Rogers & Spencer
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I have one. It is a Euroarms. I forget what year it is made. But I paid $150 for it sold as new at a gun show a few years ago. Other than a quite stiff main spring it's fine. It has a hair trigger. There is no safety notches, or pins between each chamber. Caps are easy to get on since it has a deep cut in the cylinder for placement. I feel that it is a bit heavier than a Remington, but a easier point of aim.
I can't comment on R&S's imported by others but the Euroarms quickly gained a reputation as an accurate and dependable revolver straight out of the box. A friend gave me one to use and I shot (box stock) it with very good results for a year or so till he decided he needed $60 one day and it became mine. I continued to shoot it for another year and then one day turned it over to Tom Ball for one of his legendary reworks. When it came back my average score jumped a couple of points and I started accumulating medals at a faster rate. I can't say what they are worth today but if I needed another R&S and found an excellent used Euroarms I probably go $300 given today's prices.
On to the cons: They lack the pointability of a Remington which in turn is nowhere near a Colt. The bore is higher above the grip than the Remington which means the barrel will have climbed higher before the ball exits. The grip shape isn't that great and the gun slips through your hand more than a Rem. under recoil and that makes it shoot still higher. In a normal match I simply regripped the revolver with every shot. In a team match where speed is important I started with a good grip and when the revolver recoiled till the guard came up against my saluting finger I fired the next 5 that way. The hammer is both heavy and tall, lay one alongside a Rem. hammer. As it starts to fall it will block your sight picture. The weight and height gives it a lot of leverage and it impacts the gun hard driving the muzzle down. Another shortcoming is the loading lever retaining screw. It can allow the lever to come out of the frame while you are ramming a ball down which results in a bent cylinder pin and takes you out of action till you can find 2 rocks to straighten it with.
They are very easy to cap and are completely free of cap jam problems. The lack of safety pins or notches was never an issue for me. I loaded 6 for a match and then shot them. If I were to carry one in the field I would only load 5 as I have always done in all my revolvers. On the Colt clones I have the pins are useless as the hammer doesn't hook on any of them. The Rems. and Spiller & Burrs are nearly as bad as the hammer fits the notches so poorly it is possible to rotate the cylinder without much effort.
If you are serious about winning and are planing on spending some serious bucks on a rework the Remington clones are the only way to go. That said all the shortcomings I mentioned regarding the R&S can be overcome with practice and determination. I did very well with mine and if I ever get serious about competing again I'll just blow the dust off it and put it back to work.
Disclaimer: :haha: All the above applies where the rules state no modifications to the grips are permitted, the sights must be non-adjustable and you are permitted only minor
deviations from original.
On to the cons: They lack the pointability of a Remington which in turn is nowhere near a Colt. The bore is higher above the grip than the Remington which means the barrel will have climbed higher before the ball exits. The grip shape isn't that great and the gun slips through your hand more than a Rem. under recoil and that makes it shoot still higher. In a normal match I simply regripped the revolver with every shot. In a team match where speed is important I started with a good grip and when the revolver recoiled till the guard came up against my saluting finger I fired the next 5 that way. The hammer is both heavy and tall, lay one alongside a Rem. hammer. As it starts to fall it will block your sight picture. The weight and height gives it a lot of leverage and it impacts the gun hard driving the muzzle down. Another shortcoming is the loading lever retaining screw. It can allow the lever to come out of the frame while you are ramming a ball down which results in a bent cylinder pin and takes you out of action till you can find 2 rocks to straighten it with.
They are very easy to cap and are completely free of cap jam problems. The lack of safety pins or notches was never an issue for me. I loaded 6 for a match and then shot them. If I were to carry one in the field I would only load 5 as I have always done in all my revolvers. On the Colt clones I have the pins are useless as the hammer doesn't hook on any of them. The Rems. and Spiller & Burrs are nearly as bad as the hammer fits the notches so poorly it is possible to rotate the cylinder without much effort.
If you are serious about winning and are planing on spending some serious bucks on a rework the Remington clones are the only way to go. That said all the shortcomings I mentioned regarding the R&S can be overcome with practice and determination. I did very well with mine and if I ever get serious about competing again I'll just blow the dust off it and put it back to work.
Disclaimer: :haha: All the above applies where the rules state no modifications to the grips are permitted, the sights must be non-adjustable and you are permitted only minor
deviations from original.
