While window shopping today I saw a case full of Heritage Arms SA .22s in LR and magnum. They were blue, had various barrel lengths, and some had a birds head grip. They wanted $175 for them. Anyone familar with the average price and quality of one of these ? I haven't heard much about them.
Heritage Arms SA ?
- Thread starter cjw
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They're mediocre quality, but they do work.
Odd thing is, they have a manually activated safety! It works like a manually operated hammer block - in other words, safety on and hammer down, you have to do a two-step to fire: cock it, and flick the safety off. Once the safety is off, there's no additional automatic trigger-connected safety so ya better not drop the dang thing.
In theory, you could carry it "cocked and locked"
. I sure wouldn't. It'd be better to leave the safety off and treat it as a five-shot, lowering the hammer on an empty cylinder just like an 1873 Colt.
Other than that plus being a bit ugly, the rep is that they'll shoot OK. But if you can afford one, get a Ruger Single Six convertable (even if used) and don't look back
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Odd thing is, they have a manually activated safety! It works like a manually operated hammer block - in other words, safety on and hammer down, you have to do a two-step to fire: cock it, and flick the safety off. Once the safety is off, there's no additional automatic trigger-connected safety so ya better not drop the dang thing.
In theory, you could carry it "cocked and locked"
. I sure wouldn't. It'd be better to leave the safety off and treat it as a five-shot, lowering the hammer on an empty cylinder just like an 1873 Colt.Other than that plus being a bit ugly, the rep is that they'll shoot OK. But if you can afford one, get a Ruger Single Six convertable (even if used) and don't look back
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