@@vodkaone1053 I got one a civil war grip edition in .22LR for $179. I order the .22wmr cylinder in combination with their We the People 1776 grips. Civil war edition went on sale for $129 so bought another one and swapped the 1776 grips on the second one and installed the .22wmr cylinder in that one.
@@ramwall1500 It's .22 dude, you don't need top grade steel. I mean, you don't want to be like Rohm, but you don't need to be closer to Ruger on that scale, yet from what I see and hear from owners and my own experiences with them, these are fine. The reason the costs are low is because they're die casting the frames and they're not buying $250k CNC machines to do what a $200 broach on a $100 arbor press can.
Thank you for the Heritage factory tour. I just bought my first revolver and I'm 69 years old. I bought a Herutage Rough Rider with a 4;75" barrel and stag grips. It has already became my favortie plinker. I used to work in a steel mill where we machined railroad track. I picked up and down 100 lb. pieces of railroad track 200 times an hour. Gun parts look a lot easier than railroad track. But I do know the employees at Heritage are a lot more accurate than I was with railroad track. My hat is off to each and every one of them. I did make a part for an old Stevens shotgun once on the same machine where I cut 39' rail for our foreman. I had to take it home that night to drill and tap it, because it was so small compared to the other items we worked on in the steel shop. But it worked and our foreman was well pleased. Once again, thanks for the tour, and my hat is off to each and every employee at Heritage.
Thanks to all the people on the line. I just bought my first heritage revolver today. Good to see the people who’s hard work went into my new quality firearm. 👍
Great to see where my gun was made! In these current times of low supply in firearms and ammo I've consistently seen Heritage revolvers for sale at local stores and online. 22 Ammo hasn't been as hard to get as others so that was one reason I bought the 4.75" model. Great little gun.
Damn! Nice setup! Lots of hands on and lots of manual machining and labor! Love it. Love the anti fatigue mats and comfortable chairs for the workforce. Love the lean concept but too many manufactures and lean facilitators forget the fact that you absolutely have to have people comfortable while they do tedious repetitive labor. It isn't always about cranking out as much product as you can. You just cannot make good production if your guys and gals are wore the heck out. Ive ran CNC for over 30 years but there's something about seeing a young man manually pushing a broach with a arbor press that gets me going. Says a lot to their guys that they wanted to follow along the brand with the new owners. I hope they continue to treat them right. One of the 45's will be my next purchase for sure. Make me a real Good one!
I have owned five or six of these. Always got sold or traded, and I always miss them when they're gone. So I bought another one today. NIB for $139. Just has the .22 LR cylinder, but I found that you don't really need the magnum cylinder anyway. With Mini Mags or Stingers, they kill the hell out of big jackrabbits in .22 LR and the mags are expensive to shoot and don't shoot to the same point of aim as the .22 LR anyway. I always refinish the grips and tone down the red-wood looking color on those grips. They look better in my eyes with a flatter finish and darker. The grain always comes out great, and they look much more expensive than they are. Great gun for the price, and it's nice to support those workers in the US.
@Peter Angles what do you mean? As in you don't understand how you operate a single action revolver? Well, this particular gun is modeled after the classic single action army design, except this has a thumb safety so you can safely and with peace of mind load six, with the standard SAA there was no firing pin safety, anyways to load a cartridge you pull the hammer back to the second click you hear/feel also referred to as half cock or the second notch, this will allow your cylinder to spin clockwise freely, well mostly it will click between chambers, you open your loading gate on the right side of the cylinder which exposes your chambers, you then can load your gun, if loading for carry it is suggested to load five keeping an empty chamber under the hammer, some designs have transfer bar safeties that block the firing pin until the trigger is being pulled, with these loading all six chambers is okay, as with the heritage revolvers with their thumb safety hammer block, now you pull the hammer back the rest of the way to the 4th click, make sure the safety is off on heritage revolvers, make sure of your target and what lay beyond, and with it pointed at the intended target in a safe direction, pull the trigger, to fire again simply cock your hammer again back the 4th click and pull the trigger again, repeat until empty, bring your hammer back to half cock, and you pull back on your ejector rod, the little lever under the barrel with a spring in it to eject spent cases and then reload and repeat.
I would have never purchased one of these revolvers if the gun store owner had not convinced me I would be happy with my purchase. I bought the .22 4 3/4 inch barrel six shot and was impressed. I went back to the store and bought three more. I bought the 3 1/2 inch barrel, another 4 3/4 inch barrel .22 and for less than a hundred dollars more, bought the .357 Magnum 4 1/2 inch barrel. The gun is also stamped Pietta of Italy along with the Heritage name. All of those guns worked flawlessly and I put some 180 grain .357 loads through it without any problems. Dollar for dollar, for a great inexpensive gun in the single action category, I would take these over the other brands and have enough money left over for a ton of ammo. I do not believe you could go wrong with this company. They do pack their guns with quality.
Love my 4 3/4" combo .22lr and magnum had a blast taking my friends little boy to the range when he was 8. He started with Daisy Red Ryder at 5 and an Umarex CO2 blowback semiautomatic pistol at 6. RSOs loved him and felt his gun safety was better than a lot of adults.
I bought the Heritage Rough Rider .22LR and .22 Magnum combo about 3 months ago. I have fired this revolver almost every weekend since buying it. I paid about $180 for the complete set up. The gun is very well balanced, made very well, and was accurate enough right out of the box that I didn't need to do anything with the front sight adjustment. It has become one of my favorite guns to shoot and I like it so well that this month I plan to order the .357 version of it. Can't wait to get THAT one!
Always nice when a manufacturer creates a quality product at a low cost, creating high value for the customer. Best business model ever. Love companies like this.
Ordered my first Heritage revolver. For the price you cant beat it. Thanks for the video tour of the manufacturing facility. It was nice to see how the gun is manufactured.
Have the .22 LR/Mag combo in the 4 3/4 barrel length and love it. For the price it is what it is, great plinking gun with no problems. Didn’t realize that they’re a Taurus subsidiary, thanks for that info. Have seen the .22 LR on sale at local shops for $100, can’t beat it‼️
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My 1st grandson was born this past Sept. and my first Christmas present for him was a Heritage .22 revolver. Of course it'll be a while before he'll be shooting with me but he's already got a great little gun. His parents and I have shot it an love it.
Just today bought a Rough Rider from my local Dunham's Sports retailer here in beautiful Joplin, MO. "Down at the mall". It's a 6" barreled .22lr only with Cocobolo grips. The staff could not be nicer and encouraged me to pick the one I liked best out of (8) on display. Look but don't handle. Best part was the $109.99 sale price. 8.75% sales tax. They ran a disposable cable lock thru the removed cylinder and walked me to the front door but it was a generally cool transaction. I did quite a bit of research before kicking down my 120 bucks and feel good about the whole thing. I had watched this video over a year ago and it looks to me like there is a pretty motivated and competent workforce at the Heritage plant. I was considering buying a 2018 Dodge Grand Caravan minivan recently and watched a video of how they make the 3.6 V6 engines in Windsor, Ontario Canada. Not nearly as inspiring.... Buncha listless, disinterested, individuals going thru the motions... I know I'm getting my money's worth on this baby. People make the difference! Think I'll keep my money on the Dodge. Wonder why they (FCA) would even let that video of the engine plant out.
Damn right, you can tell a lot by the people attitudes. I went on a tour of the GM plant in Arlington and I know I want a new GM car or truck. went to a Toyota plant once not one bit surprised they make a quality auto. those people are on top of their manufacturing no bull shit. pride in manufacturing is a good thing ive a couple foreign pistol with alloy frames damn good pistols light too. pot metal and aluminum alloy two different things a little titanium mixed in makes a world of difference
Ive owned three or four of these revolvers in the past and currently own one also. All of mine came in the old blue box, instead of the brown.. Not sure if they changed the box color when the company changed ownership or not.. Ive always had good luck with these guns and never had a problem what so ever with the function and durability... I like the fact that there so affordable. I love the big name brand guns, but spending lots of money gets old after awhile. With these guns its a win win situation... Another gun that gets talked poorly about is the Pheonix Arms HP22. They are also priced cheap and affordable, but are great little guns aswell.
Interesting....I would have like to see more and explained more how the front sights are installed. I've seen several reviews where the Point of impact is off, either low and to the left or way to the right. Since the sights are fixed many are having to do some type of modifications. I noticed that there were no test shots for accuracy at this plant just test firing.!!! If they have "Quality Control" I would like to see that process in-depth. Thanks for video.
Just purchased a 6.5" Rough Rider .22LR / .22WMR combo today. Gave it a basic cleaning and took it to the Range. .22LR would fire about 2 of 6 consistently and .22WMR about the same. The remaining rounds were light strikes and did not fire. When the Trigger was pulled, the Hammer was getting caught about a quarter way through it's travel, slowing it down and causing light strikes. Also, the action felt really "gritty" and the firing pin was a bit Rusty. Every single screw holding the Grip / Trigger Guard to the Gun was completely loose or ready to fall out. I took the Revolver home, completely disassembled and cleaned it; and polished many of the internal components. It now fires 6/6 on .22LR and .22 WMR Cartridges. Took a few hours of work but was well worth it. If you're not into, or don't have any knowledge of Gunsmithing, I'd recommend buying the Ruger Wrangler for fifty or so dollars more. If you like to tinker a bit, the Heritage is a nice little Revolver. Plenty accurate for "plinking around". I'd buy another Heritage. Cool little Revolvers. You roll the Dice on whether or not yours is going to work right out of the box. Shame they tout "Made in the USA" and they barely work, but for and approximate cost of $160, one shouldn't expect much nowadays.
I was surprised to hear that Taurus owns Heritage. My $500 Taurus Tracker 992 was defective right out of the box (eventually traded it off for a Ruger 22/45), but my $200 Heritage Rough Rider has been going strong for years now. Would love to own the 9 inch barrel version with adjustable sights.
A lot of hand work. Raw material converted in fine finished product. A lot of people using machines. For a product of usd 200. Now I ask myself why a phone of usd 1000 cannot be made in America. And let me be clear I'm not American. But very proud of purchasing any product stamped with the MADE IN THE USA . Hope that this phone maker bring that phones factories to USA.
I work the gun counter at a store in northern Kentucky. We sell LOTS of rough riders. Great little revolvers. For the money, they can’t be beat in my opinion. They remind me of my grandfathers Ives and Johnson, but with a safety.
They may test fire them for function at the factory but they missed the muzzle crown mar on mine. Marred muzzle crown brand new from the factory. They should not have missed that in their inspection. Meaning they don't test for accuracy or even bullet groups. So I did my own crown job on it and now it shoots good groups, not the shotgun pattern it used to shoot. Overall its a good revolver for the cheap price and what it is and I would get another one despite the defect mine had. My neighbor liked mine so much she got a bird's head three inch.
I own three of the guns, two 22 with a six inch barrel, and the other with yes the sixteen inch barrel they are the most amazing firearm made really impressed with this guns firing, and the quality it there, thanks for making this firearm s and at decent price
TY my Dream Gun now. Gave My 6 shooter 2 Daughter 4 protection! Only gun left is a 20 gauge s/barrel. LiL 2 big 4 CCW! So TY 4 tour sealed my conviction 2 aquire one someday. Gotta buy new left my name @ 4 pawn shops now 13 months & nev er a used one came in 4 pawn or trade. Good sign they R reliable & Keepers TY 4 ur videos also !
I bought one at Rural King for about $139 out the door 6 1/2 inch barrel 22 Long rifle only one complaint I have is I like the old style heritage boxes with the canon and stuff on them I think that you should be allowed to order them I have went to their website and you can’t get a case/box right now but you can get an acrylic display stand,,,also I can’t get every single grip that I would like to they should offer Betsy Ross and all the rest of them,,, thanks it’s hard to get certain models the case treated satin finish hard to get,,,I do like all the different options for cylinders two different engraved I noticed one stainless steel and then regular blued I thought that was nice,,,however I would like to see the original boxes come back display case order options at least,,, I would like to see more models available through Rural King right now I’ve noticed there’s about two the shorter barrel and the one that I’ve got the 6 1/2 inch I may go for the shorter one also,,,I think it’s something like 4 1/2 inches,,,be nice to have them both by the time you’re done with different accessories and options you can trick them out really nice with a custom cylinder and custom grips and then that gun is yours you on it you created your signature firearm custom leather holster and all,,, my 22 caliber long rifle Heritage Roughrider came with an offer if I contact the company they will send me a 22 Magnum cylinder for about $30 with free shipping I’ll probably do that also how ever I’ll probably get both engraved cylinders in 22 Long rifle and also one stainless steel cylinder in Long rifle as well,,, then of course I will have to look at the beautiful leather holsters they have for their sidearms very nice 👍
you have all the equipment needed to build a really good gun I think what is lacking is quality control and a whole lot more emphasis on finishing I bought four of the Roughriders yesterday all of them had rust on them
Tarus bought them? Stick a fork in 'em their done! Was going to buy one until this. Spending way too much on a Ruger but it will last Plant manager sounds confused.
Great video. Just goes to show that Heritage is definitely not junk like all of the gun snobs say they are. I own several and have never had an issue. Will continue to buy more.
they're imported from China, using pot metal most likely. But they claim to be 100% American made. They are only 90%, and him admitting they come from China, would lose them sales
The frames/small parts are made in Italy by Pietta. They aren't pot metal they're cast aluminum. Ruger uses cast frames in every firearm they've ever made and nobody complains about Rugers quality.
@@outspokengenius For their best guns Ruger investment cast the frames in steel, though, don't they? The Heritage Rough Rider frames are die cast in aluminum like some of Ruger's lesser guns, and I've heard complaints about the latter.
@@danvondrasek Where do Heritage specifically claim that their guns are 100% American made? Granted, they're more vague about it concerning their .22 LR revolvers than the big bores, but I don't see where they say "100%" or "all" American made (maybe they do and I missed it, so show us where). Clearly quite a bit of work is done at the US factory, so they feel justified in saying just "American-made" or "Made in the USA", which legally they can if they meet the minimum percentage. In this globalized era, even high-end Chinese flashlights usually have some parts made outside of China, such as the LED emitters themselves, which are usually imported from the USA, South Korea, or Japan. And like Kyle said, the parts that Heritage import are from Italy, almost certainly from Pietta, with whom Heritage already have a relationship for the parts of their big bore revolvers. At least it's not China, for what it's worth.
I bet those diecast parts are shipped up from Brazil from the Rossi plant. I've had a Rough Rider for 2 years for plinking purposes. I've put box after box of CCI and Aguila through it with zero problems. The die cast aluminum parts only support the load bearing parts of the gun.....the cylinder and barrel......perfectly fine for .22 LR. Wouldn't want to see a Super Blackhawk with diecast parts though.
It is nice to own something made in the USA... I like my Heritage Rough Rider 4.75 in and 6.5 in models... I had to have one repaired and they did a good job... so they do stand behind their products... I also own a pair of Grado headphones... also made in the USA
Well, to tell the truth, I was on the fence and after researching I've made up my mind I guess I'll be buying the heritage with that funky ass safety, man what an eyesore. but their factory video is what won me over. spending close to 400 for a .22 is insane.
I love my heritage 22 lr. Can't wait to fire The magnum rounds now that I have the mag cylinder. Can you please tell me what the best line of 22lr & 22mag should I fire
Their 22lr was my first pistol, loved it and so did everyone that shot it. Mine shot smoother than a friends Ruger 22. Heritage was lighter with a better trigger feel.
The only problem is that while they are test fired there is absolutely no inspection of "how it shoots". It can mechanically shoot but that is totally different than being accurate. Not picking on them, as I'm sure most other manufacturers do something similar. So you may get a revolver that shoots way off point of aim, shaves lead off the bullet because the forcing cone is not cut good, etc.
Hey Patrick how about getting ahold of a heritage rough rider 45 with a 7.5 barrel for me. Everywhere I've looked its sold out or out of stock. How about cracking the whip at this factory and tell them to get on the ball sir. I would really love one of these guns. 😉
@@davide9536 No they ban cheap guns, specifically by banning ones made with pot metal frames. If you want one of these in Minnesota you have to pay extra for the steel frame version. Stupid law.
They must have it more automated seven years later...I haven't seen a Barkeep without a chewed up receiver finish on the right side in front of the cylinder yet...(from clamps/vice?) I know they are inexpensive but has to be a inexpensive fix to that...and I guess the inspector/quality control check on that was automated now...or they need new glasses.
I got one a civil war grip edition in .22LR for $179. I order the .22wmr cylinder in combination with their We the People 1776 grips. Civil war edition went on sale for $129 so bought another one and swapped the 1776 grips on the second one and installed the .22wmr cylinder in that one.
Just got a .22 rough rider for $109.00 at palmetto state armory. Bought a 22 mag cylinder for it directly from Heritage, but 3 weeks have passed and i still haven't received it...
All that works on the cylinder just to cast the frame and grip ?🤔 I'm still going to buy a bunch of these 👍keep the price down what Thay are doing is working just fine no need to rush in to changing it👍 thanks for showing us thair factory
Hello, I've got a problem with my heritage revolver handgun, when I pull the hammer back the cylinder doesn't lock in place when you fire it's miss fire,
I love mine. Thanks for doing this video. The guy was a little dodgy on a couple of questions...why is it this big secret that the parts are made by another supplier? Practically every gun company there is gets SOMETHING made by someone else.
Shit, at my machine shop, we've had parts come in from taiwan, I pack them neatly into made in usa boxes and quickly get rid of the boxes with Taiwanese on them
@@mrfourtysevenman I know it might not be your call but you shouldn't do that. Taiwan is not as bad as China true but labeling things that are not made in America as made in America is fraud.
on just bought another heritage,,,makes 3 now,,,,i have a bunch of ruger single actions, but for the money the heritage cant be beat,,,,i still wish they made the 32 i have a birds head 32 that is my carry pistol at times,,,,,,so that says a lot for my belief in heritage firearms,,,,
Picking one up tomorrow It's the 6 inch 22 lr 129$ Done a lot of research before Buying and as of now I like what I hear about this gun FYI only put 22 lr in this gun it says it on there website not on the gun it self