Henry Rifles

[Rulz]

So I have went crazy with my gun buying lately....most notably Henry Repeating Arms.

I have bought the Evil Roy .22, the Survival Rifle, and a Railroad tribute edition .22. The Evil Roy is a shooter for me, and for a little carbine it's accurate for sure. The Survival rifle is just fun. It's actually pretty accurate within 50 yards. Have to keep the barrel tightened though as it likes to loosen with repeated shots. The railroad edition won't be fired, I bought it because my dad worked on the railroad for 46 years. Retired in 2000. Just thought it was a neat gun and pretty much represented him well, he has always loved .22 guns.

I really like this company. Very helpful folks, easy to get on the phone. I had an issue with the ER and they paid shipping. The front sight was a little bent and I had a couple of hangups on some hollow point ammo. No questions, no silliness, they just sent a label, fixed it, then sent it right back.

 

[The Duke]

How much would a decent quality (and working) Civil War-era Henry rifle set you back in $$$?

 

[Mario_C]

Henry rifles?

What, did you recently watch Silverado? Ha

...nice rifle!

 

[BigBobBarker]

I bought a 17hmr Henry for my dad around 4 years ago. Octagonal barrel. We use it to shoot prairie dogs. It is very accurate, but only likes hornady ammo. The others, especially Winchester, get hung up in the tube. We thought it was a problem with our tube at first and they sent us a new tube immediately. also the black spray paint receiver "blue" hasn't been very durable. Most of it is gone off of the underside of the receiver. Of course it gets propped up on fence posts and barb wire fences as rests routinely. But compared to other guns used like this by us, it has certainly worn more. We like the gun, but didn't anticipate a lever action being picky on ammo. It can be a pain when availability of ammo is low.

 

[Rulz]

BBB, they would probably check it out for you for free if you called them up and told them about the ammo issue. They usually eat anything, I'm not sore on the .17s, but the .22s will take on just about any ammo. Mine was hanging up on hollow point Winchester, but it was just occasional. But I didn't need that from a new gun.

They do some cost cutting on the smaller calibers on some things but that keeps the prices down. People think Henry's are expensive, but when you compare them to some of the other manufacturers they are reasonable in the smaller calibers. Also, and I'm not for sure on this, I think they have switched to some better materials on the newer guns. For instance, they did use plastic sights on some of the earlier guns and they now have went to all metal. All my guns aside from the survival rifle have all metal sights.

I just had my local gun shop find me the Original Henry Rifle Deluxe Engraved Edition. They are 1 of a 1000 made. So now I have truly went off the deep end lol. I got a good price on it so I'm happy. Can't wait to get it in, and if I can ever find the super duper double secret formula for posting pics here, I will share some images. Who do you have to go down on to figure that out anyway lol...seems like only a select few have this special wizardry...