into it further.

-MV

 

[bpisler]

Yes you can,38 super fits in my 642-2 & 10-7
but i don't fire it out of either one.I've fired
38 super from my 357mag with so-so results.