I'm from California and I got arrested for watching this video a few months ago just came back to say how much I liked it. I'll be right back I'm getting arrested again for commenting. It was worth it though
Man, I must be getting old. I remember buying RG revolvers for $25 from people needing rent/gas money...Had a dresser drawer full of them and used them for trade material. I also used to buy .22 ammo for .98 a box
Those prices on the .22 boxes made me laugh! I remember going into the old Ames Department store years ago and buying boxes of .22 LR for $.95 each, or a brick of 500 for $9.00.
Yep, when I was a teenager you could get those boxes of 50 22LR for 1.50$ or so in a convenience store just about anywhere. I've shot I don't know how many thousands of them. 🤓🍻
In 2002 I bought a A K 47 sitting infront of a gun store in fl. I was there buying exploding .38 cal bullets . A man in a city fire department jacket walked out with a A.K and a 5 gallon bucket of steal cased 7.62*.39 bullets I got all of that for 300$
That RG is the unicorn of Saturday night specials... it's worth about $150 in 2022... my.. how times have changed.. And yes there are people who collect those old RG's...
@Infandous Ktenology he got 2 old decent pocket pistols, a super nice plinker and a bunch of old ammo all for a boring overpriced glock. Definitely a win.
Oh man! TG&Y! I grew up in New Mexico and I remember my mom taking me there on a Saturday. They were like a Walmart, had everything there. But the store was much smaller. Brings back memories. Thanks for sharing.
The best part is pulling out each piece and box of ammo and think about all those little details...why was this gun bought? Was it a Christmas gift? ...was that ammo bought for a camping and shooting trip? Good times
Watching you sift through it all brought back memories, especially the .22 box. I had the same confusion when I was going through my gramps ammo. Its .22wrf, old timey ammo used in the Winchester model 1890. I found .357 s&w, .38 special, .44 mag. Old price tag on a box of 100 .22lr was .99c in the 70s. What a time to stock up.
My grandad collected a few rifles. Some were muzzle loaders, others looked like the mosan nagant. Although, I wasn't old enough to possess them, when he had to move, so he just sold them.
I remember getting the box of "Golden Bullets" when they came in what looked like a small milk carton. 500 for 12 bucks or so. It would last a couple of weeks. Good times! 🤓🍻
I have a 30 pound box of my mom's baseball cards, alot unopened still with the gum.. my uncle... had stamps, I have both boxes, probably worth a nice bit
The Masked Survivor I bought another house 5 years ago, and some electricians do work in the attick, it was full of sports cards in boxes, some were pretty old , but most were from the 70's and 80's , the electrician was more concerned with the cards than his job . someday I'll go through them , when i have a week or 2 to do it in....lol.
I have one. of those Ruger MK ll pistols I had bought in the early 80's still with the box. Fun to shoot and never had it jam or fail to work! I loved seeing one in a video!
Holy crap, talk about a blast from the past. I'm 29 years old and when I was 8 my dad had went through a horrible divorce from his wife and I went through hell to end up with him. Because of all of this my dad was absolutely going through a midlife crisis and he did everything he could to make sure my brother and I were happy since we just went from a big family with 4 kids down to us 2 on 40 acres and no one for miles. Things weren't great but we didn't suffer. Being a kid and doing what kids do I snuck into my dad's room one day and did some looking. I found a brand new box of broadheads and a bolt action 22LR. When asked what I wanted for Christmas I described that black 22LR and a new box of broadheads for deer season. My dad obviously knew but didn't say anything. When I opened up that box with that .22 in it I was in heaven. It came with 4 500 count bricks of Winchester Wildcat ammo. I burned through those in maybe a week and when we went to Wal-Mart to get more I would clean them out, 1. Because a BRICK was $8.00 before tax and a 50 round box was .50 cents. When they went up to $10.00 a brick and .75 cents a box I felt like that was wayyyy too high. Now when I see 325 count boxes selling for $75 - $100 a box I can't believe it. I live in a decent sized town (70,000 people before the massive tornado) and there was only one shop here that consistently had .22 ammo and it was all around $100.00 a box. It turns out that the gun shop owner would send people out every day to buy all the .22 ammo they could and bring it back so he could sell it for a markup. I was at academy one night and ran into some of these guys, I knew exactly what they were doing and I admittedly played a big roll in what happened by opening my mouth and saying that what they're doing was pretty shitty. There were quite a few people in there and no one was really happy about what had been going on so these guys were getting a lot of grief. When I left the store these 2 guys were circled by a group of guys who let them know exactly how they felt and what was going to happen. The guys could either sell the ammo for what they paid for it, or they could lose the ammo right there and they could handle things a different way. From what I overheard, these guys made their money back, sold all that ammo, and basically swore to god that they would never do that again and they only did it because they made $10.00 off of each box. It was pretty sketchy but it put an end to that issue. I ran over 50,000 rounds of .22LR through that gun, I actually wore a hole in the bolt, but due to the price of ammo I haven't bought a box in store for almost 10 years. Seeing that Winchester Wildcat really took me back to being a kid 21 years ago.
I don’t blame you one bit. We had 4 or 5 guys doing the exact same thing in our area. I had a ginormous stock of .22 built up before the Obama administration started buying up all the .22 LR ammo. How do I know the government was buying up all the .22lR ammo. I have a very good friend who works in procurement for the U.S.Army. He said they were getting 20 to 30 pallets of plain white boxes of 22lR a week. He told me that in 2015 they had in storage over 55 million .22 LR rounds. He said that the Army had developed a way to use them as a means of shooting them through the m16 a4. When he retired in 2017 they had no longer been getting the shells however they had not moved any of them out also. He said that he had been told that they were buying up the ammo to try to curb gun violence. As we all know every big criminal always uses a .22LR in all of their crimes. To make a long story short these 5 guys would go in right when the ammo would come in and buy all of the shells that they could get their hands on. Then that night like clockwork they would put them on Facebook. Yes I know Facebook doesn’t allow guns and ammunition to be sold using their service, yeah right. It goes on every day, still does. They had paid maybe 65 dollars for a brick of .22 LR. Then turn around and sell them for 100 to 125 a brick. Us moderators and admin decided that about 8 months before the election that they got booted off of every sportsmen page on Facebook plus we got the word out to everyone in our area who they were and what they were doing. Like any good set of neighbors do if one of us would go to Texas or Arkansas. We’d pick up a bunch of shells. Then we’d sell them to our friends at a small profit. Like .25 cents a box or 5 dollars a brick higher just to pay for our time and gas money. After President Trump got elected .22LR. Started showing up again at fairly good prices. I heard one of the guys got stuck with 9000 dollars worth of .22 shells that is now worth about 2500 dollars. I hope he chokes on them. Reason number 302 while I’ll never vote for a liberal again. True story. Look it up it’s right here on TH-cam.
The Mohawk .22 shells were made for a few years around the early to mid 1970s. They were cheap .22 shells for people who just wanted to shoot their .22. They were replaced by the wildcat .22s as the ammo of choice for plinkers on a very tight budget and all they wanted was something that went down the barrel of their .22.
My grandfather is getting unhealthy and can’t shoot anymore. He passed on his gun collection to me. Nothing outrageous but some cool guns none the less. An old Stevens single barrel shotgun. (I think that’s how you say it). I got a few old semi automatic 1970s .22lr’s. Couple of those 25 pocket handguns. And a Lee enfield
My Dad left me his 1911. I still bet my life on my high-cap 9 but I take apart my 1911, at least, once a day, just to marvel at the genius it took to design. John Moses Browning really had his shit together.
Cool my grandfather he was a first class sergeant in the United States 75th rangers in ww2 he got 2 bring tons of guns home if you believe me on this or not I don't give a damn but he brought back 2 mg42s and a lot of other german and Italian weapons
well-quite a find! your "RG31" is actually made in germany(but assembled in the us if after1982/83) a simple but very sturdy gun of german design by roehm companie of sontheim, w. germany
Pops Quest+ That was a good move to swap the barrel out of your 27 for a 9mm I did that with my 23C. Did you just change the barrel or did you also do the ejector and other parts? Regardless of the parts, how did it run, did you put a lot of ammo through it? I've heard people having good luck with and without swapping out all the correct parts to change caliber from .40 to 9mm. Thanks for the video, I love digging through old stuff like that. My fiance's great, great uncle will be 104 this spring, he was born in 1915 and was 14 when the STOCK MARKET CRASHED IN 1929 AND STARGED THE GREAT DEPRESSION! In World War 2 he was in the Air Force, stationed in England and he was a sheetmetal fabricator and he repaired the bomber planes when they came back to base and had body damage from getting shot at in the midway. He has 10 acres on his property, along with 2 garages, 2 polebarns and 2 barns, he owns about 8 vintage tractors from 1930's-60's and he built a good size machine shop in one of his polebarns! Very cool man, indeed! I could listen to his stories all day long!
I had an RG-32 revolver exactly like yours. I recognized it immediately when you took it out by the plastic grips and the push-rod. It was a good little shooter. I bought it from a guy at a filling station for very little $ but I enjoyed it. After a few years, my house was burglarized and some low-life stole it. I miss the little shooter!
The "RG" stands for "Röhm"? Its a German gun company (I am from Germany too) and was always known for good quality until hey got bought by UMAREX like 10 Years ago. I had some Röhm Blank Guns (thanks to german laws i don't have real ones) and i never had Problems with them. But I know that Röhm also made some junk like the little Röhm .22 short revolver. But Im pretty sure the .38 is a solid gun. Not the best .38 but also absolutely not the worst.
Not with my age. Im 22 so I am only allowed to have .22lr guns. No centerfire ammunition and guns. You can own like .38 special, 9mm, .308 ... With 25 years of age and proper license.
Germany makes excellent guns. If I were to buy a gun that I know is solid quality and well designed and if I saw made in Germany on it, I would buy it. You need only to look at the Mauser 98. To this day it is the standard that all bolt action rifles are compared to. Oh yeah, here in America we copied so many things from the Mauser 98 for our 1903 Springfields that we had to pay patent use fees to Germany.
Excellent haul. The .22 is a great high quality small game and target gun. IIRC the RG was not a bad pocket revolver that should get the job done. The Raven well I am not sure I would feel comfortable carrying it with a fish in the tube but still a fun little pop gun that could still cause some ouchie. good ammo haul. good trade.
Pretty sweet. I inherited a little grab bag from father in law. Mossberg 500 with gold trigger wood stock, a Dan Wesson 357 , a Ruger 22/45, a Model 77 I think it is , synthetic .22 Rifle. I think this is Remington.
My first pistol was an RG .38 exactly like that. Got it from an old bailiff with some +P wadcutters. The only info I found was that they were intended to be cheap throwaway backups. Not the most accurate but really fun to shoot.
Love the Glock 23 ! To me its the perfect carry handgun. I love and trust the 40 cal round. Just above the 9mm and just under the 45 cal. Great stopping power. Just my opinion, doesn't mean its the right carry weapon for everyone, just me.
I have been shooting a Ruger MKII since 1981! K Mart had those bricks of Wild Cat .22 rf. on sale for $5.00 a brick of 500. That was in the mid 1980's. I think I may have a box or 2 still around. So yes I remember those prices. lol
I remember going to a store in Kansas city called wild woodies, and we could get a brick of 22 long rifle for $2.50. We would go to our grandmother's farm in south Missouri target shooting and squirrel hunting.
Cool video. I'd be careful with that 38 it looks like it might just come apart at any time it decides it want's to. I'd say the best thing in your bag would be the Mark 2. Good score.
I have the same model Ruger MKII. Excellent gun. Most reliable..22 auto I've ever owned. Can't easily find these guns any more of the second hand market. Especially LNIB like that. Congrats.
That .22WRF is different from .22 Long Rifle and .22 Magnum. It can't be fired in either caliber gun, as .22 WRF is a "specialty" chambering, and no guns have been made for that round since the 1960s. The RG "Rohm" revolver - I wouldn't shoot anything other than wadcutter ammo in it because those guns had Aluminum frames, and the metal used wasn't great quality. Getting mags for that Raven .25 shouldn't be much trouble.
Kevin S. The 22 Magnum read[22 Winchester Rim Fire magnum] is the longer version of the Winchester Rim Fire which is no longer produced. It can be fired in the W.R.F.M. chamber but will cause throat erosion
I remember remington .22's at $.050 a box. I bought .22 Lr for $8 and change for a brick of 500 back in the early to mid 90's. Prices went up fast, and will probably never come back down.
The third pistol you pulled out isn't manufactured very well! The slide is cast and can over heat easy! Mine blew up on me while shooting it! So if you shoot it. Just peck around with it. Don't empty the clip 10 times in a row lol
This is history every grandpa & great-grandpa wished they could pass down. Thanks for sharing it was very exciting looking at what’s next & that Mark II alone was worth the trade as far as value IMHO.
Only a Glock fanboy would think you lost in that deal.. you definitely came out on top regardless of what generation ( new and improved again) Glock it was.
spent a lot of my young life in a TG&Y store looking at guns and knives just a dreaming while Mom shopped. mowed a ton of lawns one summer and bought a Western Bowie Knife i still have it and it still looks new. worth way more than i paid for it now.
mark 2 is a great gun for many uses, targets especially.The .22 Magnum (WMR) is based on a lengthened .22 WRF case. Revolvers and single shot rifles chambered for the .22 Mag. can usually shoot .22 WRF ammo without a problem. However, magazine fed .22 Magnum repeaters often will not feed the shorter .22 WRF cartridge correctly.Dupont didn't own the Remmington brand,fully until about1980.Mostly,they only made the ammo. Mark 2 with box, best part of deal. I love the mark series.
rchopp sorry but back when you couldn’t find 22 LR ammo I’ve seen it go up to $100.00 a brick at gun show’s. Yes back I late 90’s you get a brick for $7.99 and under on sale. And I bought 22LR for c .49.
ruger mark 1 till 4 are made from 1949 till 1982, 1983 or 1984 and the ruger is pretty rare from what i've heard. and what do you pay now for a box? 6 to 8 bucks for the 1,77$ box?
Cool little score. Other than the moisture ingress that seems apparent. Doesn't look like they've been in a controlled environment. I think older ammo is/was made to hold up better though.
Just looked it up and yes it was Lennon's death that your thinking of. This RG was actually original "sat night special" example used in the justification of freedom stealing the Brady bill. these are cool lil fun revolvers. I had a tiny rg 22 one thing to watch one for the safetty mechanisn notch they have is often worn meaning it's like an old single action even tho it has a floating firing pin so check this before you load all and carry on all 6
Worked at a gun shop in the mid-70s which started as a muzzle loader supply. When we moved into modern guns, cheap ones always sold the best. I haven't seen a Raven 25 or an RG snub since those days, but we sold a mess of them!
Wad cutters are the best thing to shoot. It's just ole school low powder charge low bullet weight target rounds.. Cops used them by the dozens back in the day to practice shoot
Jake, a .22 revolver is almost foolproof. Only thing that can really go wrong is ammo. Get a dud, you just pull the trigger again. .22 autos can be finicky as hell. You might have to try a dozen different types of ammo to find one that runs correctly and reliably. Then you have duds and jams you have to clear, like with any auto, it can happen. Every outdoorsman, hunter, hiker, angler, or camper should get a .22 revolver. I've had H&R, S&W, Ruger, High Standard, and even an RG. They're just plain fun, too!
Howdy, I just discovered your videos. RG Industries is why Florida has a "Saturday Night Special" law. The one I had was aluminum and the cylinder stop was made to break. On occasion, the cylinder would not rotate completely and the bullet would discharge into the side of the barrel and possible remove part of your hand. It will work but just be careful.
That ruger isn't bad. I think you came out on top of this deal, I'd rather have that bag over the glock. Too bad it wasn't a government target model with the bull barrel, I have one and love it, for a .22 handgun with iron sights at a gun club I go to I can easily knock down bowling pins from 50 yards with 1 shot per pin. The ammo isn't extremely old unfortunately, a couple of those boxes might be worth throwing on a shelf. Some odd but decent burner guns you acquired from this deal.
I think you got the better end of the deal. Those Ruger Mark IIs are fun little guns. I have one and it's one of my favorite to shoot. The brake down can suck thought.
you better check again. that Ruger will cost you the $550 you say the Glock is worth. seeing that both are used the Ruger is still worth more and will last and shoot forever.
Unboxing a loaded 38 interesting. Donr know much about it but it said Miami FL on it. I may be mistaken but that may have been the company that turned into Universal that made the 30 carbine in the 60s 70s and 80s
The Ruger is a great little plinking & target gun. The RG, (short for Röhm Gesellschaft) is half-a-step above a Saturday night special.... A German cheap import revolver that was killed off by the gun control act of 1986. The Raven P-25 *is* the poster child of Saturday night specials, in the brutal caliber of .25 ACP....and only accurate as far as you can throw it.
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I'm from California and I got arrested for watching this video a few months ago just came back to say how much I liked it. I'll be right back I'm getting arrested again for commenting. It was worth it though
DOGBUTT BUTTOFDOG get the hell out of that shit hole state.
Bullshit
Rick DeWitt Pretty sure it was a joke...
Rick DeWitt
The joke.
Your head.
hahaha fucking classic
Man, I must be getting old. I remember buying RG revolvers for $25 from people needing rent/gas money...Had a dresser drawer full of them and used them for trade material. I also used to buy .22 ammo for .98 a box
Nah, it’s just that the price’s go up faster and higher per s e c o u n d
Are you sure your dad wasnt a gangster? a lot of "drop" guns and ammo there. lol
LOL, he might have been! Always kept us fed and a roof over head!
Thats all that matters at the end of the day
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Seriously, except for the Ruger, these scream "Guns you fire ONCE, then dump in the freshly-poured cement at one of your boss's contruction sites..."
Say what you want about Saddam Hussein. But he kept a roof over his families head and that is ALL that matters...
Those prices on the .22 boxes made me laugh! I remember going into the old Ames Department store years ago and buying boxes of .22 LR for $.95 each, or a brick of 500 for $9.00.
Surprised anyone remembered Ames
Yep, when I was a teenager you could get those boxes of 50 22LR for 1.50$ or so in a convenience store just about anywhere. I've shot I don't know how many thousands of them. 🤓🍻
I remember Ames and Zayre when I was stationed in Virginia Beach back in the 90’s.
In 2002 I bought a A K 47 sitting infront of a gun store in fl. I was there buying exploding .38 cal bullets . A man in a city fire department jacket walked out with a A.K and a 5 gallon bucket of steal cased 7.62*.39 bullets I got all of that for 300$
Yep, on sale 10$ per brick Rinks Bargain City.
Your pop never by any chance went by the nickname of "The Iceman" did he? Lol
The Rooster 😂😂😂
The hitman
Made a movie about that
Mississippi Ditch Fisher I wouldn’t either 😂
Old Ted 😂😂😂
That second gun is the definition of a Saturday night special!
Thats what I thought I had a flash back to God father the game when luca gives you it
That RG is the unicorn of Saturday night specials... it's worth about $150 in 2022... my.. how times have changed..
And yes there are people who collect those old RG's...
Keep those throw away guns ....you know.....just in case.
J Neely just in case
Just in case 😂😂😂
Foreal he over here worried about prices and shit
Just in case
Put em in a case labeled Justin
You got the better deal just from that ruger target pistol..
@Infandous Ktenology he got 2 old decent pocket pistols, a super nice plinker and a bunch of old ammo all for a boring overpriced glock. Definitely a win.
@@mikeeaston4431 i think he was just hookin his dad up with a new gun and he just gave him the shit he didnt use
The local cabelas has a ruger mk2 for 385 I think and its just the black one his is stainless which should up the price
Infandous Ktenology I got a glock 19 gen 4.....did I screw up??
@@MyTardisGoWhoosh na there good guns i have one id walk into a war with it
I found all sorts of weird shit when dad passed away, lots of ammo from the 60s and 70s and it all works great ! nice haul brother man
BigMeat Sunday any gold silver?
A lot of the ammo you BUY today,,only lasts a yr or two..something else Obama came up with,,sad, huh
old ammo cant be traced, would not be putting that out there. Bad people always find a way.
No use for lazy people None. Explain please!
Rob Charuk ammo doesn't bad if it's stored properly new or old. That person who told you that is what they call a wack job.
Oh man! TG&Y! I grew up in New Mexico and I remember my mom taking me there on a Saturday. They were like a Walmart, had everything there. But the store was much smaller. Brings back memories. Thanks for sharing.
The best part is pulling out each piece and box of ammo and think about all those little details...why was this gun bought? Was it a Christmas gift? ...was that ammo bought for a camping and shooting trip? Good times
Dog if it did, it would be lying in the bottom of a river or lake somewhere
Watching you sift through it all brought back memories, especially the .22 box. I had the same confusion when I was going through my gramps ammo. Its .22wrf, old timey ammo used in the Winchester model 1890. I found .357 s&w, .38 special, .44 mag. Old price tag on a box of 100 .22lr was .99c in the 70s. What a time to stock up.
Does every dad have one of these bags full of ancient ammo and a mysterious pocket pistol?
Mine does 😂😂😂
nope in the UK
grandpa has a old soviet Tokarev, I thought all old people have old ass guns.
Range Ryder No but it’s the type of bag every dad can only wish they could pass down generations!
My grandad collected a few rifles. Some were muzzle loaders, others looked like the mosan nagant. Although, I wasn't old enough to possess them, when he had to move, so he just sold them.
I remember getting the box of "Golden Bullets" when they came in what looked like a small milk carton. 500 for 12 bucks or so. It would last a couple of weeks. Good times! 🤓🍻
Looking at old ammo boxes today makes me reminisce to when I was a kid looking at old baseball cards. Good stuff Pops.
I have a 30 pound box of my mom's baseball cards, alot unopened still with the gum.. my uncle... had stamps, I have both boxes, probably worth a nice bit
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I bought another house 5 years ago, and some electricians do work in the attick, it was full of sports cards in boxes, some were pretty old , but most were from the 70's and 80's , the electrician was more concerned with the cards than his job . someday I'll go through them , when i have a week or 2 to do it in....lol.
I have one. of those Ruger MK ll pistols I had bought in the early 80's still with the box. Fun to shoot and never had it jam or fail to work! I loved seeing one in a video!
i saw the title, and i was like.. "whats a pop-a-glock?" ahahah
Same I even went and looked it up
aj pass me too 😂
Lol I thought the same thing!!!!
aj pass Same haha
Just say no to glocksuckers.
Holy crap, talk about a blast from the past. I'm 29 years old and when I was 8 my dad had went through a horrible divorce from his wife and I went through hell to end up with him. Because of all of this my dad was absolutely going through a midlife crisis and he did everything he could to make sure my brother and I were happy since we just went from a big family with 4 kids down to us 2 on 40 acres and no one for miles. Things weren't great but we didn't suffer. Being a kid and doing what kids do I snuck into my dad's room one day and did some looking. I found a brand new box of broadheads and a bolt action 22LR. When asked what I wanted for Christmas I described that black 22LR and a new box of broadheads for deer season. My dad obviously knew but didn't say anything. When I opened up that box with that .22 in it I was in heaven. It came with 4 500 count bricks of Winchester Wildcat ammo. I burned through those in maybe a week and when we went to Wal-Mart to get more I would clean them out, 1. Because a BRICK was $8.00 before tax and a 50 round box was .50 cents. When they went up to $10.00 a brick and .75 cents a box I felt like that was wayyyy too high. Now when I see 325 count boxes selling for $75 - $100 a box I can't believe it. I live in a decent sized town (70,000 people before the massive tornado) and there was only one shop here that consistently had .22 ammo and it was all around $100.00 a box. It turns out that the gun shop owner would send people out every day to buy all the .22 ammo they could and bring it back so he could sell it for a markup. I was at academy one night and ran into some of these guys, I knew exactly what they were doing and I admittedly played a big roll in what happened by opening my mouth and saying that what they're doing was pretty shitty. There were quite a few people in there and no one was really happy about what had been going on so these guys were getting a lot of grief. When I left the store these 2 guys were circled by a group of guys who let them know exactly how they felt and what was going to happen. The guys could either sell the ammo for what they paid for it, or they could lose the ammo right there and they could handle things a different way. From what I overheard, these guys made their money back, sold all that ammo, and basically swore to god that they would never do that again and they only did it because they made $10.00 off of each box. It was pretty sketchy but it put an end to that issue. I ran over 50,000 rounds of .22LR through that gun, I actually wore a hole in the bolt, but due to the price of ammo I haven't bought a box in store for almost 10 years. Seeing that Winchester Wildcat really took me back to being a kid 21 years ago.
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I don’t blame you one bit. We had 4 or 5 guys doing the exact same thing in our area. I had a ginormous stock of .22 built up before the Obama administration started buying up all the .22 LR ammo. How do I know the government was buying up all the .22lR ammo. I have a very good friend who works in procurement for the U.S.Army. He said they were getting 20 to 30 pallets of plain white boxes of 22lR a week. He told me that in 2015 they had in storage over 55 million .22 LR rounds. He said that the Army had developed a way to use them as a means of shooting them through the m16 a4. When he retired in 2017 they had no longer been getting the shells however they had not moved any of them out also. He said that he had been told that they were buying up the ammo to try to curb gun violence. As we all know every big criminal always uses a .22LR in all of their crimes. To make a long story short these 5 guys would go in right when the ammo would come in and buy all of the shells that they could get their hands on. Then that night like clockwork they would put them on Facebook. Yes I know Facebook doesn’t allow guns and ammunition to be sold using their service, yeah right. It goes on every day, still does. They had paid maybe 65 dollars for a brick of .22 LR. Then turn around and sell them for 100 to 125 a brick. Us moderators and admin decided that about 8 months before the election that they got booted off of every sportsmen page on Facebook plus we got the word out to everyone in our area who they were and what they were doing. Like any good set of neighbors do if one of us would go to Texas or Arkansas. We’d pick up a bunch of shells. Then we’d sell them to our friends at a small profit. Like .25 cents a box or 5 dollars a brick higher just to pay for our time and gas money. After President Trump got elected .22LR. Started showing up again at fairly good prices. I heard one of the guys got stuck with 9000 dollars worth of .22 shells that is now worth about 2500 dollars. I hope he chokes on them. Reason number 302 while I’ll never vote for a liberal again. True story. Look it up it’s right here on TH-cam.
Great stories . Sounds like you had a healthy childhood after all .
Tommy Bear thanks for sharing your great story.
sniperdoug1969 100% bullshit dude
The Mohawk .22 shells were made for a few years around the early to mid 1970s.
They were cheap .22 shells for people who just wanted to shoot their .22. They were replaced by the wildcat .22s as the ammo of choice for plinkers on a very tight budget and all they wanted was something that went down the barrel of their .22.
They still make the Mohawk ammo
My grandfather is getting unhealthy and can’t shoot anymore. He passed on his gun collection to me. Nothing outrageous but some cool guns none the less. An old Stevens single barrel shotgun. (I think that’s how you say it). I got a few old semi automatic 1970s .22lr’s. Couple of those 25 pocket handguns. And a Lee enfield
My Dad left me his 1911. I still bet my life on my high-cap 9 but I take apart my 1911, at least, once a day, just to marvel at the genius it took to design.
John Moses Browning really had his shit together.
Stevens shotgun.. they are pretty cool really old tho they got bought out by savage in the late 1800s but good gun
Cool my grandfather he was a first class sergeant in the United States 75th rangers in ww2 he got 2 bring tons of guns home if you believe me on this or not I don't give a damn but he brought back 2 mg42s and a lot of other german and Italian weapons
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Lee enfield is nice
*Looks down barrel*
"Annnnd that's loaded. yepp that's loaded."😂
You dont have to look down a barrel to see if a revolver is hot.
Violated the first rule of gun safety. Stay away from him at the range.
The Ruger was a great find, may have some collector value. The revolver and the Raven .25 however, are Saturday night specials
well-quite a find! your "RG31" is actually made in germany(but assembled in the us if after1982/83) a simple but very sturdy gun of german design by roehm companie of sontheim, w. germany
It's the unicorn for RG collectors... and yes, we do exist... lol
*Drooling over those 22 Collecctables..... You got a lot for a damn Glock.... That Ruger is the shit*
The first box you opened was worth the trade. Everything else is just Lanniappe. Or rather extra stuff on top.
Really a .22 ruger for a glock. Buy guns much, what glock you wanna trade for that target pistol?
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stagsmcnasty1 those target pistols from the 70s n 80s can be worth 800 dollars or more .. so he made out
Nice seeing properly priced ammo :)
Pops Quest+ That was a good move to swap the barrel out of your 27 for a 9mm I did that with my 23C. Did you just change the barrel or did you also do the ejector and other parts? Regardless of the parts, how did it run, did you put a lot of ammo through it? I've heard people having good luck with and without swapping out all the correct parts to change caliber from .40 to 9mm. Thanks for the video, I love digging through old stuff like that. My fiance's great, great uncle will be 104 this spring, he was born in 1915 and was 14 when the STOCK MARKET CRASHED IN 1929 AND STARGED THE GREAT DEPRESSION! In World War 2 he was in the Air Force, stationed in England and he was a sheetmetal fabricator and he repaired the bomber planes when they came back to base and had body damage from getting shot at in the midway. He has 10 acres on his property, along with 2 garages, 2 polebarns and 2 barns, he owns about 8 vintage tractors from 1930's-60's and he built a good size machine shop in one of his polebarns! Very cool man, indeed! I could listen to his stories all day long!
I would give a Glock for a Ruger Mark II in a heartbeat.
Yu sure bout that statement i got a xdm Ian trading for that bag
Glocksucker.
Think Dad got bent over. This stuff is way cooler than a Glock
I sold a bunch of those Raven .25 autos for $29 when I worked at a sporting goods store in 1979-80
Doug DA
I’m ashamed at what our country has become today, won’t be able to ever experience that in my lifetime haha, cheap guns and cheap ammo.
Yeah man it was probably awesome..... Super jealous.
I had a Raven in my tackle box. in 3 years it rusted so bad that I made a book end out of it. Painted it black with derusto .89 cent paint.
Doug DA Horribly cheap ass pistol.Known for breaking firing pins.
@@XFizzlepop-Berrytwist Sometimes smaller shops will have old used ones. I seen some like that pocket .25 for around 60.00 (.22 as well.)
I had an RG-32 revolver exactly like yours. I recognized it immediately when you took it out by the plastic grips and the push-rod. It was a good little shooter. I bought it from a guy at a filling station for very little $ but I enjoyed it. After a few years, my house was burglarized and some low-life stole it. I miss the little shooter!
The "RG" stands for "Röhm"? Its a German gun company (I am from Germany too) and was always known for good quality until hey got bought by UMAREX like 10 Years ago. I had some Röhm Blank Guns (thanks to german laws i don't have real ones) and i never had Problems with them.
But I know that Röhm also made some junk like the little Röhm .22 short revolver.
But Im pretty sure the .38 is a solid gun. Not the best .38 but also absolutely not the worst.
IH - MTXRGU I thought you could have guns in Germany?
Not with my age. Im 22 so I am only allowed to have .22lr guns. No centerfire ammunition and guns.
You can own like .38 special, 9mm, .308 ... With 25 years of age and proper license.
Germany makes excellent guns. If I were to buy a gun that I know is solid quality and well designed and if I saw made in Germany on it, I would buy it.
You need only to look at the Mauser 98. To this day it is the standard that all bolt action rifles are compared to. Oh yeah, here in America we copied so many things from the Mauser 98 for our 1903 Springfields that we had to pay patent use fees to Germany.
Rohm also makes tooling for various machinery, lathes and mills included. The pistol used to shoot Ronald Regan was an RG.
I also thought that was a Röhm. 38 on first look. My grandpa had one of those Babys
Excellent haul. The .22 is a great high quality small game and target gun. IIRC the RG was not a bad pocket revolver that should get the job done. The Raven well I am not sure I would feel comfortable carrying it with a fish in the tube but still a fun little pop gun that could still cause some ouchie. good ammo haul.
good trade.
Nice score, the RG and Raven aren't worth much dollar wise but the Ruger Mark 2 is the big score. Guns and ammo, doesn't get much better.
Pretty sweet. I inherited a little grab bag from father in law. Mossberg 500 with gold trigger wood stock, a Dan Wesson 357 , a Ruger 22/45, a Model 77 I think it is , synthetic .22 Rifle. I think this is Remington.
Damn that was an excellent deal, especially that ruger mk2. Excellent pistol, lots of fun especially suppressed.
Ruger Mk ii is a great gun. Mine is 30 years old and still is in great shape. The RG is a paper weight.
you for sure got the better end of this deal! great bag of goodies!
My first pistol was an RG .38 exactly like that. Got it from an old bailiff with some +P wadcutters. The only info I found was that they were intended to be cheap throwaway backups. Not the most accurate but really fun to shoot.
Hahahaha your daddy gave you a bag full of evidence
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Love the Glock 23 ! To me its the perfect carry handgun. I love and trust the 40 cal round. Just above the 9mm and just under the 45 cal. Great stopping power. Just my opinion, doesn't mean its the right carry weapon for everyone, just me.
I have been shooting a Ruger MKII since 1981! K Mart had those bricks of Wild Cat .22 rf. on sale for $5.00 a brick of 500. That was in the mid 1980's. I think I may have a box or 2 still around. So yes I remember those prices. lol
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Damn, bought a box of 550 cost 20$.
I’m saddened by how anti gun our country is.
Garrett Bral
1 Dollar in 1980 compared today Is worth $3.21
So we’re still getting screwed.
Garrett Bral
Thanks man, you too.
I remember going to a store in Kansas city called wild woodies, and we could get a brick of 22 long rifle for $2.50. We would go to our grandmother's farm in south Missouri target shooting and squirrel hunting.
Cool video. I'd be careful with that 38 it looks like it might just come apart at any time it decides it want's to. I'd say the best thing in your bag would be the Mark 2. Good score.
Those prices aren't all that old...
I'm only 30, and I was buying 50 round boxes of .22lr for
Joshua Rassi gone stupid? They're .04 cents per round!
$60 for 500 rounds in NZ, how does that compare to USA?
Lucy Carr yikes
550 cost 20$ in southern MO.
I agree. I can buy 500 Remington Thunderbolt for $21. $1.77 was not a bargain back then.
I have the same model Ruger MKII. Excellent gun. Most reliable..22 auto I've ever owned. Can't easily find these guns any more of the second hand market. Especially LNIB like that. Congrats.
That .22WRF is different from .22 Long Rifle and .22 Magnum. It can't be fired in either caliber gun, as .22 WRF is a "specialty" chambering, and no guns have been made for that round since the 1960s.
The RG "Rohm" revolver - I wouldn't shoot anything other than wadcutter ammo in it because those guns had Aluminum frames, and the metal used wasn't great quality.
Getting mags for that Raven .25 shouldn't be much trouble.
Kevin S I have two pump actions in 22wrf
Kevin S. The 22 Magnum read[22 Winchester Rim Fire magnum] is the longer version of the Winchester Rim Fire which is no longer produced. It can be fired in the W.R.F.M. chamber but will cause throat erosion
Wrf and wcf are original .22wmr just slightly shorter cases. I have a 50yr old box of cci .22 wcf
I remember remington .22's at $.050 a box. I bought .22 Lr for $8 and change for a brick of 500 back in the early to mid 90's. Prices went up fast, and will probably never come back down.
The RG is junk, The Ruger is the best part of the deal. I remember buying Super X .22 when I was a kid for .35 a box, shorts were 32¢
@2:30. RG Miami was a subsidiary of a German company. John Hinkly used an RG.
RG as a gun manufacturer was sold to Umarex
.22 WRF, stands for Winchester rim fire. Was out long before the .22 mag ,do some research on it mite be worth something
The third pistol you pulled out isn't manufactured very well! The slide is cast and can over heat easy! Mine blew up on me while shooting it! So if you shoot it. Just peck around with it. Don't empty the clip 10 times in a row lol
Love the way you see the revolvers loaded just as you turn it towards you. Trigger discipline always lol. TkEZ»UK
RG stands for Röhm GmbH. It is a german manufacturer.
R.g. Is short for rugar
This is history every grandpa & great-grandpa wished they could pass down. Thanks for sharing it was very exciting looking at what’s next & that Mark II alone was worth the trade as far as value IMHO.
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Yeah, it makes me sad at today’s world that we are such an anti gun culture now.
I have one of those small boxes of wildcat 22 from Kmart. 99¢ my old man bought them way back when.
I remember buying them for .89¢ always right by the Kmart sporting goods cash register. 😎
Only a Glock fanboy would think you lost in that deal.. you definitely came out on top regardless of what generation ( new and improved again) Glock it was.
Good deal, actually whatever you get for a Glock trade in is worth it :-)
spent a lot of my young life in a TG&Y store looking at guns and knives just a dreaming while Mom shopped. mowed a ton of lawns one summer and bought a Western Bowie Knife i still have it and it still looks new. worth way more than i paid for it now.
The revolver is a cheapo junker.
They made the Room RG1 pot metal .22 Saturday night special revolvers that almost never worked.
mark 2 is a great gun for many uses, targets especially.The .22 Magnum (WMR) is based on a lengthened .22 WRF case. Revolvers and single shot rifles chambered for the .22 Mag. can usually shoot .22 WRF ammo without a problem. However, magazine fed .22 Magnum repeaters often will not feed the shorter .22 WRF cartridge correctly.Dupont didn't own the Remmington brand,fully until about1980.Mostly,they only made the ammo. Mark 2 with box, best part of deal. I love the mark series.
Thanks for letting us watch
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That's definitely from the 60s and 70s 22 magnum ammo, cool old school stuff you have there, that was a great TRADE!!! FROM THE GOOD OL DAYS!
rg rhom and gesschlaft or something, 60's-80's economy revolver. some made in Germany some assembled in Florida.
ready for a "special Saturday night"
RG 31 is not a bad snubnose! I used 38 special 158 grain semi wadcutters in mine! Very accurate at up to 50 yards!
Pretty cool stuff, heck I remember buying bricks of 22 for 8.99 now that was awhile ago.
rchopp ya I payed $75 for a 555 box at a gun show and now it’s $25 a box
rchopp. Yea I have a box of 22 priced at .89 cents
$75 for 555, 22lr? dude even at the peak of the shortage you way overpaid.
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rchopp sorry but back when you couldn’t find 22 LR ammo I’ve seen it go up to $100.00 a brick at gun show’s. Yes back I late 90’s you get a brick for $7.99 and under on sale. And I bought 22LR for c .49.
ruger mark 1 till 4 are made from 1949 till 1982, 1983 or 1984 and the ruger is pretty rare from what i've heard. and what do you pay now for a box? 6 to 8 bucks for the 1,77$ box?
I was waiting for a colt python in the back or something like that
Cool little score. Other than the moisture ingress that seems apparent. Doesn't look like they've been in a controlled environment. I think older ammo is/was made to hold up better though.
Y'all see old guns I see murder weapons
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Sweet find . that ruger looks sick .
38 revolver rohm geschtalt same brand of gun used to shoot Regan
Just looked it up and yes it was Lennon's death that your thinking of. This RG was actually original "sat night special" example used in the justification of freedom stealing the Brady bill. these are cool lil fun revolvers. I had a tiny rg 22 one thing to watch one for the safetty mechanisn notch they have is often worn meaning it's like an old single action even tho it has a floating firing pin so check this before you load all and carry on all 6
Worked at a gun shop in the mid-70s which started as a muzzle loader supply. When we moved into modern guns, cheap ones always sold the best. I haven't seen a Raven 25 or an RG snub since those days, but we sold a mess of them!
That MK2 is worth more than the Glock
As a old gun guy you got a good deal!!!!
Don't shoot wad cutters out of the rg 38 it might blow up rg is a very old gun and not always reliable, I have a 22 version
rg guns are notorious for jumping time. be careful firing it. but have fun
Clean it up and give it a blast ! They don't turn into plastic .. should work fine . Xcellent toss gun or cheap seller/trade for ammo or more .
Wad cutters are the best thing to shoot.
It's just ole school low powder charge low bullet weight target rounds..
Cops used them by the dozens back in the day to practice shoot
A .22 revolver... what's the point.
Jake, a .22 revolver is almost foolproof. Only thing that can really go wrong is ammo. Get a dud, you just pull the trigger again. .22 autos can be finicky as hell. You might have to try a dozen different types of ammo to find one that runs correctly and reliably. Then you have duds and jams you have to clear, like with any auto, it can happen. Every outdoorsman, hunter, hiker, angler, or camper should get a .22 revolver. I've had H&R, S&W, Ruger, High Standard, and even an RG. They're just plain fun, too!
Howdy,
I just discovered your videos. RG Industries is why Florida has a "Saturday Night Special" law. The one I had was aluminum and the cylinder stop was made to break. On occasion, the cylinder would not rotate completely and the bullet would discharge into the side of the barrel and possible remove part of your hand. It will work but just be careful.
I have a mark 2 and quick note they are a pain to put back together but amazing on reliability
Just cant be drinkin' while you do it ...lol
..keep it clean and it runs like a top .. 'nuf said ..
. never a prob. mud , dust ,100's of rounds, best gun I've ever had ..
Anime tiddies
Point up and problem falls into place
So confused as to why you unscrewed the ejector rod lol.
Ruger is freakin sweet!
That ruger isn't bad. I think you came out on top of this deal, I'd rather have that bag over the glock. Too bad it wasn't a government target model with the bull barrel, I have one and love it, for a .22 handgun with iron sights at a gun club I go to I can easily knock down bowling pins from 50 yards with 1 shot per pin. The ammo isn't extremely old unfortunately, a couple of those boxes might be worth throwing on a shelf. Some odd but decent burner guns you acquired from this deal.
Give your dad his treasures back and just give him the Glock.
I think you got the better end of the deal. Those Ruger Mark IIs are fun little guns. I have one and it's one of my favorite to shoot. The brake down can suck thought.
The ruger is nice
You came out on the better end. Those old Ruger mk2’s are really collectible. I’ve seen them on gunbroker for $5/600.00!
That Ruger is worth $300, the rest of the stuff is garbage. Glocks are worth $550. Not sure you got the better deal here.
550 new 300 used
you better check again. that Ruger will cost you the $550 you say the Glock is worth. seeing that both are used the Ruger is still worth more and will last and shoot forever.
Unboxing a loaded 38 interesting. Donr know much about it but it said Miami FL on it. I may be mistaken but that may have been the company that turned into Universal that made the 30 carbine in the 60s 70s and 80s
That ruger mk2 is worth a glock good trade. That RG German revolver is junk
Drew Martin
He gets the glock back in the end. XD
I feel like I was watching a video from the future when my nephew goes through my old gun bag when I'm dust in the wind.
You have no middle finger just like my grandpa!
What happened to your "fuck you" finger?
SQUEEZEBEATS roasted
That raven is a goos little pistol. Wish i hadn't gitten rid of mine.
I made a custome oak handle tinted blue. Was sweet..
Nice grab bag✌
you traded a glock for that junk raven pistol worth 35.00 and ruger 22 worth 150.00 your dad got a hell of a deal
go price one of those Rugers,
you have no idea what your talking about !
Glock cult
I agree with the wizard try to buy a Ruger SS for less than $500.
The Ruger is a great little plinking & target gun.
The RG, (short for Röhm Gesellschaft) is half-a-step above a Saturday night special.... A German cheap import revolver that was killed off by the gun control act of 1986.
The Raven P-25 *is* the poster child of Saturday night specials, in the brutal caliber of .25 ACP....and only accurate as far as you can throw it.
Think your pop got the better deal.
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Not checking a firearm is how accidents happen n be careful nextime!!! N nice score!!!!
Pete? Was up dude it’s me Steve we were in the klan back in the 80s ik yo voice and I noticed your finger man👍🏻
Very smart trade buddy. Lots of good stuff there.
Sell me one