Had one of these in the 70s. Traded it off to the father of a girlfriend for a Colt 32 automatic pocket pistol that "didnt work". The idjut was trying to use .32 colt revolver ammo in an automatic. Easiest repair I ever saw and I definitely got the better deal. Still have the little Colt.
There was a cap gun, plastic frame with a gray pit metal cylinder in the 60s that bore resemblance. The manufacturer had to plug the barrels cause they became popular with thugs.
@@neilhightower2270 The RG-10 has a ugly and crappy design. Here in Brazil, My Grandpa had an Rossi Cal .22 Revolver (.22 Short) And it looks just a little smaller and skinny compared to higher caliber revolvers. A very nice nickel finish revolver, Made by Amadeo Rossi in Brazil.
@@djnick1270 The worst gun here in Brazil was the Taurus 24/7. The brazilian police HATES it. A lot of dangerous catastrophic failures, It has wounded various police men and killed a innocent man. The well known 24FAIL7. 🤣☠🤣☠🤣
@@fryingpanhead8809they’re known to have timing issues. Unlikely to actually blow up, but having bullet fragments flying from the cylinder gap isn’t my idea of safe. Honestly, regardless of how unlikely an explosion might be, I’m not shooting a pot-metal gun. These weren’t meant to be used recreationally anyway. They were made to commit a crime and throw away.
Oh my god, this is the brand of revolver that blew up in my hand when I was 10 years old. My grandpa managed to get a .22lr one and let me shoot it, eventually it just popped in my hand, didn’t hurt me but god did it make me worry about blowing up my guns to this day.
I own a RG-66. I got it in 1974 to use in my trick shot act at an old west Theam park. I still have it and it has been fired a go-zillion times and is still going.
from what ive heard the german markey only models were pretty good quality, for some reason they just decided to export all the shit guns to the US. More profit I guess? Bigger market for cheap guns? I don't know
IT'S GOT A BARREL THAT'S BLUE AND OLD AND MAY SPLINTER LEAD ! SO WHY DON"T WE DUMP THEM PEOPLE ...ON SOME YOU TUBE CHANNEL BEFORE THEY BLOW UP IN OUR HANDS .....I REMEMBER WHEN THIS WAS AN ISSUE AND WAS A NEWS ITEM NIGHTLY .....
@@guns-and-bullets Yea Röhm is no more. Umarex bought them and they still sell blank guns (RG96, RG88 and some revolvers) under this brand. They just use the old production lines of Röhm. Fun fact: The .22 Röhm stuff u Americans got are sold to you for almost nothing because after a law change in Germany in the 70s .22 guns weren't licence free any more and everyone wanted to get rid of them. Todays German gun shops still have plenty of them because a lot of old people still had them laying around and the family members find them after the death of their grandparents. Still no one wants to buy them because hunters and sports shooters don't want to occupy are place in their licence for this cheap "saturday night specials" (in Germany u can only buy a very limited amount of guns which are all registered and constandly monitored by local authorities).
@@Mr.Z1989: I doubt that between 1952 and 1968/69 revolvers in .22 rimfire ( either short or or) had been licencefree in Westgermany. Do you mean 4mm Randzünder/4mm M20 centerfire? They had been realy licencefree until early 1970s? For czech market, ME ( Cuno Melcher) company produced them not long ago.
Röhm is actually a German company. Firearms was not their main business, their main product were actually drill chucks. And still is. They sold their firearms department to Umarex in 2010. Carl Walther also belongs to Umarex btw. Röhm mostly manufactured blank firing guns as a start signal for sport events, or for fireworks on New Years Eve (big thing here in Germany) or non lethal tear gas guns. And these guns also can handle low power calibers firing bullets like .22 So they made their blank guns also in "real" calibers.
Their blank firing revolvers and magazine fed starter pistols are popular for theatrical use too and are also common bases for prop firearms - one can build a mock stock and barrel around the small pistol and have it be anything from A musket to a modern rifle.
I bought a new RG .38 special in Miami in the mid-80's, for around $80. It was good, cheap protection, with its 5-shot cylinder. It always worked, and was accurate enough for close-distance defense. I gave it away decades ago, when I could afford a Taurus model 85, then eventually a S&W J-frame.
I had an RG 10 50 years ago was so cheap that the handles would spin like a propeller. While getting out of a 1962 Dodge pick up the grip panels spun and pinched together, the gun fell on the asphalt and fired. The bullet came up thru the running board , split in halve with one half traveling up my calve like a mole digs underground. The other half went into the seat beside my shoulder. I dug the lead from my leg with a knife and took the pos revolver and smashed it on an anvil.. THIS story is so true
The Rohm 10 was the original "Saturday Night Special". As a child in the 60's I remember seeing the ads and the guns at the stores, and darn near everybody had one simply because they were so cheap. They still turn up fairly often as the poor in the South couldn't afford anything else. Bad cylinder timing and light hammer strikes are common with these.
I have a Rg10 I've fired it many times it's never given me a problem and it always hits where I aim . I've watched videos on TH-cam and every time I see someone say they are in accurate it's because of the shooter not the gun.
There's a few of these around in Canada still, lots of old folks bought 'em when they moved to the big city and had to give up their long guns but were still afraid of inner city social problems.
@@yyeezyy630Of course Germans can own guns. Also AR15s. We just have to do a background check and a gun safe. But we have more of a car than a gun culture.
I have a Rohm 24 target model. From what I can find, the target models are rare. Must have been imported or made just before the ban. Mine works great in single action and accurate too. The spring in it doesn't have enough force to make all the rounds go off in double action.
They are probably of better quality than The Heritage Rough Rider Series of .22 Revolvers!... I remember the days of The Hardware Store and K-Mart "Saturday Night Specials"!..... The Government "Outlawed" the Importation of these types of Handguns because they said that they were used in an overwhelming number of "Sewer-Slides" and Crimes..... Oh, and by the way, in my opinion, ANY Firearm that WORKS is better that a "Pointy Stick" or a "Rock" when it comes to Defense of Yourself and Loved Ones.....
I have a 66 my dad fished out of the trash can at his police range back in the 70s. Something broke for the cop who bought it and after taking it apart and trying to fix it, threw it away. The cylinder wouldn’t lock up. Even if there were parts available, I wouldn’t fix or shoot it. The barrel is loose in the threads. It’s a paper weight and a conversation piece. I’ve got an amusing story about someone trading his 1911 for an RG .38 snub but that’s for another time. Great video. I’ve seen RGs at show going for $150-160 bucks. Not money well spent except for nostalgia.
I collected many variations of these Rohm/RG revolvers as a novelty. One of the RG 10 in 22 short I have has an unusually long barrel, and since I picked up a better version with the box. I've used it for a while on my farm only because I had a whole $20 in it and shooting barn rats with it was a challenge. The 22short CB and the longer barrel made it good enough for that out to about 15ft. One day after burning up a whole sleeve of 22sCB and only having 3 rats to show I went back to my daughter's old cricket with shot shells. I think the SatNiteSpls are neat and have a place in firearm history.
@@scottmaddow7879 some are definitely better than others- a few models even had zinc barrels with steel sleeves in them. 22 short itself is a bit difficult to come across anymore.
@@guns-and-bullets Yeah, they were my favorites. Nostalgia. I recall a news story from the late 90's (I think) where it was all a woman could afford after putting a restraining order on her significant other. She might have even just borrowed the little RG10. Anyway, yeah, he had a FAFO moment and amazing...22short can remove a full grown adult male from the census. I always told customers have a firearm you can afford, use effectively and ignore the gun counter leaning know it alls. Any firearm that you can successfully deploy is better than a harsh word and pointy stick.
The .22 short can be effective at very short range with an accurate, well placed shot...today, the NAA .22 short the only dedicated short being manufactured (I think), and if you can get snot or earwax on the muzzle it can get the job done...the caliber is still available, I fired 40 cci shorts the other day while testing a rifle for extraction issues (they all came out just fine)...paper and tin cans, even squirrels, fear the .22 short...
@@guns-and-bullets I can top that. The "Butler" derringer in 22 Short had alloy frames and barrels with no sleeving, They were made of a zinc alloy and would shoot the rifling away in as little as 30 or 40 shots (if something didn't break first).
These cheap inexpensive pistols were ideal for the poorer of people to have at least *A* handgun for defence. They are intended to be bought and hopefully never used, not to run tactical drills and competition shooting. They were to fill the role of rule one in a gunfight. 'have a gun".
My best friend had a Rohm, it was handed down from his grandfather. We grew up loving guns and that thing was always an inside joke for us haha, you’d pull the trigger 8 times and it’d fire twice, but shockingly it shot very accurately for what it was. He passed earlier this year and I’m not old enough to purchase a handgun in the states, but when I do turn 21 I’d like to buy one as a memento more than anything.
I own the frame for one of these because the seller on gunbroker sent the wrong rohm gun to my transfer guy and it was cheaper to just pay for the shipping of my intended rohm rg 25 than to send this back.
Canada here. I have a rohm revolver in 22mag. I got it of course used, fired 6 shots out of it. Went to cock the hammer on it and the leaf spring snapped inside. Haven’t found a replacement so it just sits doing nothing. Have thought about seeing if a SAA leaf spring can fit or be modified to fit… so yes another one accounted for broken!
My mother's nightstand gun is a Rohm. Possibly that 66 shown here but all that's ever been shot out of it is .22 lr. We don't have another cylinder. It's been in my family since 1980-something. Pull the trigger, it goes BANG, and that steel gong goes DING.
I remember one that a friend had. His dad owned a country store and sold a few of them. It was in the late 1960’s. We set up a target about 15 yards. He’d shoot and the bullet would hit 5 yards left or 5 yard right or up in the air I guess. I guess they’d hit about 2 yards away. At least that-was the case the example we had that day.
I had both of those at one point, the double action's report was about deafening and the bullet left the barrel at about a 45 degree angle. The single action was marginally better
First off, the leader of the SA circa 1930 Germany was Ernst Roehm. It is pronounced similar to "Rerm" or "Roam." I had one of the .22 LR SSA revolvers back in 1983. It had a weird manually safety, and was actually pretty beefy little beast.
If you want to start collecting firearms, these may be up your alley. Today they still are cheap, but most users do not care about them. So the amount available will start to dwindle.
My Stepdad has one of the .22 short revolvers. He traded a crappy fishing pole for it and an Army surplus sleeping bag back in the 70s. He never used either
I have an old blank gun that looks exactly like your smaller pistol. My older brother left it home when he moved out. It fires crimped copper .22 blanks. The scales came off the grip, so I wrapped it in a piece of deerskin. Makes the piece quite slender. I would never carry it. A Blank Gun can get you *into trouble* but it can't blast you out of it.
In Germany still licencefree to buy ( blankguns) but since 2008 you need a carry licence called , Kleiner Waffenschein ' ( from about 1905 to 2008 no carry licence for blankguns was necessary - Imperial Germany/ Weimar/ Nazi Germany!!!!). Those blankguns can scare away annimals, but even with CS / Pepper doubtfull against criminals. Are also usefull as Starter/Signal, Fireworks or Theater gun.
I have a Rohm .38 3" The front sight rail on the barrel is taped on by electrical tape, the handle is taped together with electrical tape since i can't find any worth the price replacement The cylinder arm is tightened up and shored up with loctite tape A few other things have been done to it to keep it relatively functional lol But she can peg a soda can from 40 yards no problem for me. She functions sufficiently enough for when I go out into the woods and need some pellet loads or just to dissuade some unfriendly animals or just to plink trash. I of course have a proper firearm for the real dicey situations but why soil that when the Rohm can do the job
I got a RG38 snubnose in .38 special a year ago for 50 bucks. Works and shoots great. I use it at my spare tire when visiting family in the bottoms of Columbus (hood) in case I need a quick defense and drop gun out of my pocket til I get to my FNS 40C. Works for that purpose and under my couch cushion while sitting watching TV. These guns come into the gun shop from time to time damaged usually by dry fire, and we tell the customer it's cheaper to get another gun then to find parts to fix theirs.
I still have my late dad's Rohm RG10 in .22 short with its 3 in. barrel in the box in pretty much mint condition for he only shot 19 out of the original 50 bullets of the old Remington ammo !!! It's a nice piece to collect and I hear in this condition they go for near $150. 00 dollars but I don't know for sure !!! This one will never be sold by me at any price !!! It was his only pistol he owned !!!
We had 2 Rhoms ,a revolver in .22 LR and an automatic in .25.The revolver was one of their more up-market ones and as i remember functioned well enough.We didn't fire the .25 often enough but I think that it jammed a fair bit but what small automatic doesn't especially when you don't experiment with the ideal ammunition.
Not that it matters, I'm just giving my age as a timeline for this. 53. When I was a young feller say 13-14 My cousin and I ran a lot of traplines, 'nuff said. Well, Another old relative gave me an RG in .22 short, for finishing something off we could not get to with a club. I woulda stayed with the club. What a lil pile of junk. Got rid of it somewhere, prolly a trade. I owned a gunshop for over 30 years, would never touch one. Bought a mobile home a few years ago, found nearly the same RG in a closet while cleaning. Ugh. Anyway it's disposed of. I DO tho wish I had 50 of them. I'd weld them all into a boat anchor, and sell it as "art".
I inherited a snub nose .38 Special from my Grandfather. It's been several years, but I believe it was made by that company. It was so corroded that it didn't seem safe to shoot and it was destroyed.
Hi-Points are superior to all the true "Saturday Night Specials", because Hi-Points work. They're cheap and clunky, but they're reliable and safe to shoot and therefore not bad guns. True junk guns are unreliable, and the worst are dangerous to the shooter for reasons beyond unreliability. Hi-Point can be proud to offer an expensive product that works and will serve it's customers. The Saturday Night Special companies claim to be like Hi-Point in doing so, but they're actually a class of criminal (morally if not legally) who knowingly sell broken weapons that their customers rely upon to save them from danger. These companies endanger their customers by selling guns that don't work and are unsafe to shoot. Besides legislation, this is why the Ring of Fire and Saturday Night Special type pistols are no longer in production. Though as a result criminals now use better, more reliable, and more powerful weapons. Maybe it was beneficial to public safety that criminals often used unreliable .22 Short and .25 ACP pistols. I don't know. These days, no .22 Short or .25 ACP handguns remain in production, even high-quality ones, except for the novelty .22 Short miniature revolver made in limited quantities by North American Arms.
I would recommend going to a reputable gun shop where they have used revolvers. My dad bought all of his shoes and they all work great. You just have to know how to test them. Make sure every cylinder comes into alignment every time and does not move. Actually fire it to make sure it's not shaving lead. Other than that you're pretty good
The Company is still around and active but they split off their firearms business. If you have an expensive drill, chances are the chuck was made by Röhm.
Like your style and your choice of topics, think you found a real niche with the lesser known guns and kinda glad your not "gun tuber #78" of course you do what you want but your vids are nice something new
I know Rohm and I never understood, why they made those low quality guns for the US market. Their main business are high precision bushings and tools. If they really wanted, they could make high quality revolvers like Korth.
That RG-66 looks good enough to use for training or display. It probably still works fine, too. You couldn't get an equal-quality dummy for cheaper. You mention the insanely light trigger; that's common for a single-action revolver. Overall, it looks sound and is probably perfectly fine for standard-velocity .22LR. I wouldn't shoot Mini-Mags or .22 Magnum, though.
It's a bit hard to describe without trying it yourself- unlike a single-six with GOOD light trigger, this feels like a heavily worn sear I suppose. The soft metals probably did just that.
My dad had the single action model he bought before I was born in the mid 70's. He put many, many thousands of rounds thru it then so did I. I'd go out in my back yard when I was about 12 and shoot hundreds of rounds thru it at pop cans, soup cans, anything that could be a target. Then in the mid 90's, I was shooting it when we were camping and it suddenly blew back a bunch of junk in my face. I stopped and looked at it and it had a crack across the top, rear of the frame. We pulled the firing pin out of it and never shot it again. He still has it somewhere.
This advice is intended for good people, who "do what they have to do," not crooks, who are doing it, anyway. These are the best handguns to carry concealed, if you don't have a CCP. If you get caught, and they confiscate your gun, it's no great loss.
Used to know someone who had a DA/SA in .45 Colt. It was a German produced gun, issued for state patrol service. Never had a problem and I've looked for one like it since, with no luck.
A friend of mine has the double action, along with an identical toy pistol. He inherited them from his dad who was a lawyer involved with a law suite involving someone who got shot by a police officer after the toy gun was mistaken for a real gun (back in the early 80s, San Antonio TX) and somehow his dad ended up with them when the case was over.
I can attest the RG66 just came with that light of a trigger. I’ve owned two and handled two others. They all have scary light triggers by design for better or worse.
Quite a few years back I worked in a gun shop; we had a few of these in the case. The most common question about them was "Is that a real gun?" To my knowledge they never sold.
In my experience the 66 was pretty decent. The one in the video is the roughest one I've seen. But they were cheap, and are now old, so im not surprised.
I inherited one of these (RG10) from my dear old granny. She always had it in her purse. I don't think she ever shot it. Neither did I. I sold it, but don't recall what I got for it.
Very interesting. Thank You. How I remember the vile things. I have never seen one of those holsters though. Those were the original "Saturday Night Specials".
Pawn shops that sell Saturday night specials should be sued by the buyer especially not knowing how garbage they are and especially so if they charge a ridiculous amount that coulf get you a much better quality handgun
My dad bought my sister one of these when the whole “Night Stalker” thing was going on and she was living alone in Anaheim.
She still has it.
Great story!
Had one of these in the 70s. Traded it off to the father of a girlfriend for a Colt 32 automatic pocket pistol that "didnt work". The idjut was trying to use .32 colt revolver ammo in an automatic. Easiest repair I ever saw and I definitely got the better deal. Still have the little Colt.
I got an Ortgies exactly that same way.
absolutely FINESSED that dude LOL
You went out with the daughter but shafted the father as well, lol!
An auto won't run rimmed ammo too well.
Lol nice. Its a good thing you knew a bit about cartridge nomenclature.
There's Röhm for improvement.
That makes no cents for the bottom line.
@@codygranrud6212because you don't speak german... 😂
@@Katzenkotze85 I know a little German. His name is Hanz.
hehe like it dude ;-)
The RG-10 looks like a Dolar Store Cap Gun. 😆
I have a .22 short and it really is a cap gun
There was a cap gun, plastic frame with a gray pit metal cylinder in the 60s that bore resemblance. The manufacturer had to plug the barrels cause they became popular with thugs.
@@neilhightower2270 The RG-10 has a ugly and crappy design.
Here in Brazil, My Grandpa had an Rossi Cal .22 Revolver (.22 Short)
And it looks just a little smaller and skinny compared to higher caliber revolvers.
A very nice nickel finish revolver, Made by Amadeo Rossi in Brazil.
@@TC_Connectionrossi sucks imo I've had 2 guns from them break a 357 and a 44
@@djnick1270 The worst gun here in Brazil was the Taurus 24/7.
The brazilian police HATES it.
A lot of dangerous catastrophic failures, It has wounded various police men and killed a innocent man.
The well known 24FAIL7. 🤣☠🤣☠🤣
i find them endearingly shitty, would love to own one someday
You get them them online for like $200 max for a nicer one but are better off with a $150 (or so )Heritage revolver as an actual shooter.
My dad has one he got from his dad. It’s cool, but I told him not to shoot it! I told him we ought to grind the pin off.
@@slimjim2584 You can get an RG 10 for $50 online.
@@richardlea818 Why? The gun is NOT going to blow up. As I said before, you'll get loosening before anything else.
@@fryingpanhead8809they’re known to have timing issues. Unlikely to actually blow up, but having bullet fragments flying from the cylinder gap isn’t my idea of safe. Honestly, regardless of how unlikely an explosion might be, I’m not shooting a pot-metal gun. These weren’t meant to be used recreationally anyway. They were made to commit a crime and throw away.
Oh my god, this is the brand of revolver that blew up in my hand when I was 10 years old. My grandpa managed to get a .22lr one and let me shoot it, eventually it just popped in my hand, didn’t hurt me but god did it make me worry about blowing up my guns to this day.
CARL?!?
The chambers line up with the barrel almost every time.
@@Sir...... This sounds like a story carl would tell, and master shake would make fun of him for it
@@Faygo2215⚡🧶🥤🍟⚡
I own a RG-66. I got it in 1974 to use in my trick shot act at an old west Theam park. I still have it and it has been fired a go-zillion times and is still going.
from what ive heard the german markey only models were pretty good quality, for some reason they just decided to export all the shit guns to the US. More profit I guess? Bigger market for cheap guns? I don't know
It's like the gun equivalent of a McDonald's digital watch.
Mr. Saturday Night Special.
Got a barrel that's crude and old
As in Special Olympics?
@@badkingjohn5235 I hope that was a joke and not knowing the song of the time 🤣🤣
ain't good for nothin'
IT'S GOT A BARREL THAT'S BLUE AND OLD AND MAY SPLINTER LEAD ! SO WHY DON"T WE DUMP THEM PEOPLE ...ON SOME YOU TUBE CHANNEL BEFORE THEY BLOW UP IN OUR HANDS .....I REMEMBER WHEN THIS WAS AN ISSUE AND WAS A NEWS ITEM NIGHTLY .....
A yes the good old Röhm. They actually made good blank firing guns.
@@Mr.Z1989 I believe it- I think that's all they make now as well, even being owned by umarex
@@guns-and-bullets Yea Röhm is no more. Umarex bought them and they still sell blank guns (RG96, RG88 and some revolvers) under this brand. They just use the old production lines of Röhm.
Fun fact: The .22 Röhm stuff u Americans got are sold to you for almost nothing because after a law change in Germany in the 70s .22 guns weren't licence free any more and everyone wanted to get rid of them. Todays German gun shops still have plenty of them because a lot of old people still had them laying around and the family members find them after the death of their grandparents.
Still no one wants to buy them because hunters and sports shooters don't want to occupy are place in their licence for this cheap "saturday night specials" (in Germany u can only buy a very limited amount of guns which are all registered and constandly monitored by local authorities).
@@Mr.Z1989: I doubt that between 1952 and 1968/69 revolvers in .22 rimfire ( either short or or) had been licencefree in Westgermany. Do you mean 4mm Randzünder/4mm M20 centerfire? They had been realy licencefree until early 1970s? For czech market, ME ( Cuno Melcher) company produced them not long ago.
@@brittakriep2938 You can check it. Its true. Kleinkaliber war frei damals.
That's a very Low Bar to meet...😂
Röhm is actually a German company. Firearms was not their main business, their main product were actually drill chucks. And still is. They sold their firearms department to Umarex in 2010. Carl Walther also belongs to Umarex btw.
Röhm mostly manufactured blank firing guns as a start signal for sport events, or for fireworks on New Years Eve (big thing here in Germany) or non lethal tear gas guns. And these guns also can handle low power calibers firing bullets like .22 So they made their blank guns also in "real" calibers.
Their blank firing revolvers and magazine fed starter pistols are popular for theatrical use too and are also common bases for prop firearms - one can build a mock stock and barrel around the small pistol and have it be anything from A musket to a modern rifle.
I bought a new RG .38 special in Miami in the mid-80's, for around $80. It was good, cheap protection, with its 5-shot cylinder. It always worked, and was accurate enough for close-distance defense. I gave it away decades ago, when I could afford a Taurus model 85, then eventually a S&W J-frame.
I had an RG 10 50 years ago was so cheap that the handles would spin like a propeller. While getting out of a 1962 Dodge pick up the grip panels spun and pinched together, the gun fell on the asphalt and fired. The bullet came up thru the running board , split in halve with one half traveling up my calve like a mole digs underground. The other half went into the seat beside my shoulder. I dug the lead from my leg with a knife and took the pos revolver and smashed it on an anvil.. THIS story is so true
Holy fuck man that’s wild…
The Rohm 10 was the original "Saturday Night Special". As a child in the 60's I remember seeing the ads and the guns at the stores, and darn near everybody had one simply because they were so cheap. They still turn up fairly often as the poor in the South couldn't afford anything else. Bad cylinder timing and light hammer strikes are common with these.
I have a Rg10 I've fired it many times it's never given me a problem and it always hits where I aim .
I've watched videos on TH-cam and every time I see someone say they are in accurate it's because of the shooter not the gun.
Dangerous Trash.
I had the little Röhm RG10 & it shot very up & very left!
Perfect gun for a gun buyback but you don't want to shoot it.
There's a few of these around in Canada still, lots of old folks bought 'em when they moved to the big city and had to give up their long guns but were still afraid of inner city social problems.
German here. Röhms are perfectly adequate if you’re looking for a gun you can defend yourself with once. They ain’t made for more than that.
They should have never been made period.
@@Iowahorse They absolutely should have. The had a niche and they filled it.
How would you know you can’t even own guns
@@yyeezyy630 I can I’ve got a ownership card.
@@yyeezyy630Of course Germans can own guns. Also AR15s. We just have to do a background check and a gun safe. But we have more of a car than a gun culture.
I have a Rohm 24 target model. From what I can find, the target models are rare. Must have been imported or made just before the ban. Mine works great in single action and accurate too. The spring in it doesn't have enough force to make all the rounds go off in double action.
The Yugo of firearms
Put some respect on the lords car the almighty yugo!!
Ironically yugoslavia made some really decent guns.
They are probably of better quality than The Heritage Rough Rider Series of .22 Revolvers!... I remember the days of The Hardware Store and K-Mart "Saturday Night Specials"!..... The Government "Outlawed" the Importation of these types of Handguns because they said that they were used in an overwhelming number of "Sewer-Slides" and Crimes..... Oh, and by the way, in my opinion, ANY Firearm that WORKS is better that a "Pointy Stick" or a "Rock" when it comes to Defense of Yourself and Loved Ones.....
I have no complaints or problems with Heritage rough rider. And no complaints with the quality or price. I am curious what problems you have had?
I have a 66 my dad fished out of the trash can at his police range back in the 70s. Something broke for the cop who bought it and after taking it apart and trying to fix it, threw it away. The cylinder wouldn’t lock up. Even if there were parts available, I wouldn’t fix or shoot it. The barrel is loose in the threads. It’s a paper weight and a conversation piece. I’ve got an amusing story about someone trading his 1911 for an RG .38 snub but that’s for another time. Great video. I’ve seen RGs at show going for $150-160 bucks. Not money well spent except for nostalgia.
With inflation it's around 225usd
biden's Amerikkk
I collected many variations of these Rohm/RG revolvers as a novelty. One of the RG 10 in 22 short I have has an unusually long barrel, and since I picked up a better version with the box. I've used it for a while on my farm only because I had a whole $20 in it and shooting barn rats with it was a challenge. The 22short CB and the longer barrel made it good enough for that out to about 15ft. One day after burning up a whole sleeve of 22sCB and only having 3 rats to show I went back to my daughter's old cricket with shot shells. I think the SatNiteSpls are neat and have a place in firearm history.
@@scottmaddow7879 some are definitely better than others- a few models even had zinc barrels with steel sleeves in them. 22 short itself is a bit difficult to come across anymore.
@@guns-and-bullets Yeah, they were my favorites. Nostalgia. I recall a news story from the late 90's (I think) where it was all a woman could afford after putting a restraining order on her significant other. She might have even just borrowed the little RG10. Anyway, yeah, he had a FAFO moment and amazing...22short can remove a full grown adult male from the census. I always told customers have a firearm you can afford, use effectively and ignore the gun counter leaning know it alls. Any firearm that you can successfully deploy is better than a harsh word and pointy stick.
The .22 short can be effective at very short range with an accurate, well placed shot...today, the NAA .22 short the only dedicated short being manufactured (I think), and if you can get snot or earwax on the muzzle it can get the job done...the caliber is still available, I fired 40 cci shorts the other day while testing a rifle for extraction issues (they all came out just fine)...paper and tin cans, even squirrels, fear the .22 short...
@@guns-and-bullets I can top that. The "Butler" derringer in 22 Short had alloy frames and barrels with no sleeving, They were made of a zinc alloy and would shoot the rifling away in as little as 30 or 40 shots (if something didn't break first).
I bought a lot at auction that came with a brand new Iver Johnson Cadet. Looks a lot like this. Seems like the gun for folks that like Yugo cars.
These cheap inexpensive pistols were ideal for the poorer of people to have at least *A* handgun for defence.
They are intended to be bought and hopefully never used, not to run tactical drills and competition shooting.
They were to fill the role of rule one in a gunfight. 'have a gun".
My best friend had a Rohm, it was handed down from his grandfather. We grew up loving guns and that thing was always an inside joke for us haha, you’d pull the trigger 8 times and it’d fire twice, but shockingly it shot very accurately for what it was. He passed earlier this year and I’m not old enough to purchase a handgun in the states, but when I do turn 21 I’d like to buy one as a memento more than anything.
I own the frame for one of these because the seller on gunbroker sent the wrong rohm gun to my transfer guy and it was cheaper to just pay for the shipping of my intended rohm rg 25 than to send this back.
Didn't know Röhm made "real" guns.
I own a RG-89 blank gun (fuck german gun laws) and the quality is pretty good to be honest.
It’s incredible that he said you probably didn’t by one….yup , totally free pistol that was given to me lol😂
Canada here. I have a rohm revolver in 22mag.
I got it of course used, fired 6 shots out of it. Went to cock the hammer on it and the leaf spring snapped inside. Haven’t found a replacement so it just sits doing nothing. Have thought about seeing if a SAA leaf spring can fit or be modified to fit… so yes another one accounted for broken!
The absolute definition of a Saturday Night Special.
I inherited a RG .38 special from my grandfather after he passed. I took it shooting one day and the frame cracked in half after 3 shots.
My mother's nightstand gun is a Rohm. Possibly that 66 shown here but all that's ever been shot out of it is .22 lr. We don't have another cylinder. It's been in my family since 1980-something. Pull the trigger, it goes BANG, and that steel gong goes DING.
My grandmother bought one of those long ago for protection. I had it at one time and I'd rather take my chances throwing a rock.
I remember one that a friend had. His dad owned a country store and sold a few of them. It was in the late 1960’s. We set up a target about 15 yards. He’d shoot and the bullet would hit 5 yards left or 5 yard right or up in the air I guess. I guess they’d hit about 2 yards away. At least that-was the case the example we had that day.
Lmao people used to modify and convert these to fire .22 lr up here in Canada back in the day
Nice vid. Digging the atmosphere. Just subbed.
This channel is going places! 📈
I had both of those at one point, the double action's report was about deafening and the bullet left the barrel at about a 45 degree angle. The single action was marginally better
I like the combination of your voice and the background music, very chill
My buddy found one buried in the yard at work……but i bought mine! I absolutely love it!!!!!!!!! My rg10 is my baby!!!
This was a really cool video. I actually look forward to seeing more.
First off, the leader of the SA circa 1930 Germany was Ernst Roehm. It is pronounced similar to "Rerm" or "Roam." I had one of the .22 LR SSA revolvers back in 1983. It had a weird manually safety, and was actually pretty beefy little beast.
If you want to start collecting firearms, these may be up your alley.
Today they still are cheap, but most users do not care about them. So the amount available will start to dwindle.
My Stepdad has one of the .22 short revolvers. He traded a crappy fishing pole for it and an Army surplus sleeping bag back in the 70s. He never used either
I have an old blank gun that looks exactly like your smaller pistol. My older brother left it home when he moved out. It fires crimped copper .22 blanks. The scales came off the grip, so I wrapped it in a piece of deerskin. Makes the piece quite slender. I would never carry it. A Blank Gun can get you *into trouble* but it can't blast you out of it.
In Germany still licencefree to buy ( blankguns) but since 2008 you need a carry licence called , Kleiner Waffenschein ' ( from about 1905 to 2008 no carry licence for blankguns was necessary - Imperial Germany/ Weimar/ Nazi Germany!!!!). Those blankguns can scare away annimals, but even with CS / Pepper doubtfull against criminals. Are also usefull as Starter/Signal, Fireworks or Theater gun.
I have a Rohm .38 3"
The front sight rail on the barrel is taped on by electrical tape, the handle is taped together with electrical tape since i can't find any worth the price replacement
The cylinder arm is tightened up and shored up with loctite tape
A few other things have been done to it to keep it relatively functional lol
But she can peg a soda can from 40 yards no problem for me. She functions sufficiently enough for when I go out into the woods and need some pellet loads or just to dissuade some unfriendly animals or just to plink trash. I of course have a proper firearm for the real dicey situations but why soil that when the Rohm can do the job
The first handgun I ever shot was a Rohm RG 38 Revolver a friend had.
That was 1990. I was 16.
I got a RG38 snubnose in .38 special a year ago for 50 bucks. Works and shoots great. I use it at my spare tire when visiting family in the bottoms of Columbus (hood) in case I need a quick defense and drop gun out of my pocket til I get to my FNS 40C. Works for that purpose and under my couch cushion while sitting watching TV. These guns come into the gun shop from time to time damaged usually by dry fire, and we tell the customer it's cheaper to get another gun then to find parts to fix theirs.
I still have my late dad's Rohm RG10 in .22 short with its 3 in. barrel in the box in pretty much mint condition for he only shot 19 out of the original 50 bullets of the old Remington ammo !!! It's a nice piece to collect and I hear in this condition they go for near $150. 00 dollars but I don't know for sure !!! This one will never be sold by me at any price !!! It was his only pistol he owned !!!
I have the RG14 model, fired it many times. No issues
I have two Gerstenberger revolvers in .22 short. Looks very similar.
We had 2 Rhoms ,a revolver in .22 LR and an automatic in .25.The revolver was one of their more up-market ones and as i remember functioned well enough.We didn't fire the .25 often enough but I think that it jammed a fair bit but what small automatic doesn't especially when you don't experiment with the ideal ammunition.
"Exacerbate" not "exasperate"... because knowing is half the battle
Not that it matters, I'm just giving my age as a timeline for this. 53. When I was a young feller say 13-14 My cousin and I ran a lot of traplines, 'nuff said. Well, Another old relative gave me an RG in .22 short, for finishing something off we could not get to with a club. I woulda stayed with the club. What a lil pile of junk. Got rid of it somewhere, prolly a trade. I owned a gunshop for over 30 years, would never touch one. Bought a mobile home a few years ago, found nearly the same RG in a closet while cleaning. Ugh. Anyway it's disposed of. I DO tho wish I had 50 of them. I'd weld them all into a boat anchor, and sell it as "art".
I inherited a snub nose .38 Special from my Grandfather. It's been several years, but I believe it was made by that company. It was so corroded that it didn't seem safe to shoot and it was destroyed.
I own a rg22 long barrel and i had to rebuild it several years ago and it still works great. Its a great plinking gun but its loud as hell.
Never thought I’d see the day a hi point would be preferable
Hi-Points are superior to all the true "Saturday Night Specials", because Hi-Points work. They're cheap and clunky, but they're reliable and safe to shoot and therefore not bad guns. True junk guns are unreliable, and the worst are dangerous to the shooter for reasons beyond unreliability.
Hi-Point can be proud to offer an expensive product that works and will serve it's customers. The Saturday Night Special companies claim to be like Hi-Point in doing so, but they're actually a class of criminal (morally if not legally) who knowingly sell broken weapons that their customers rely upon to save them from danger. These companies endanger their customers by selling guns that don't work and are unsafe to shoot.
Besides legislation, this is why the Ring of Fire and Saturday Night Special type pistols are no longer in production. Though as a result criminals now use better, more reliable, and more powerful weapons. Maybe it was beneficial to public safety that criminals often used unreliable .22 Short and .25 ACP pistols. I don't know. These days, no .22 Short or .25 ACP handguns remain in production, even high-quality ones, except for the novelty .22 Short miniature revolver made in limited quantities by North American Arms.
I would recommend going to a reputable gun shop where they have used revolvers. My dad bought all of his shoes and they all work great. You just have to know how to test them. Make sure every cylinder comes into alignment every time and does not move. Actually fire it to make sure it's not shaving lead. Other than that you're pretty good
The Company is still around and active but they split off their firearms business. If you have an expensive drill, chances are the chuck was made by Röhm.
Fun fact: These are the same revolvers that were used in the movie "Dawn of the Dead" (1978) :3
Like your style and your choice of topics, think you found a real niche with the lesser known guns and kinda glad your not "gun tuber #78" of course you do what you want but your vids are nice something new
I know Rohm and I never understood, why they made those low quality guns for the US market.
Their main business are high precision bushings and tools.
If they really wanted, they could make high quality revolvers like Korth.
I got 2 of them for $25 a couple of decades ago, a .22 and a .38 special.
They are obviously crap, but both work.
i only know Rohm because their Colt SAA lookalike was the second main revolver in Dawn of the Dead 78
There is fairly common ammunition that costs more per round than that pistol did. That's a definite NO Sale.
Looks like my starting pistol.
That RG-66 looks good enough to use for training or display. It probably still works fine, too. You couldn't get an equal-quality dummy for cheaper. You mention the insanely light trigger; that's common for a single-action revolver. Overall, it looks sound and is probably perfectly fine for standard-velocity .22LR. I wouldn't shoot Mini-Mags or .22 Magnum, though.
It's a bit hard to describe without trying it yourself- unlike a single-six with GOOD light trigger, this feels like a heavily worn sear I suppose. The soft metals probably did just that.
My dad had the single action model he bought before I was born in the mid 70's. He put many, many thousands of rounds thru it then so did I. I'd go out in my back yard when I was about 12 and shoot hundreds of rounds thru it at pop cans, soup cans, anything that could be a target. Then in the mid 90's, I was shooting it when we were camping and it suddenly blew back a bunch of junk in my face. I stopped and looked at it and it had a crack across the top, rear of the frame. We pulled the firing pin out of it and never shot it again. He still has it somewhere.
This advice is intended for good people, who "do what they have to do," not crooks, who are doing it, anyway. These are the best handguns to carry concealed, if you don't have a CCP. If you get caught, and they confiscate your gun, it's no great loss.
I had a .38 Special RG double action revolver. Say whay you will but that this was accurate and reliable. It wasn't pretty but it got the job done.
That's 8 pint cans of Stella and packet of king-size rizla. UK subbed
Ah my first 25 dollar 22short revolver i bought after a shift at Sonic just for it to send metal shavings out the side of the cylinder
$12 in 1965 was equal to about $116.00 in 2024 dollars.
Used to know someone who had a DA/SA in .45 Colt. It was a German produced gun, issued for state patrol service.
Never had a problem and I've looked for one like it since, with no luck.
A friend of mine has the double action, along with an identical toy pistol. He inherited them from his dad who was a lawyer involved with a law suite involving someone who got shot by a police officer after the toy gun was mistaken for a real gun (back in the early 80s, San Antonio TX) and somehow his dad ended up with them when the case was over.
I can attest the RG66 just came with that light of a trigger. I’ve owned two and handled two others. They all have scary light triggers by design for better or worse.
If you want a 22. Revolver Peacemaker styled than just get a Haritage Rough Rider.
Quite a few years back I worked in a gun shop; we had a few of these in the case. The most common question about them was "Is that a real gun?" To my knowledge they never sold.
These are basically the .32 revolvers from fallout 3 that dont do any damage
I have one like the small one you show. Half the time it doesn't shoot, if it does it doesn't hit, lol. It was my granddad's though.
In my experience the 66 was pretty decent. The one in the video is the roughest one I've seen. But they were cheap, and are now old, so im not surprised.
I inherited one of these (RG10) from my dear old granny. She always had it in her purse. I don't think she ever shot it. Neither did I. I sold it, but don't recall what I got for it.
.22 is a horrible defensive caliber, because there are too many round failures, get anything centerfire above a .25 acp
I miss my rg10 was dope little blicky
You have to wear glasses due to the Spaulding it’s pretty bad but it’s not a bad plinker you could get a small bucket of these for 60$ at one time
The old Saturday night specials cheap junk 😂 they do work some not so good
The 38/40, 66 and 63, and 57 are passable, they're fun little cheapos
Lol- my Pop has had the .22 short firing one for a loooong time hanging out in a drawer. I’ve never fired it or seen it fired.
Never even heard of 'em.... subbed.
my first ever gun was a RG59 five shot rubberball revolver. Sweet memories
Great video I’d love to see more of the one at the end
I remember when the RG-10's were going for $19.99 and sold by the bucket load.
I mean, even with inflation most people wouldn’t pay more than $25 for one today 😂
Like the Trabant; they'll become collectible because of how terrible they are
Conversation starter: "Wow, what's that shitty looking handgun?"
I have a rare Rohm 38 special revolver that is incredibly shitty but I love it
Very interesting. Thank You. How I remember the vile things. I have never seen one of those holsters though. Those were the original "Saturday Night Specials".
Had one, called it lil' shaver.
Pawn shops that sell Saturday night specials should be sued by the buyer especially not knowing how garbage they are and especially so if they charge a ridiculous amount that coulf get you a much better quality handgun