Opinion on Henry rifles

Ian

Notorious member
#6s and full choke for that country, I've hit the opener a few times with a cast bullet friend in the Yoakum area. Lots of whitewings and collared "eurasions" in the area, good eating. I missed the trip this year due to life happening and with any luck will have a three month-old baby by the south zone weekend next year, so I'm making no plans just yet....

If you make it over this way give me some notice and I'll let you try out my Henry, or at least "'coon finger" it. The way the mail service has been totally failing at everything lately I'm going to wait until after Christmas to send your book back.
 

Tony

Active Member
Is your cast bullet friend Trey? I need to look him up. He's holding some alloy for me.

I may have to schedule a trip to the court house in Kerrville to transfer my interest in the family property there over to my brother.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Yep, that's him, hell of a good guy. If you buy that property you'll practically be neighbors.

Thanks Gman, this is the sixth try for number one. After losing five in three years at 6-8 weeks and endless fool MDs/OBGyns/fertility specialists/tests, tests, and more tests, with no real answers we finally (more or less on our own) determined the problem was with our MTHFR genes. We both have one mutation at A1298C. Her mutation is the biggest issue because it means she can't process folic acid correctly and a woman simply can't grow a baby without enough of it. A little bit of qualified help with methylated folate, specialized B's, CoQ10 and some diet tweaks and BAM normal pregnancy immediately, like so fast it caught us both off-guard this time! The high-dollar MD/naturopath's prenatals were doing nothing but making her sick before and actually exacerbating the problem. Fingers and toes crossed this one makes it full term and is healthy.

Have any of you bought a Henry yet???? We're drifting this thread into the next state already.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Thanks everyone, it's been a lot of tough years and disappointments before this, but it has a strong heartbeat and wifey is sick as a dog this time, and at the right time (good sign that things are going the way they're supposed to). Everybody said this begetting children was supposed to be easy! Well, not so much for some of us.
 

Chris

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Congratulations, Ian. Nothing will change your life for the better than a happy marriage and children.
 
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Congratulations to you and your wife Ian,
I will be praying that all goes well for you and yours. I couldn't be happier for you, but i'm still jealous of that new Henry rifle of yours just the same lol.

Probably be next summer before i can even think of getting one, but i think you guys have "enabled" me quite nicely.
I'm quite sure a few more reports on how it shoots will finish me off.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Tony, it's gritty and kind of long, but not too heavy. I haven't even tried to lube the sear much less polish it. It will probably get touched up after I shoot it enough to get the innards dirty enough to strip down and clean, which is to say it doesn't even cross my mind when shooting from bench or bags. I actually had to go check it just now because even after four or five boxes of shells through it I never noticed what it was like, and I'm an insufferable trigger snob.
 
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9.3X62AL

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Congrats, Ian! Praying here for health & wellness for you and yours.

I found a steel-framed Henry Big Boy 20" in 357 Magnum a couple days back, and after enough fondling and caressing I committed to its purchase. It fits me well when thrown up to the shoulder, and the fit/finish is pretty decent. I REALLY like that the rifle is entirely American-made, and their warrantee and spare parts availability is an added plus. That they are actually MAKING leverguns in 357 Magnum--unlike Marlin for +4 years--is encouraging also.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Thank you, Allen, we really appreciate it.

I think you'll enjoy that rifle a lot. Rumor has it the ROT is one turn in sixteen inches on those, too, so should be good with heavy bullets should you decide to fool with them. I look forward to your range reports when it is released from quarantine.
 

gman

Well-Known Member
I looked at a used Big Boy with steel receiver in 357 today. Very tempted but I didn't pull the trigger. It saw jacket loads as the fouling was evident at the muzzle.
 

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
I looked at a used Big Boy with steel receiver in 357 today. Very tempted but I didn't pull the trigger. It saw jacket loads as the fouling was evident at the muzzle.

And that's a problem....why? I always use jacketed, first, when I purchase a new firearm. Making sure it doesn't have any manufacturing issues, before switching to cast. I'm also of the mind, that the jacketed rounds can't hurt with lapping out any minor tooling marks.

In my early cast revolver days, I usually followed up a shooting session of cast with a cylinder full of jacketed rounds. Hell, it was was even recommended.
 

Rick

Moderator
Staff member
Yeah, that idea of jacketed after cast was no doubt promoted by the same people that said cast would ruin your barrel.