Help ID this old clunker.
Greetings all.
My friend Cesar asked for my assistance identifying this old clunker. All we know is that it reads "Made in Germany", and "Cal 22".
Thanks in advance.
R/
Dr D.
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It looks like an RG10 made by Rohm.
With hand carved walnut grips replacing the factory plastic, probably worth more than the gun... if they fit anything else, which they don't.0 -
Agree. If you grind one side flat, they make a halfway decent paperweight. RG- IIRC was for Rheinemetall Gemeinschaft. You would also encounter the name Rohm. They were basically zinc alloy, commonly called pot metal. Cylinder was steel. Some had a steel barrel, some a pot metal barrel with a steel liner. 0 -
Jorge,
That caliber should be .22 SHORT. Your ejector rod is missing. RG is sometimes stretched out to Rohm Gun. Rohm made them, and they were sold by many different U.S. importers, with labels like Valor, CDM, and Puppy. The RG-10 was sometimes bought by the truckload, pre-1968 Gun Cotrol Act, by some gun dealers. The RG-10 sold for under $20.00. The Gun Control Act stopped importation of small, cheap, so-called "Saturday Night Specials", so your friend's gun is not any newer than that.
Those Rohm/ RG firearms were just a variation of their teargas & signal guns. They do not hold up to a lot of use. Rohm/ RG was stil in business, until 2010. Many years before that,they went back to making only signal guns & blank guns. They also sold air guns. Rohm also has a machinery business. Wikipedia says this about them:
quote:In the early 1950s R?hm GmbH of Sontheim/Brenz, which was traditionally focused on the production of chucking tools, diversified its product line and began to produce alarm guns, flare guns and handguns. R?hm's product line of firearms was primarily established under the brand name "RG". In 2010 the management of the R?hm GmbH decided to sell the complete manufacture of firearms to the UMAREX GmbH & Co. KG of Arnsberg and to refocus on its core market of chucking tools.0 -
Thanks all for your replies. 0
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