HELP! What the heck is an RG 23?

the life expectancy of an RG was about 100 rounds.
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100 rounds my butt. I've got one that's fired thousands. I'll admit they're not the best guns in the world but for the money they were and still are pretty decent.
 
got one and like it

I have a RG 23 that I bought new a long time ago. I have shot several thousand rounds through it and it is as tight now as it was the day I bought it. It is very good target gun, it will shoot the bulls eye at ten yards all day long. oh I have several other pistals to shoot that cost a lot more. but it is still a good gun and shoots just fine.
just my two cents worth, but I like the little gun and am not afraid of it in the least.
 
Shinnery jim,

Thanks for proving my post above,

I rest my case in favor of the cheap exception to the rule that states:
"You get what you pay for".

On the other hand, would it not be nice if they were making the same in steel?
 
RG 23 is better than you think.

Guys,
You can hate on RGs all you want. I have an RG 23 chambered in .22LR (Yes they made them in other calibers. .22 short for example.) and it has served me very well. Only one misfire in 4 yrs. and that was because of cheap ammo. I ran the same ammo through my Remington Fieldmaster and it didn't fire in that either. Joseph, I say go for it! If its anything like mine, you'll love it. The absolute only thing wrong with my revolver, is the pin holding the trigger guard. It comes out sometimes and the guard falls off. And thats because the previous owner disassembled it one too many times. All in all, wonderful gun. I have a gunsmith friend whose going to replace that pin for me. After that, it'll be flawless.
 
My friend has one (in .22LR), and he gave me the privilege of firing it on one occasion. Supposedly it's been fired quite a lot, but it didn't look too bad. In any case, it didn't blow up, or fall apart or any of that stuff. Seemed wildly inaccurate however and cylinder got gummed up really quickly after firing very few rounds, to the point that it would barely rotate.

If you want a real cheap .22LR revolver that comes with a better reputation and by far better accuracy, save up an additional $25-50 and get an H&R.
 
My wife inherited a RG in .38 spl from her father. they used to shoot together a lot when she was younger that gun still goes bang everytime the only complaint I have of it is that it shoots 6 inches to high so at the average pistol range if you aim at the ground in front of the target you will get on paper:D
 
I have owned two RG revolvers. A 38 and a 22. The 38 was not bad. I even missed it after I traded it. Replaced it with a Taurus. How ever the 22. I could not get rid of fast enough. Picked it up used. Looked good. But what a piece of junk.
 
Those Rohm revolvers were the byproduct of German gun laws, mainly produced in the free-to- purchase blank/teargas versions with blocked barrel. The use of the zinc frame was simply due to that circumstance, they weren't designed to have to take any recoil. There is simply no market in Germany for "plinking" guns due to the restrictions on purchasing non-sporting non-hunting guns. Few people will "waste" one of their restricted number of guns on something to bang beer cans around with.
 
Hey Guys!

Glad I stumbled onto this thread.

I have an old RG 14, beat and battered, that I bought used for a snake and varmint gun. It lives in the barn and has dispatched more coons, snakes and possums than I can count. It handles .22 rat shot, long rifles, longs, shorts and caps equally well, has never failed and is accurate enough at close range.

However, one of its weaknesses is that to load or unload it one must unscrew and pull a cylinder pin. A few days ago I LOST that pin, so my little trash gun is now really trash unless someone can tell me where to get a replacement pin at a reasonable cost. (The pistol is hardly worth repairing but does exactly what it is supposed to do here.)

Anyone know where I can get a cylinder pin?
Chuck
 
I just inherited an RG31 that Dad bought for Mom at a Pawn in FL backin '82 for $54. Cylinder and bbl for .32SW long.

Seems to have same problems noted above. Lock position gizmo for the wheel not operating.

Glad Mom never had to fire it!

Nice looking paperweight though.
 
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