Taurus® Acquires Heritage Manufacturing

According to whats available Heritage is still going to be an independent company, and operate as it always has. However it should mean it will acquire technology from taurus.

much like when taurus and smith and wesson were subsidiaries of the same parent company.


what it most likely means, dont expect the heritage saa 45 colt /.410 revolver any time soon.
 
I have a theory. This is really about the Heritage contract and relationship with Pietta.

Heritage is the only source of a Pietta centerfire SAA-ish gun with a transfer bar safety. The "Heritage Big Bore" is a Pietta made in Italy that is finished stateside. It is therefore functionally the same gun as the Gaucho except without the Gaucho's horrific QC issues that doomed it.

Taurus can take over the contract, bring Pietta parts stateside to either the Taurus plant in Miami or the existing Heritage plant and sell it as the "Gaucho II" or if they're smart, pick a new name entirely. The gun would have nothing to do with Brazil...and might even give the Ruger NewVaq a run for the money in terms of price/performance/looks.

Taurus could do this while leaving the Heritage small-bore gun line alone...or put another way, leave Heritage to deal with what they do best.

Pietta should be all over this because they'll get access to the Taurus marketing team. Pietta's QC is actually a bit better than most Ubertis by all accounts, but they don't have much of a marketing team and zero stateside presence. Despite that they're now selling some models through Cimarron on top of the existing contract with import house EMF. But neither of those cover transfer-bar based guns.

I'm assuming that Heritage had some sort of exclusive deal that Taurus has now bought rights to...good bet, as otherwise EMF (Pietta's biggest US importer) would have long since had transfer-bar variants from Pietta.

With luck we'll see more variants of the Pietta transfer-bar guns, such as Thunderer-grip models and Pietta's answer to the Ruger SBH/Bisley grip frames known as the "Alchemista" (after Pietta CEO's European SASS handle - the guy has big hands).
 
Taurus does indeed have QC issues but they're linked to the Brazil plants.

A Pietta-Taurus with no Brazilian involvement might not suck at all.
 
Looks like Taurus purchased Heritage,,,

Click here please,,,

I loved reading the "puff text",,,
It was truly awe-inspiring.

But seriously,,,
Heritage must be selling quite a few guns,,,
To make Taurus want to buy the entire company.

I've fired and handled Heritage .22 revolvers,,,
They really aren't that bad a handgun,,,
The safety seems kind of silly.

Just a week or so ago,,
One of the female servers at my watering hole,,,
Received a Heritage revolver as a graduation present from her dad.

It's certainly cute enough,,,
4.75" barrel with pink laminate grips,,,
I'm going to make her a "Dale Evans" gunbelt for it.

We are supposed to go out shooting real soon,,,
If it's a turkey I can get both my Taurus and Heritage bashing in on one post. :D

But I'll bet the little gun does just fine.

Aarond

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Not with Taurus's reputation for poor quality.

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I'm sure you'll never read this, but, can you back up your simple stated word's?

It's just to easy just to say something and so arrogantly carry on with your life.

"I said it with the rest of the sheep, there for it's true."

I think next time you make such a huge statement against a company that is way more successful than you are, or ever well be.

BACK UP YOUR WORD's.

FYI, I don't like either companies, but I don't bash them on the Internet for sake of sounding smart.

There's old wisdom behind that, but that's for you, and others to figure it out.
 
Thanks for the heads up. I was thinking about getting one for my kid to shoot. That will not happen now. My experience with Taurus was frustrating and still fresh in my mind.
 
their is NOTHING wrong with heritage. they are a good gun.

all i can say is if you want to teach someone to shoot, get a heritage with the longest barrel possible.

the only two issues youll have are this,

1. making sure you dont shoot it to fast. for some reason they are MADE for speed shooting.

2. good targets, a good supply of them.
 
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