Heritage Rough Rider

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Night before last my dog was going nuts. My mother is visiting, and was like "There is something under the table on the porch!" I thought it was a snake. I grabbed the Heritage 6.5" with Super Colibri shells.
I was looking and looking on the ground. Nothing. Then I heard a sound coming from behind the plywood laid up against the house. I looked behind it. It was a 7" rat trapped against the wood and brick.
Took the Heritage and put a Colibri behind its ear from about 8 feet. Plop. Dead rat. Then another started to run from next to the house. I popped him in full sprint on his way to the hedge line at about 12 yards away.

I would say that the Heritage Rough Rider is a great gun. Especially with Super Colibri rounds for pest control around the house. More ump than your averager $100 .22 cal pellet gun. Probably quieter, and very accurate. You can shoot short CBs from them, .22 LR, Super Colibri, Long CBs, and .22 Magnum. All of which are very accurate out of the revolver. The only complaint I have is it is not a 9 or 12 round cylinder, but on that night two was all that I needed.

I likey!

 

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Why I love the Heritage Rough Rider!

I walked out just about dark tonight. Looking at the mouse traps I put out to kill the mice we have been having up on the back porch. Well I was barefooted, and I put my foot right next to a piece of plywood that is leaning up against the house.
As I looked down where the trap should be I see a black head start to raise up. I jump back, and run in the house. I grab the HRR. It is loaded with three Super Colibri, and three CCI rat shot.
As I come back out of the house, and walk down the steps, and look from behind the plywood I see a huge Cotton Mouth with its head in a "S" shape raised about 4 inches from the ground. This time I am on the back side of the snake. If it would have been a king snake I would have let him go. I would have grabbed a garden rake, and helped it on its way, but as it turned out. I had to lay the heat on this sucker.
A couple S. Colibris is all I could get at the angle, but it stopped the snakes movement forward, and then a CCI rat shot from about six feet away, and I have changed my idea about that round. It put the snake down, and I mean it blew that snake a new one. We opened its mouth, and viewed his fangs, and was able to get a good amount of venom out of it. If I hadn't seen him when I did being barefooted. I wouldn't be typing this message right now.

My daughter had just been playing out in the back yard. I am not for killing to kill, but a 5 foot Cotton Mouth at my back door is not a welcome visitor.

All I can say is the Heritage Rough Rider is by far the most utilitarian firearm that I own, and I am absolutely thankful that I made this purchase. It is reliable, ready, and does what is asked of it. Also situations like this is why I like revolvers more than Auto Pistols. The ability to stagger loadings is a very convenient trait of a revolver.

 

[I'm3rd]

"I am not for killing to kill, but a 5 foot Cotton Mouth at my back door is not a welcome visitor."

You did the right thing.J was born and raised in FL snake country, and my grandpa told me that if I saw a rater or cottonmouth and didn't do everything I could do to kill it I would be responsible if that snake later killed someone. I worked outside in rough country for the first few years of my adult life, and have hunted and fished all my life. i have heeded grandpa's warning and have never let a poisionous snake get awwy if there was any possible way to kill it. The closest I ever came to being bitten was by a ground rattler who hung his fangs in my boot heel when I stepped over him. When I saw what had happened I shook him loose and then removed his head with a machete I was carrying. He wouldn't have killed me even if he had gotten his fangs in me instead o my boot because ground rattlers seldom get larger than 2 or sometimes 3 feet and don't pack enough venom to kill a healthy man.

 

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This snake looks long and thin, but that's because he is dead. When he was all "S" up. He was as round as a coke can.
His pupils are blue glazed from being dead, but they are slit like a cats eyes. I am still freaked by the size of this snake.

 

[Zombiphobia]

Only thing I know is their manufacturing plant is in Boca Raton, Florida.. last time I checked. I've had a .22LR/MAG for about 10 years. They're accurate and fun. I've killed a heck of a lot of squirrels with it and fired well over 2k rounds thru it. Only problem I've had is the hammer and hand spring needed replacement(because I was fanning it) and the one the gunsmith put in it was a POS and broke within 2 weeks.

I'd say they're a good deal for the money. Regardless of what it's made of, mine has held up just fine.