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Please post photos! This is one of the better RGs made. If they were available cheap, I'd buy three or four of them.
Rohm 66 revolver Help?
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ABitterPill
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Yes I know most rg and Rohm revolvers are bad but the .22 single actions are great little revolvers.Parts are readily available on numrich's they are under the small frame in heritage and herbert schmidt.
ABitterPill,
I will finally be one to take your side on this issue.
1. You REALLY want an RG.
2. You want to be a gunsmith and think you can fix it.
3. You ignore the advice of a lot of helpful people . . . people who probably had one back "in the day" (1970's).
You REALLY need to buy that gun. It will give you a lot of experience that you are gonna need!!!
PS: I owned one "back in the day" myself. I thought I could get a decent gun cheap.
I've always been a good pistol shot, and was in the Army at the time too. That d___n RG keyholed rounds at ten yards and wouldn't hit the broad side of a barn!
The trigger was terrible, the fit and finish? Pure RG. Of course, it finally broke, and by then I had gotten a lot of "experience" myself . . . and thus embarrassed not to let folks know what I'd been dumb enough to buy.
So . . . I took it into a good gunshop to inquire on the repair cost of the little broken spring. I figured a spring wouldn't cost much.
I waited a while so no one would see the POS that I'd bought, then unwrapped it for the store owner. Things did not go well . . .
At the top of his voice he bellowed, "HAIL SON, THAT'S A FUGGIN' RG!" He continued, "IF YOU WANT TO TELL SOMEONE YOU THREW AWAY TWENTY BUCKS, STICK A TWENTY IN THE BARREL, AND CHUCK IT IN THE RIVER!!!"
I slinked out of the store, hearing muffled laughs in the background. THIS WAS WHEN RGs were new and being sold . . . and EVERYONE at the time knew what you are refusing to believe 40 years later.
WHAT HAPPENED TO MINE . . .
Not wanting anyone to ever get hurt on it, I took a sledge hammer to it . . .
Yep, you really need to buy that one. It will teach you a lot . . . and I wish you well . . . for I had to experience this revelation myself!
BTW, the next person I asked for handgun advice was my brother (he's still a collector and has booths at gun shows). He said, "ALWAYS invest and get QUALITY when you buy a gun. After all, what is your life worth! It has to be accurate and always dependable."
So, I went out and purchased a S&W Model 65 3" . . . a gun I still have after all these years. Accurate, dependable and desirable. Best $235 I ever spent . . . and you should price what that gun is worth TODAY!
Again, buy the RG and learn . . .
I will finally be one to take your side on this issue.
1. You REALLY want an RG.
2. You want to be a gunsmith and think you can fix it.
3. You ignore the advice of a lot of helpful people . . . people who probably had one back "in the day" (1970's).
You REALLY need to buy that gun. It will give you a lot of experience that you are gonna need!!!
PS: I owned one "back in the day" myself. I thought I could get a decent gun cheap.
I've always been a good pistol shot, and was in the Army at the time too. That d___n RG keyholed rounds at ten yards and wouldn't hit the broad side of a barn!
The trigger was terrible, the fit and finish? Pure RG. Of course, it finally broke, and by then I had gotten a lot of "experience" myself . . . and thus embarrassed not to let folks know what I'd been dumb enough to buy.
So . . . I took it into a good gunshop to inquire on the repair cost of the little broken spring. I figured a spring wouldn't cost much.
I waited a while so no one would see the POS that I'd bought, then unwrapped it for the store owner. Things did not go well . . .
At the top of his voice he bellowed, "HAIL SON, THAT'S A FUGGIN' RG!" He continued, "IF YOU WANT TO TELL SOMEONE YOU THREW AWAY TWENTY BUCKS, STICK A TWENTY IN THE BARREL, AND CHUCK IT IN THE RIVER!!!"
I slinked out of the store, hearing muffled laughs in the background. THIS WAS WHEN RGs were new and being sold . . . and EVERYONE at the time knew what you are refusing to believe 40 years later.
WHAT HAPPENED TO MINE . . .
Not wanting anyone to ever get hurt on it, I took a sledge hammer to it . . .
Yep, you really need to buy that one. It will teach you a lot . . . and I wish you well . . . for I had to experience this revelation myself!
BTW, the next person I asked for handgun advice was my brother (he's still a collector and has booths at gun shows). He said, "ALWAYS invest and get QUALITY when you buy a gun. After all, what is your life worth! It has to be accurate and always dependable."
So, I went out and purchased a S&W Model 65 3" . . . a gun I still have after all these years. Accurate, dependable and desirable. Best $235 I ever spent . . . and you should price what that gun is worth TODAY!
Again, buy the RG and learn . . .
I have an RG66 that is broken in half because I dropped it onto the carpeted floor of my house from about two feet off the ground. Prior to this it had stopped functioning properly and I was going to get the parts to fix it.
I won't jump onto the band wagon and say that all RG revolvers suck because I own two RG23 revolvers that have both always worked fine and locked up properly. Basically though in my experience the RG 66 is a huge PITA to take down and reassemble, the part where the grip connects to the bulk of the frame is extremely thin and breaks easily.
I won't jump onto the band wagon and say that all RG revolvers suck because I own two RG23 revolvers that have both always worked fine and locked up properly. Basically though in my experience the RG 66 is a huge PITA to take down and reassemble, the part where the grip connects to the bulk of the frame is extremely thin and breaks easily.
Guillermo
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I cannot imagine shooting a .44 magnum revolver made of pot metal
you win the ball competition
orionengnr
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A friend recently asked me to look at/identify/evaluate his mother-in-law's collection (which had been her recently-deceased husband's guns).
He had a few shotgun, a few deer rifles, and a couple revolvers.
One was a Rohm in .44 Mag. There was something wrong with it, or something mising, as the cylinder, when opened, would move backward and fall off the crane.
I did a bit of reading on it, and ended up with the conclusion that it was probably:
a) worth <$100
b) not worth fixing, and maybe not worth selling (due to potential liability issues.
In my personal opinion, it should go to the same place that my first boo-boo purchase went--a Rossi M68 that would come unlatched after every round.
The gunsmith told me that it would cost more to fix than it was worth. I tried to provwe him wrong, but it ended up that he was right.
I got my $60 worth out of that gun--half of it by beating it into a nearly unrecognizeable mass with a sledge hammer...and the coup de grace...a watery grave in a deep cold lake.
If you have a metal detector that works in deep water, pm me, and I'll tell you where you can retrieve this treasure.
He had a few shotgun, a few deer rifles, and a couple revolvers.
One was a Rohm in .44 Mag. There was something wrong with it, or something mising, as the cylinder, when opened, would move backward and fall off the crane.
I did a bit of reading on it, and ended up with the conclusion that it was probably:
a) worth <$100
b) not worth fixing, and maybe not worth selling (due to potential liability issues.
In my personal opinion, it should go to the same place that my first boo-boo purchase went--a Rossi M68 that would come unlatched after every round.
The gunsmith told me that it would cost more to fix than it was worth. I tried to provwe him wrong, but it ended up that he was right.
I got my $60 worth out of that gun--half of it by beating it into a nearly unrecognizeable mass with a sledge hammer...and the coup de grace...a watery grave in a deep cold lake.
If you have a metal detector that works in deep water, pm me, and I'll tell you where you can retrieve this treasure.
murdoc rose
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Parts shouldn't be that hard to find as there should be enough broken ones out there to pilfer off of. The full size single actions 22s as I believe the 66 is not as bad as the small rohm pocket pistols quality wise. However for the price of fixing one you could purchase a brand new heritage with a 22 mag cylinder to boot.
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ABitterPill,
Have you got the idea yet? These guys (on this forum) won't stop until you say uncle. And I agree with them.
So tell us you changed your mind, please?
ABitterPill,
Have you got the idea yet? These guys (on this forum) won't stop until you say uncle. And I agree with them.
So tell us you changed your mind, please?
beag_nut
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Link doesn't work.
Guillermo
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worked for me
Confederate
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The .44 magnum models were made substantially better than the other guns, and it was fully designed and built to shoot the big magnums. They also were far more expensive and made of much better steel. That said, they still aren't great revolvers. They were made in a market where good .44 magnums were difficult if not impossible to buy. For a long time, you just couldn't get a good S&W .44 and this was primarily during the "Dirty Harry" days. Later, the Ruger Redhawk was introduced at $325.
Again, there were the .22s and .38s made by RG. On some of these you had to take the cylinder ejection rod out and use it to hammer out the cases after they were fired. The 66 was a .22LR cowboy gun, often chrome plated, and they had brown plastic grips that needed to be tightened after each outing. The gun was light and about the same look and feel as your toy cap guns if you grew up in the 50s and 60s. I picked mine up for $69 in a Utah pawn shop while going to college. I'd buy a couple of boxes of ammo for it every week or so and go shooting up in the canyons. It was great for shooting plastic cartons and cans.
But...for $92 I could get a NEW Ruger Standard Auto and there was no contest in quality. Even for a broke college student, the extra money was a no brainer. Still, for all the fun that I wrung from that cheap revolver, I would have considered it worth every cent if it had been stolen. Sometimes you just can't put a price tag on fun. But after switching to the Ruger auto, I also had a lot of fun with that. In fact, everyone should have one of these outstanding pistols even today. Incredible for the price and are superb self defense guns.
Anyway, despite the good time I had with my RG, I'd clearly recommend the Ruger Single-Six any day. I never would have bought mine if it weren't for the RG, though.
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