Henry "U.S. Survival Rifle"

I know it’s just a .22 but what you have to understand is I’m sort of a big deal. Where I come from they consider me elite. I won’t bore you with the details but with my special Armchair Elitist statue (oops…cats out of the bag) I am charged with the disturbing orders to kill any and all jugs, paper, bottles, tin cans, and balloons. It gets daunting at times, but you deal…you deal man…you just……deal….

 

Throw a sturdy plastic box or two of cci 's in your "butt pack", How many magazines on the rifle? Folks get by with single shots..
Wave attacks of the killer squirrel hordes?

 

well it was getting tiring to keep emptying the two 8 rd mags. then having to stop and reload them. So I bought 6 more mags and duck taped them butt to butt to make it easier to switch mags after emptying them while playing. so technicly 8 mags, but really 5 mags.

 

Some years back they made a pistol from the action ,didn't they call it a LINDA or something like that !!
Or it may just the the gray hair has taken all my memory away !!

 

I had a suppressed one converted to fire automatic from an open bolt many years ago when you could still build such things and get them into the registry. I wouldn't fit inside its stock anymore though.

 

Ok, it seems that a lot of people's experience was better than mine and I noticed that my local shop has a few on the shelf. M6s are just too hard to find and the only Savage Model 24C I have seen in years was bought out from under me.

I would like to see some accuracy tests of the latest Henry Survival Rifles. Can anyone give me a hand?

 

Thanks Broker !!!

 

Our "member's only' range locally is similar - a bunch of prissy range nazis who don't really want any new members in their "Good Ol' Boy's Club". They just doubled the membership costs, and getting them to answer an E-mail takes the patience of Job......

The free "Public Range" can be okay - it's actually very close to me. BUT.... gotta get their at the crack o' dawn and get you business done before Homie and his posse arrive to 'bust some caps' with their High-Points and Glock 'Fotays'......

One of my shooting buddies has the earlier (pre-Henry) AR7 and Explorer guns, and they seem fairly reliable IF you use plated high velocity ammo - CCI Minimags are good.

 

I've had a Henry for about 4 years and this thread reminded me that it is there. It lives in a drawer in the motorhome.

Digging it out today for some play time...it's a fun little plinker.

I also got a Rossi a few months back that is very similar to a Marlin Papoose...has a .22 barrel and a .410 but is single shot.

 

It is on the lower left.

 

The "Linda" was an entirely different gun, 9mm caliber if I recall.

 

Thanks for that Brokor. That did help. I looked on YouTube and found a couple others with lesser results. I think this can mostly be attributed to people not proficient with peep sights.

I see that a lot. Having shot with both extensively, I prefer peep sights. Most .mil types feel that way. My father, for example, prefers u-notch type sights. It's what he's familiar with. To retrain after a lifetime with them is tough for him. I think that may be the case with the AR7.

Judging from that video, it does appear be accurate enough for it's intended role.

 

I hated peep sights at first - I still qualified well in the military though.
Then I began collecting guns, and the target rifles mostly had peep sights - once I learned to really use them, I now much prefer them! A good peep sight is as accurate as a scope out to 50 yards and far less prone to breakage - an important consideration when TSHTF!