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oneshot86

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#1
i know we have a section for 22s, but let me ask you this here.
do any of you have one, what do you think?
i have marlin 39a's, which are awesome but this golden boy at dicks is killing me, i cant go into the fucken store without it
calling me over to the gun counter.
i think its beautiful, but i dont buy junk
 
#6
Smooth as silk, look awesome, and shoot. I don't own one but two friends about a year ago bought 22 mags. They're a blast. Did I mention they look awesome? Buy it Brother. You won't be disappointed.
 
#8
sirhrmechanic said:
I have a .45 LC rifle. It's a beautiful gun. Well made. Smooth. Dead nuts accurate. If I didn't have way more .22's than I need (and a .45) I'd own a .22.

Beautiful little guns. Buy one. Don't look back!

Cheers,

Sirhr
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My Big Boy in 45 colt is my favorite rifle... Absolute hog-slayer.

What kinda loads you running? I really like 22gr of IMR 4227 under a 255 SWC.
 
#10
sirhrmechanic said:
I'd have to look it up. I have the same .45 LC load for several single action's, my gatling and for the Golden Boy. It's pretty light. But such a nice plinking load! Last time I sat down and loaded them... I did 2,000! The load is on a card in the ammo cans.

Cheers,

Sirhr
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That load will probably grenade anything old. It runs great in the Henry (and also the 460V), pushing that bullet ~1400FPS out of the beautiful octagonal barrel.

Great for plinking beer cans at 100 yards, and for shooting hogs in the head as they meander through the brush. 22gr of 4227 is really close to compressed with the 255gr Keith SWC sold by Missouri Bullet Company when you seat it to the crimp groove. I love those bullets because they're fairly inexpensive and don't lead the barrel when pushed pretty fast.
 
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I will caution you that the golden boy I have doesn't like ANYTHING high velocity. Feed it something in the 1080fps/40gr. bullet range and you'll be sniping shotshell hulls off the 50 and 100yd targets backers like a pro in no time
 
#19
oneshot86 said:
i know we have a section for 22s, but let me ask you this here.
do any of you have one, what do you think?
i have marlin 39a's, which are awesome but this golden boy at dicks is killing me, i cant go into the fucken store without it
calling me over to the gun counter.
i think its beautiful, but i dont buy junk
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My Bud has a 44 spl and it's a very nice rifle.
He won it at a DU banquet, been over the mantle so can't say how it shoots.

R
 
#20
Love my Henry’s and have a 44 mag, a youth .22lr, and a couple standard 22s. They are beautiful and well made. I hunt with my Marlin 45/70 lever, and not with my Henry’s because they are to beautiful to scratch. Selling some of my guns but not any of the Henry’s.
 
#22
I love my Henry GB. The octagon bbl is heavy and gives it a nice hefty balance. My eyes are so bad with/without glasses that I was forced to put a scope on it although I hated to mess up the old west look. With CCI subsonic HP's and the subsonic segmented HPs it will group about 1/2" to 3/4" @ 50 yds which is really good for me. Those segmented HPs are really deadly on squirrels, coons and crows. I wish I could easily adapt the bbl to use a suppressor but it seems to be too big a PITA.
 
#23
Two years ago I gave the eldest grand daughter a basic blued Henry lever .22. At the first range outing she was busting beer cans at 25 yds with only basic instruction. 30 minutes later cans at 50 were rarely missed, same with clay birds, with the iron sights. The wood is very nice and it shot several brands of ammo with nary a single bobble.

I have more accurate rimfires, but nothing is more fun to shoot than that little Henry.
 
#24
ok, so i found where i will by my golden boy...
but let me ask this also, what would you store the rifle in to send the cdi factor to the moon...
i was thinking leather sheath, whats some cool ideas?
 
#34
I'd like to have one in a pistol cal or big bore. I have no need for one, but never let that stop me before. I'm also a fan of the 29A golden Mountie.
 
#37
My Brother Bob did the G&A reviews for (one..., several?) of the Henry .22's when they were first released.

He liked them well enough to buy them when he was finished testing them for the article(s?). He still owns them and they will go to his Sons when he's finally done with them.

He told me I was gonna have to buy my own... Not yet, but it's on the list.

Greg
 
#38
I have a Henry in .22 Mag with the octagon barrel and absolutely love the thing, as does everyone else who's shot it. Much more accurate with the buckhorn sight than I expected, about 3/4" groups at 50yds, it's a definite "critter-getter" for anything inside 100yds that I can lay a bead on. Only downside is it's hefty and long with that barrel for carrying in the bush, but it's a nice heft for positional shooting so that offsets. Smooth action and reliable as hell, I plan on getting at least another in .22 LR.
 
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