El Mariachi
Member
With all due respect, Craig, if a 54 year old guy like me with bad eyes and almost zero shooting experience can hit golf balls at 50 feet, I think that just might qualify for at least being semi-accurate.....
With all due respect, this is quite typical of the accuracy reports you hear of Heritage Rough Riders. At least Gunblast did some real accuracy testing with a .32H&R version, which I recall did no better than 3". While a good Single Six will easily halve that, or better....can hit golf balls at 50 feet...
I get the feeling your one of the people who call glass reinforced polymers "tupperware".It's pot metal. You can try and pretty it up as much as you want, it's pot metal.
I guess it is just personally preference, but I don't see why they would want to use a more expensive material for a firearm that's shooting relatively low pressure cartridge. Especially since the firearm isn't meant to be a heirloom weapon, its a cheap plinker.Even the steel framed guns use the cheapest grade of steel alloy you will find anywhere in firearms' manufacture, 12L14.
Seems to work well enough for plinking off hand shooting, which is what I gather alot of us HRR owners do with them. I personally haven't come across many stories of the ejector rod head breaking, I wonder how hard you have to slam it or abuse it to get that to happen.The barrels are "microthreaded", which means they are ribbed, press-fit into the frame and held in place with adhesive. The ejector button is plastic and prone to breakage.
I personally find punching paper boring and to be honest I doubt I'll ever do a "real" accuracy test with a HRR. In regards to practical accuracy I have zero complaints. Of course the finish is sprayed on, its cheaper, fairly durable, and one of the few options available for Zamak (oops, I mean pot metal...). Now, this is the first I've heard about the cocobolo grips being imitation. I'm not an exotic woods specialist by any means, could you explain just what the indicators are that the wood used by Heritage isn't cocobolo?You will almost never see a real accuracy test and if you do, it is typically abysmal. The finishes are sprayed on. The "cocobolo" grips are imitation.
Sounds like that guy had the poor luck to get a bad casting or a lot of metal with impurities. It sucks, but as with any firearm, sometimes you get a defective gun. My Zamak guns (yeah, plural) have held up just fine for me, and I'm rather sure I've put more then a few hundred rounds through them all.You should find the post on TFL where a guy's brand new Cimarron Plinker, which is almost entirely comprised of pot metal, showed SERIOUS signs of peening and erosion after just a few hundred rounds.
I've thought about doing the same thing but just can't bring myself to. Hate to waste the money and hate to spend the time to shoot 10,000rds through it. I could get hit by a truck tomorrow and lose both my thumbs. Don't want my last single action shooting to be with a Rough Rider.I've been tempted to buy a Rough Rider just to see how "bad" they really are.
There you go again, I don't know where you get the idea that I just fell off the turnip truck.If you do not understand the usefulness or advantages of pot metal just say so.
Yes but it typically helps to bench test any gun to find the most accurate load. Unless you're just making noise at the range.A cheap,22lr Single Action revolver is a horrible choice for a target gun.