Picked up another on on the want list

[Guest boatme99]

Well, try as I might, I just can't stop. At breakfast this morning, a friend came to my table and said he had a gun for sale. It was a Heritage Rough Rider .22 mag. A "shopkeepers" gun 3" barrel, wood birdhead grips.

I know they come with both cylinders, but the guy only had the mag. cyl. No box or papers, but it cleaned up very nicely and shoots well. And I got a heck of a deal.

This is one of those inexpensive guns I've always toyed with buying, but just never seemed ready to part with the cash for. If you wait for it, it will come, I guess.

[gregintenn]

Hey, I bought a 22 lr cylinder from the Heritage Arms website at a very reasonable price a few months ago. It was supposed to be blemished, but looked and functioned like new when I got it.

[Guest boatme99]

Thanks Greg. I checked, a new one is $30., I'll call this week and check into blemished units.

[MphsTiger1981]

This thread is useless without pics!

[JAB]

Congratulations. Should be a fun little shooter.

When I bought my 6.5 inch barreled/plow-handle gripped Rough Rider I looked at the short barreled/birds head models, too. I liked the way they looked but with the size of my hands, I think the grips would take some getting used to. Still, there is a good chance I would have gone that route except that I wanted to use it for a 'bum around the yard' gun with the .22WMR so I wanted to be able to squeeze a little more 'oomph' out of it. Supposedly, a WMR from a handgun with a barrel of 6 inches or longer is 'comparable' to a .22LR out of a rifle so I went that route. I have thought several times that a short barreled/birds head model would be just plain fun but haven't bought one, yet. In fact, I haven't seen anything but the plow handle models in stores for the past couple of years.