A little history before we begin:
In the early 2000s, when we were just starting to get the R9s out the door from our little shop in Farmingdale, New York, a fellow that goes by the name of Duane Daiker contacted us and asked if it was alright to put up a forum on the Internet about our pistol. Well, I put that by my brother, Karl Rohrbaugh, and explained it would be good to do. Karl agreed, I contacted Duane and gave him our consent and blessings to create “The Rohrbaugh Forum” ~ The Unofficial Rohrbaugh Firearms Forum. It has turned out to be a haven for all enthusiasts who love our little creation, and Karl and I are very happy of its content. While we were in business making and updating our design, we were having a blast . . . . . a dream come true. Then came the time that another company, Remington, made us an offer we could not refuse, so now here we are retired and doing things we wanted to do when we were putting in 50 – 60 hours a week or more into the workings of a gun company. Now that a little over a year has passed since the sale, I felt it was ok to finally join in here on your forum and help out in some way, if I can. I will try to answer your questions without overstepping my contractual agreement with Remington. If anyone should ask such behind the scenes questions I feel are private, I intend to keep them that way with respect to everyone both here as R9 owners and the new owners of Rohrbaugh Firearms Corp.
With that said, I will do my best to answer your questions starting here today with questions 72AV8R has put forth.
Welcome aboard everyone to “Ask ECR”, a.k.a. – Eric C. Rohrbaugh, Former Co-Founder of Rohrbaugh Firearms Corp.
To answer your questions 72, here we go:
There were close to 7,000 units produced from early 2002 until late 2013. As for warranty work, I would place legitimate repairs somewhere around the 300 or so mark, with an additional 200-300 sent in as “repairs”, however, those were more owner related issues which included installing the early directional outer recoil springs in backwards, causing them to go over the recoil system sleeve and causing the gun to jam. Other times the gun was so filthy, I had a tough time pulling the slide back to unassemble it from the frame! After a thorough cleaning and oiling, install a fresh recoil spring and the gun would work fine. So, you see, most problems we had seemed to be from owner neglect or installing parts incorrectly. So be it, that’s the way it was. You also ask if we had enough replacement parts. . . . Yes, we usually did. Once in a while, we would be short on slides, so if an early R9 came back with a cracked slide, which plagued us for a short time, and thank goodness that was a short lived problem, we needed to wait until slides were ready for assembly for those repairs. We would contact the owner and let them know we were waiting for slides to come back from the heat treat process, etc., and they were always fine with that information and waited patiently. Our customers, for the most part, have always been stellar. The spare parts that went to Remington, should keep everyone happy for some time to come. The only parts that may be an issue is the larger parts, that being: The slides, barrels and frames. Remington purchased the company who were making our barrels, so they will probably be in good shape there. As for the slides and frames, I have no inside information on those and cannot speculate either way on them. As for Maria, after her stint with us as office manager, she moved around 2011 to Oregon. She is there with her family on a small ranch with her horses outside of Bend and is currently doing internet sales with her health food company venture. She looks amazing and is happy there.
Until next time. . . . . . Be safe everyone!
Regards,
Eric R.
