I am not saying it is Ruger, but the dealers around here.
When I ask what the going price is here the markup here is about 10 to 15 percent higher than the Ruger listed price.
I guess it is what anyone believes, if the Henry is more or less rifle than the Ruger built Marlin, and I guess time will tell. As for the customer service, I had dealings with the Henry customer service on one of their products, and I feel their service is second to none. I had a couple of the old Marlins before they became part of Remington, and they were awesome. The truth is Remington just about caused the ones they built to have a really bad reputation.
As far as the loadings go, Garrett and Buffalo Bore list the Henry and Marlin as having the same power levels, and we will have to see which of them is the better gun.
I have read both have been used to take the big five in Africa, and anything on this continent. Truth is I would like to see the Marlins do the same thing with the mag tube Henry has done.
Makes loading and unloading safer. I was happy to see them put the loading gate on.
Even Rossi is doing that with their new 454 Casulls in their model 92s. I think it would make all lever guns safer to do that.
And since that technology is well over 100 years old, there is no patent for anyone to overcome.
But I guess that is just something that is a personal thing, but at Least Henry is now putting that option on their 30-30s, their 360 Buckhammer, 35 Remington, all their pistol caliber guns and of course their 45-70s