One last post about the revolvers I ran across while on vacation in North Georgia. I was wrong about the value of the Model of 1899 . I bought the K38 Target Masterpiece I asked about. At the same store where I bought the K38 they had for sale a Rohm 22 Short revolver. They are asking the princely sum of $29.49. My Mother in Law has one of these little jewels. I never worked up the nerve to shoot it. Probably the best thing you could do with it is toss it to the crook and hope he is dumb enough to pull the trigger! Any of you ever shot one or have one? Anyway I enjoyed the mountains, waterfalls, and the old Smiths. Good to have a wife patient enough to follow me around looking at guns.

I had an RG 10 which is about the same .22 short. I paid $10 for it almost 35 years ago and would fire cartridges about 75% of the time. I kept it in a tackle box, shot a large mudfish with it from 4" away. I dropped it in a local lake maybe 3 years after I bought it, didn't bother to go after it. Joe

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I had one about 15 years ago bought it to tinker with figuring if I could get it to fire at all it would be a miracle. I never did biggest piece of junk any company ever made.

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I have one that belonged to my father. I have no interest in shooting it.

"Saturday night special" for sure. I have one that belonged to my mother. She bought it around 1967 during a lot of civil unrest to carry in her purse. Totally unreliable junk. Haven't shot it since I was a teenager. If I recall it fired about every other pull of trigger. I just keep it because it belonged to her. Should probably dismantle and throw away the pieces.

I have a Rohm 63 22lr that I bought in 1971. I'm pretty sure the price was $27.95. I put several hundred rounds through it. It was decently accurate and never failed to fire in single action mode. Double action was a bit dicey tho.

Still have it, but haven't fired it since about 1981. That was the first handgun I ever owned, but it did lead to bigger and better things.

I was a rookie cop in the late ‘60s and these Rohm .22 short revolvers were used and carried by bad guys all over our city, and were responsible for many shootings and murders. All of them seized as evidence were destroyed by court order when the suspect was convicted.

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LEO (Ret.)

Shot one and it shaved lead like a big dog.

got one, RG short, pinto, cut off 22lr lead to fit in chamber, worked, could hit a qt. oil can at 10ft, what could want for $8.49 in 1956. at 16 teen you could do dumb stuff and get away with it.

Rohm; the gun everyone loves to hate!

My mom is moving out of her house, and a few weeks ago she gave this .22 short RG10 to me. I didn't even know she had it. Apparently it belonged to my dad. I shot it some in my basement. It seems reliable and shoots fairly close to point of aim at 15'; a little high and left.

It came with a holster.

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Many years ago I bought a RG .22lr revolver from a co-worker for $10. Usually about four of the six rounds would actually fire, but it shot patterns rather than groups. I was lucky if I could keep all the shots on a 8" bullseye at 7 yards.
There was method to my madness. A week later I took it to a gun buy back and swapped it for $75 worth of grocery and gas gift certificates.

At $29.49 I would buy it. I could get more money in return at one of the California buy backs.

Ahh yes, RG revolvers. My old partner and I used to say it stood for "Real Good".

I had one sixty years ago, in college. It always fired, but the only safe place was behind it.

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Oh well, what the hell.

I don't have an RG in .22 Short, but I do have one in .44 Magnum!
Model 29-2 and its Spanish, American and German cousins

The gun store where I worked in my teenage years kept a few Rohms and RGs in stock for those who wanted a cheap gun. The store also kept the remaining pieces of one that had blown up along with the new ones in the display case, just so customers understood what they were getting for their $12.95. Most customers ultimately opted for a more expensive S&W, Colt, or Beretta.

No way in the world would I ever attempt to shoot one of those crude hunks of pot metal!

I currently have the RG 12 2.5" in 22 Short and another in LR that is 4" both work fine and shoot much better than inspected! I was taking out a opossum in town early one morning using 22 short standard velocity ammo, I waited for a transit bus to come buy to cover the sound. That was pointless, it sounded like a cannon going off in the wee hours of the morning. At the farm house I used the long rifle 4" to take out several raccoons just fine!

If Standard velocity short is too fast and loud at 1085 fps, try CB Short at 735 fps! (It will probably still be loud by silenced standards!)

Ivan

My LGs has two in stock ...one is $65 out the door and the other with more finish is about $95 otd

OK, I will admit it... I own one. Bought it used at a local gun show probably 25+ years ago for $19.95 out the door. It's intended purpose was a tackle box gun and it did that job just fine.

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That sounds about right in today's market.

I rember in magazines back in 50-60s there were similar little
revolvers in the classifieds. I remember one called the IMP
that went $4.99. These give the H&Rs, IJs, ect that have been
termed Saturday Night Specials and rung up. They are about
as next to nothing as you can get.

I had bought guns from law enforcement auctions by the shoe box in the mid nineties and there were several Roehms among them, ranging from defective to very well working guns. The .22 short revolvers were usually the worst guns by design and functionality.

Among the Roehms that were actually very good was a four inch .38 Special with a swing out cylinder that worked with HKS10 speedloaders.

I used that gun in a club steel match and still made A class with it.

When I was a teenager back in the late 50s to early 60s these things
were everywhere. The famous RG10 .22 Short. I had one when I was
about 17 years old and was happy to own it. It was, after all, an honest
to goodness real handgun even if not much of one. I don't remember it
ever misfiring. It wasn't long before I traded it off for something else,
can't remember what now. I would buy one today if I saw a functional
one for a decent price just because. The RG10 was cheap and served
a purpose.

Is Rohm and RG the same manufacturer? I believe it was an RG that Hinkley used in his assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.

^^^Yes and yes.

That gun ROCKS!!! :-)