Henry Big Boy Carbine

[ifit]

Thanks, that's what I'm considering...but $110 we'll see

 

[jim in Anchorage]

I was just in a shop and handled a big boy steel in .357. I think I'm sold. Like many others, I don't care for the way the Henry's load, but the cold hard truth is you can't have everything and overall it's a solid, slick, well built, rifle.

If it had a loading gate it wouldn't be a Henry pattern rifle[yes pattern the current Henry has no connection whatsoever to the original.]
Want a brass frame lever with a loading gate? Buy a Winchester 1866.
You can have everything.

 

[Jason_W]

If it had a loading gate it wouldn't be a Henry pattern rifle[yes pattern the current Henry has no connection whatsoever to the original.]
Want a brass frame lever with a loading gate? Buy a Winchester 1866.
You can have everything.

This was the Big Boy Steel, not the kind with all the shiny brass everywhere.

https://www.henryrifles.com/rifles/henry-big-boy-steel/

It's a little more my style.

 

[jim in Anchorage]

This was the Big Boy Steel, not the kind with all the shiny brass everywhere.

https://www.henryrifles.com/rifles/henry-big-boy-steel/

It's a little more my style.

Yeah I like that one a lot. Did the one you looked at have such nice wood?
Two minor negitives-
Who ever laid out that checkring pattern should be banned from anything requiring a artistic eye.
A ventilated recoil pad on a lever gun?

 

[Jason_W]

Yeah I like that one a lot. Did the one you looked at have such nice wood?
Two minor negitives-
Who ever laid out that checkring pattern should be banned from anything requiring a artistic eye.
A ventilated recoil pad on a lever gun?

The wood definitely looks nicer in the photos, but not bad overall. Wood/metal fit was great.

I think the above type of lever action isn't so much meant to keep with tradition as it is meant to combine the benefits of the lever action platform (a light, sleek, quick handling, relatively quick firing rifle) with a few modern advancements (options for receiver sights/optics, recoil pads to take some of the bite out of heavier rounds). Not that recoil reduction is needed in a .357, but it would be appreciated in a .44 mag.

 

[MechAg94]

If it had a loading gate it wouldn't be a Henry pattern rifle[yes pattern the current Henry has no connection whatsoever to the original.]
Want a brass frame lever with a loading gate? Buy a Winchester 1866.
You can have everything.

Which is why a Henry isn't on my list of guns I want. They look great, but the tube loading just turns me off.

Now if they figured out how to do buttstock loading with say 44 Mag, that would be cool. Even better if you could do buttstock loading on the fly.

 

[Tommygunn]

Which is why a Henry isn't on my list of guns I want. They look great, but the tube loading just turns me off.

Now if they figured out how to do buttstock loading with say 44 Mag, that would be cool. Even better if you could do buttstock loading on the fly.

What is wrong with the 1892 design with the Nelson King side loading port?
A butt loader would be a repro of the old Spencer repeater. They do make those but I don't believe I've seen one in .44 magnum .... nor do I know if the receiver would hold up to a magnum load.
IMO loading a '92 could easily be done "on the fly."

 

[MechAg94]

Nothing wrong with it at all. I just already own side loading leverguns (Marlin and Rossi). Always looking for something new and unique.

 

[jim in Anchorage]

What is wrong with the 1892 design with the Nelson King side loading port?
A butt loader would be a repro of the old Spencer repeater. They do make those but I don't believe I've seen one in .44 magnum .... nor do I know if the receiver would hold up to a magnum load.
IMO loading a '92 could easily be done "on the fly."

Or a Evans.

 

[Tommygunn]

Or a Evans.

... I dun forgot that one ....

 

[jim in Anchorage]

Well we can let you slide on that. The Evans [new or old model] is not exactly a house hold name