Has anyone used these guns?

[magnifier661]

http://www.henryrepeating.com

They look great and all are hand crafted. I was thinking of picking one up.

 

[Natebishop3]

I don't have a Henry, but I have a lever action Marlin 30/30. They're great guns. Super fun to use. Accurate.

I can't speak to the Henry, but I like the style.

 

[DaLincolnJones]

yeah thirty years ago before they were collectors items. Great rifles, never jam, throw them in a mud puddle and they still fire.

 

[magnifier661]

Cool thanks for the info guys! It's been my dream to own a lever action. Too many cowboy and Indian games when I was a kid

 

[Mamba]

Never used a Henry before, but I too have a Marlin 30/30 and love it. So fun to shoot.

 

[Natebishop3]

Cool thanks for the info guys! It's been my dream to own a lever action. Too many cowboy and Indian games when I was a kid

Look at the Marlin too. Maybe see if you can test fire one. Winchester went out of business, if I remember correctly, but you can probably still buy a Winchester 30/30. Those are the three names.

 

[magnifier661]

Yeah I'll look into the marlin too

 

[Natebishop3]

I think this is basically what I have.

The Henry is a little more old fashioned in terms of design, which has its own flow.

 

[MARIS61]

My first rifle was a pre-64 Winchester lever action 30-30. Got my first deer with it, 150 yards and running. Replaced it with a brand new one 2 years later after our house burned down. Got 5 more deer with it before I passed it on to my son.

A friend had the Marlin. Main dif is the Marlin has side eject so you can mount a scope on top. The Winchester has top eject so a scope must be offset. Neither gun is accurate enough at over 150 yards so most people go with open sights. Great guns for hunting in the woods. The Winchester is known as the most successful deer rifle in America.

 

[Nikolokolus]

I loved my .30-30 Remington as a kid; great firearm. Makes me wish I'd held on to it sometimes, but I sold it when I got a .30-06 Savage 110 in high school.

Never really got into the lever action rifles.

 

[BigGameDamian]

http://www.henryrepeating.com

They look great and all are hand crafted. I was thinking of picking one up.

What for?

 

[MARIS61]

I now use a bolt action Remington model 721 .30-06 that my dad bought for his dad when he was 18. Open sight and it came to me so dialed in that there's no room for improvement.

Funny that the King of lever action rifles was a basketball player. I loved this show as a kid.

[video=youtube;nrOPVo5GFY4]

 

[Jayps15]

I have a Winchester 94 .32 Special my dad gave me, and his father gave him. Haven't taken it out in a while, but it's always been a really solid piece.

 

[MarAzul]

http://www.henryrepeating.com

They look great and all are hand crafted. I was thinking of picking one up.

I have not seen a new Henry Rifle. I had a 44-40 that burned up in a fire years ago, along with a 1886 Winchester 45-70 and a model 94 32 special.

It depends on what you want the rifle to do. Deer or Elk I used my lever action Savage model 99 .308 with a 3x9 scope. Then perhaps you have a need for serious long distance capable on high value targets. My 1958 model 70 270 Winchester loaded hot with 130 gr boat tails works real well.
The .338 in the same model will reach even farther but damn, it do bark!

My favorite little lever action rifle is a Browning B92 in the .357 mag caliber. This gun is a take off of the Winchester model 1892 which was made to chamber the 25-20, 32-20, and 44-40 rounds. The .357 loaded with slow burning powder like Win296 will get this little gun shooting with the much larger 30-30. The tube magazine hold 11 rounds and the with a 18' in barrel you can use it deer hunting and serious self defense. The lever action is really fool proof and fast. You can with the open buckhorn sights it comes with, hit what you want out to about 125 yards and expect it to stop shortly there after.

Then of course the defensive weapon for many close targets, a Mini14 in the .223 caliber, works nicely. I used it occasional on chicken thief Coyotes over on my ranch, sort of just gun um down with the 30 round clip. But that isn't it's main purpose.

 

[MARIS61]

... Winchester went out of business, if I remember correctly, but you can probably still buy a Winchester 30/30.

Still going strong.

http://www.winchesterguns.com/

 

[BlazerWookee]

Winchester 1892 with a setscrew in the trigger guard FTW.

 

[Natebishop3]

Still going strong.

http://www.winchesterguns.com/

No, it's not the same company.

From 1981 until 2006, Winchester guns were made by the USRAC. When USRAC went bankrupt in 1989 it was acquired by a French holding company, then sold to an arms making cartel sponsored by the Belgian Herstal Group, which also owns gun makers Fabrique National (FN) and Browning.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_owns_the_Winchester_firearms_trade_name_Olin_or_FN

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/10913125/...nchester-rifles-be-discontinued/#.UlWRCFB4yVo

And then there's this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Repeating_Arms_Company

On August 15, 2006, Olin Corporation, owner of the Winchester trademarks, announced that it had entered into a new license agreement with Browning[6] to make Winchester brand rifles and shotguns, though not at the closed Winchester plant in New Haven. The production of Model 1885 falling block action, Model 1892 and Model 1886 lever action rifles are produced under licensed agreement by Miroku Corp. of Japan and imported back to United States by Browning.[7]
In 2008 Fabrique Nationale announced that it would produce Model 70 rifles at its plant in Columbia, SC. In the summer of 2010 Fabrique Nationale d'Herstal (FN) resumed production of the Winchester model 1894 and the evolution of the Winchester 1300, now called the Winchester SXP.[8][9]

Also, if you see a Winchester knife for sale at Bi-Mart or some such place, the knife is actually made by Gerber and it's one of their lower quality knives that is produced overseas. They bought the naming rights probably around the same time the rifle company was sold.