If1HitU
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Have any of you added this Henry Side Gate Loader to your collection of rifles? If so what opinion do you have you'd like to share about the side gate lorder?
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If future calibers are based off the sales of their 3 current caliber offerings - they might as well cancel them now.
buy all you want, I will not stand in your way. none for me. I have a marlin cowboy in .32 H&R magnum with tube load and find it a PITA to load-reload(top off tube) and unload.
Since this rifle has a loading gate, what is your objection?
I'm thinking he doesn't like tube magazines on lever guns in general
Nice gun, but that's from a guy who has a major love for the lever rifles. Yeah, I watched 50's and 60's cowboy movies and TV Shows (Wire Paladin, San Francisco). I'm old.
That said, everyone has their likes and dislikes and reasons for each. Different guns and calibers are good for different things. Personally, I like wood on a gun. I like a gun that does what I need it to do. I love a gun that does that and looks nice too. Aesthetically, I'm not a big fan of black guns. Functionally, they certainly have their place. As I said, I like wood on a gun, and that's just me. My preference. For looks the Henrys really figured it out to my eye. Handsome rifles and from what I've seen of every Henry I have handled, very well made.
I'm getting old too and I watched all the same old westerns. I'm working my way through the Gunsmoke radio shows on You-Tube right now.
I'm slowing down and shooting endless amounts of ammo from autoloaders is no longer appealing.
What appeals to me now is blued steel, brass, and walnut.
Cap & ball revolvers, SAA replicas, muzzleloaders, and the like.
Guns with an Old west flair that I can take out and shoot at my own pace, and hang on the wall and admire the rest of the time.
This Henry in .38-55 fits in to this category.
Traditional Marlin lever actions, Ruger single action revolvers, and a couple of .22 rifles make up my other guns.
"My main skills are talking and cooking biscuits, and getting drunk on the porch."
- Augustus McCrae
My Marlin 1894 is a .44 and my Rossi lever rifle is a .357.
Will Henry do it on their .22? I'm all over that!
I just bought a Marlin Cowboy in .45 Colt and an 1894 in .44 Magnum. Remington has indeed gotten better.
The .44 magnum is made with a .4315 bore, which is not uncommon for Marlins. (I slugged it.)
But JSP and JHP bullets are .430" which does not help accuracy.
I fired it a few days ago with 240 grain Hornaday JHP bullets and 18.5 grains of 2400. Surprisingly stout recoil !
Accuracy will need .433 bullets though, so I guess that I will buy a mold from Accurate and hard cast.
Same goes for the Cowboy with a .452" bore. Most off the shelf bullets are .452" hard cast. I need .454".
Are 22 rounds sturdy enough to go through a loading gate?