I've had a Henry Big Boy Steel rifle chambered in .41 Magnum for a few years that I just managed to take out to the range for the first time today.
Beautiful lever-action rifle, great wood furniture, terrific shooter, accurate and surprisingly low recoil (even if I was only shooting cowboy loads). And I was the only person on the rifle range today! As Hickok45 likes to say, "Life is good".
Here are a couple of Australians shooting a Henry chambered in .45 Long Colt. Love the way you folks talk down there! Good shots, incidentally.
And let's not forget: safety first.
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I have a Big Boy carbine in .44 mag with octagonal barrel.
I like the brass receiver and the .44 mag is a nice, crisp round from it.
I also have a .357 mag Winchester 94ae. I really like that one. Almost no recoil and it just sounds great and is darn accurate out to at least 100 yards.
I had to sell my 45lc Uberti lightning when I was broke. I don't miss that at all. It only shot Hornady ammo, it would only fire about 50% or fewer of anything else, even Remington green box. It fed fine, it just dented the primers. Annoyed the crap out of me.
I'm planning on getting a Rossi Circuit Judge in .45 Colt to match my Ruger New Model Blackhawk.
I love rifle/pistol combos and I have one for almost every rifle or pistol.
When I was making GS-13 money I wanted to buy the Big Horn Armory .500 S&W lever action but they didn't finalize it until I couldn't afford it at $3,500. Oh well. I did get an H&R Handi-Rifle to match my .500, but it's not the same thing.
My Marlin in 30-30 has three times the recoil of my AR-10's. That's a lot of kick for a pretty wimpy round. I did put a scope on it though so now I try to shoot it once a month or so. My new toys are a chronograph and a super accurate scale. Slowing down my 308 from 3150fps to 2950fps really tightened my groups up. Always good to have a new project.
V: I've still got my Colt Lightning replica. I'd love to find a Remington 14 or 141 in a caliber that's still available (my gun store had one in .30 Rem, but that round is extremely hard to find and it's expensive even if you can find it; I think it went out of regular production decades ago).
ck: I've got a Marlin 336 in 30-30, and you're right: that thing does kick a bit.
Oooo! A chronograph would be cool.
Buffalo Arms has .30 remington, but it's $44 for 20.
I see stuff like that on Armslist every now and then, but I'm trying to fill holes in my collection first.
I have a Henry in .357, a very nice rifle!
When I read posts & comments here, everyone is talking with an Australian accent in my mind.
Weird huh?
Chuck looks like he's eyeing a couple of Antifa commies.
Haw! "Get off my lawn", old west style!
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