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Name me the cheapest gun you can find.

Name me the worst possible handgun there is.

Now notice how those that own those guns will defend them until their final breath.

One of the guns I own is made of something akin to pewter and is coming apart. It was last fired years ago and the blast split the cylinder. Yet I was on another forum where a guy was praising what a great gun it was and is over 50 yrs old.

BTW: I gave $40 dollars for the 38 special when new with a four inch barrel back in 1966.

I know we all treasure what we have but why is it that people will pay homage to the things they know is junk?
 
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Worst I ever saw was a Clerke 1st revolver. A little 5 shot .22. Bought it at a yard sale for $5. I was robbed.
I knew it was junk when I bought it. Figured it might be fun to see how it worked.
It was a real piece of work. Front of the frame was held on by a couple of sheetmetal screws. I was so confident in it that the first time I tried to shoot it I duct taped it to a sawhorse and pulled the trigger with a string.
It actually went off one out of five times, and it didn`t even blow up.
I soldered the cylinder pin to the frame so it couldn`t be loaded (was one of those that you had to remove the cylinder to load or unload) and used it for a paper weight.
A couple of years after that I was telling the local sheriff about that little piece of junk. He asked to see it, and I ended up giving it to him.
For a year or so he had it hanging from a string on the rear view mirror of his car like fuzzy dice. Don`t know what became of it after that.
 
I once owned a Raven 25. A brother in law found it under the seat of a truck he bought and sold it to me for $10.
 
< $5 ???

OK, it isn't a handgun, but I just gotta post this: a single-shot 12 gauge shotgun for under $5. . .


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An RG30... .38 Spl revolver that a friend had. Luckily I talked him into finally disposing of it in one of those "cash for guns" exchanges, a most suitable end, he got back more than what he paid for it.

Reloading was accomplished by unscrewing what looked like the ejector rod, but was actually a base pin that held the cylinder in place like an SA revolver. After it is removed, the cylinder swung out and the rod is used to push the empties out from the front of the cylinder.

Plastic grips and looked to be made of cast pot metal painted black... a total POS.

It sounds like the one the OP describes as I remember looking it up in Gun Digest at the time and it was listed at $39.95
 
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Another vote for the Clerke .22 revolver. I think they also made a .32 center fire version.

The RG .22 short revolver gives the Clerke a run for its money.
 
Gunhacker said:
An RG30... .38 Spl revolver that a friend had. Luckily I talked him into finally disposing of it in one of those "cash for guns" exchanges, a most suitable end, he got back more than what he paid for it.

Reloading was accomplished by unscrewing what looked like the ejector rod, but was actually a base pin that held the cylinder in place like an SA revolver. After it is removed, the cylinder swung out and the rod is used to push the empties out from the front of the cylinder.

Plastic grips and looked to be made of cast pot metal painted black... a total POS.

It sounds like the one the OP describes as I remember looking it up in Gun Digest at the time and it was listed at $39.95
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Exactly right.
 
USAF385 said:
Just playing into the post. Hi Point is a good example of cheap guns a lot of people don't like but have loyal owners.
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They are heavy, ugly and cheap. But they sell the crap out of them and they really do work. They even have great customer service. That being said, I would not want one.

There are way worse guns out there. They still sell the RG's I think those are worse.
 
walnutred said:
I once owned a Raven 25. A brother in law found it under the seat of a truck he bought and sold it to me for $10.
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Raven .25 auto's are, as far as I can tell, like Smith & Wessons, in that there are good ones that go bang every time and some that don't. Some are fairly accurate, and some are not. Some last a long long time and others blow up. I have to agree with the "cheapest", aspect of the Raven, but I have owned two, of which I still own one, that is very reliable and fairly accurate, with a lot of inexpensive practice. It is my lawnmower gun. If I can't hit the snake, I can sure scare hell out of him.
I'll agree that Ravens are probably one of the cheapest guns around, but I believe that whatever model RG .22 I had one time had to be the poorest excuse for a handgun I have ever seen. I gave the dude $7.00 for it 'cause he needed a 12 pack or something. I don't know where the rounds actually went after leaving the barrel, but a lot of the lead came backward and covered my arms and face. I shot one cylinder through it and I don't even remember what I did with it after that. I think I threw it in a load of scrap metal I sold, but I can't be sure.
Cheapest: Raven .25
Junkiest: RG .22 (mine had a little tiny barrel) 1.5"
Peace,
gordon:D
 
My best friend has one of those cheap RG 22 Short revolvers for a bedside gun. He has killed at least three raccoons that were on his porch roof by shooting from his bedroom window. According to his wife, whom I believe, they were all head shots and one shot kills. Believe me, he has much nicer firearms, but for some reason he can actually hit what he's aiming at with that little pistol. At least by moonlight. That is not his home defense firearms by any means. Except maybe against marauding raccoons and opossums. And I think he paid $12 for it so he's invested more in 22 short ammo by now than he ever did in the pistol.
 
A lot of people just want a gun for self protection. They are motivated to get one by an incident in their life that causes them to fear for their safety. They don't care about caliber or brand. Cost is a major factor since they are often poor. The gun may be purchased on a payment plan from a pawn shop. They buy the gun and a box of ammo. They may (or may not) take it out to shoot before putting it in their closet or night stand. It may stay there for years. Hi Points and other low cost guns work well for this use. The cheapest gun that I ever owned was one of the .38 special pot metal copies of the double barreled derringers that were commmon 20 or so years ago. I shot maybe a box of shells through it before trading it off. It worked every time.
 
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