Remember these??

[durtyzulu]

Ha! I dig this one out from time to time just for funsies.

http://i1130.photobucket.com/albums/m526/durtyzulu/Snapbucket/0b045457-orig.jpg

Edited August 2, 2011 by durtyzulu

[Westwindmike]

I have one of those new in the box, unfired that I bought back in about 1979. Are they worth anything now?

[VERO1]

I think I paid $29 for mine, new in the box. That was in the late eighties though. Someone on gunowners sales forum has one listed for $200! They are willing to throw in a partial box of ammo though.

Edited August 1, 2011 by VERO1

[Luckyforward]

Wow . . . haven't seen these for years! LOL

[graycrait]

I went on a Raven, Lorcin, Bryco, Jennings kick for a while. If the springs are good, the guns are clean, deburred and oiled they work pretty good if the ammo is right. However, I did tell a guy who said his Jimenez is wore out to dismantle the gun and destroy the upper and lower and just throw it away preferrably in separate locations with deep water.

[Dolomite_supafly]

I traded one for a Savage bolt gun recently. It went bang every time I pulled the trigger.

Dolomite

[durtyzulu]

That photo should be better ^^

I found this in the box, in another box, in a pile of boxes, etc. While cleaning out my great aunt's house after she passed away. I think she bought it new, never fired it, and eventually forgot she had it (she lived to be 102). They're not worth much and not what I consider reliable. I like it cause it was hers.

[glockster157]

I stopped selling those types of pistols back when I had a shop with a indoor range. I had several customers buy them and then have them break before they got through a box of shells on the range. Just not worth the hassle. Hi-point is the exception.

[mav]

I like it cause it was hers.

That's a good reason.

[East_TN_Patriot]

Man, I have busted up more of those cheap guns (including the Raven, Lorcin, and Jennings/Bryco) than I can count! I worked for a gun shop that would destroy the guns for the local police department as a public service (meaning they stripped the springs, screws, and small parts off of the decent guns before destroying the frame/slide/barrel/cylinder). We would take those little cheap guns and whack them with a small sledgehammer. They would shatter. Then we enjoyed crushing the barrels in the bench vise using our finger to turn the handle. The gunsmith didn't even bother stripping any parts off those cheap guns.

We had to cut up a machined receiver on an SKS once. We used a hacksaw. We should have taken it to a welding shop and had them cut it with a torch.