Marlin 1894S

[Varminterror]

The 1:16" for the Henry rifle is ridiculous. It was used in deference to CAS/SASS shooters who might run 400-600fps loads for reduced recoil and faster splits, and even at these paltry velocities, 1:38" has always been fast enough. For a factory 250grn load at 1100fps out of the rifle length tube, a 16" twist gives a Berger stability factor of 10.9 - reminding here, anything over 1 is stable and anything over 1.5 is ideally stabilized on Berger's scale. So a 10.9 is grossly over spun.

There is a reason Henry chose a "Gamer friendly twist," and it had nothing to do with ballistics.

Too many Marlins have been shooting too well for too many of us for too many generations for folks to be this ignorant. It's really obtuse to claim a twist rate applicable for a small bore spire point rifle bullet has any bearing for a revolver cartridge rifle with stubby little fat bullets.

It's a diameter issue or a build issue, it's NOT a twist issue. Ballistic science AND shooter experience has proven so for many, many years.

 

[Cannibul]

You know the Henry .44 mag has a 1:38 twist don't ya? Not sure what you're ranting about but the twist rates in the other Henry rifles are pretty common.

 

[Cannibul]

I tend to overlook rifles that are 2lbs heavier than they need to be.

May that as it be it doesn't mean they don't exist.

 

[CraigC]

I'm sure Henry chose the 1-16" twist because that's the most common for the cartridge. They're buying blanks, not making them.

The 1-38" twist works fine for full pressure loads and bullets up to 300gr. I'd like to see them change to the industry standard 1-20", like Marlin has finally done with their .444's, to stabilize the heavyweight cast bullets up to 355gr. I'm talking about Marlin 1894's and the various 1892's. What Henry does with their overweight pig is irrelevant.