Sean- there are cap guns, and blank firing guns. I remember RG making a 22 revolver (real gun) and a blank (only) firing revolver that were so much alike, you could scare a police officer into shooting the heck out of you if you pointed the blank gun at him. Most were 22 blank- altho Europeans also used a strange little 8mm blank in some guns. You MAY have a cap gun, or you may have a blank (or starter's) gun.
Numrich Archiver
Joined: February 2010
Posted: January 28, 2005 12:39 AM
Sean- there are cap guns, and blank firing guns. I remember RG making a 22 revolver (real gun) and a blank (only) firing revolver that were so much alike, you could scare a police officer into shooting the heck out of you if you pointed the blank gun at him. Most were 22 blank- altho Europeans also used a strange little 8mm blank in some guns. You MAY have a cap gun, or you may have a blank (or starter's) gun.
I don't know if you're still looking for help after this many years, but I bought an RG2 back in the late '50's or early '60's. I bought it new, through the mail from an advertiser in Mechanics Illustrated. I was about 15 at the time.
I still have it, had some blanks fired in it, but it still works pretty well. It fires .22 crimped blanks, the last time I bought them they were sold in a tin of 50 for about a dollar, but thy cost a lot more now. If you do a google search using "crimped .22 blanks" you'll come up with quite a few sources.
You probably know this by now, but the mechanism that pulls the clip holding the blanks through the gun needs to be regularly cleaned and lubricated, as the blank is fired right wher the tit that moves the clip rides. If theres a lot of friction in the area from burnt powder, the tit keeps slipping.
If you'r looking for another RG2, let me know; after 50 years, it's time for someone else to take it out and use it.
Alec
Alec Hidell
Joined: December 2011
Posted: March 3, 2012 02:18 AM
I don't know if you're still looking for help after this many years, but I bought an RG2 back in the late '50's or early '60's. I bought it new, through the mail from an advertiser in Mechanics Illustrated. I was about 15 at the time.
I still have it, had some blanks fired in it, but it still works pretty well. It fires .22 crimped blanks, the last time I bought them they were sold in a tin of 50 for about a dollar, but thy cost a lot more now. If you do a google search using "crimped .22 blanks" you'll come up with quite a few sources.
You probably know this by now, but the mechanism that pulls the clip holding the blanks through the gun needs to be regularly cleaned and lubricated, as the blank is fired right wher the tit that moves the clip rides. If theres a lot of friction in the area from burnt powder, the tit keeps slipping.
If you'r looking for another RG2, let me know; after 50 years, it's time for someone else to take it out and use it.
Alec
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This picture is from the 1960 Shooter's Bible. All of these West German blank pistols, regardless of markings, appear to be exactly the same, possibly produced by one manufacturer.
This picture is from the 1960 Shooter's Bible. All of these West German blank pistols, regardless of markings, appear to be exactly the same, possibly produced by one manufacturer.
Yes, that's the same style, except mine was made or at least marketed by Rohm. See photo.
Alec Hidell
Joined: December 2011
Posted: March 31, 2012 10:00 PM
Would this be the starter pistol being discussed?
Yes, that's the same style, except mine was made or at least marketed by Rohm. See photo.
Louis Losidoublel@valstar.nethttps://www.gunpartscorp.com/brblog/post/report/https://www.gunpartscorp.com/brblog/post/message/
Zephyr is a Rohm Gesellschaft trademark used on pistols imported by Stoeger Arms Corp. So, both blank pistols, and probably the one marked START imported by S.E. Lazlo, were produced by Rohm.
Louis Losi
Joined: January 1970
Posted: April 1, 2012 06:37 AM
Zephyr is a Rohm Gesellschaft trademark used on pistols imported by Stoeger Arms Corp. So, both blank pistols, and probably the one marked START imported by S.E. Lazlo, were produced by Rohm.
