30-30 all the way out to 300 yards.Īs for the rifle itself, I said I had already gotten to love the Henrys above the other new lever guns, and this one didn’t disappoint. With new Spitzeresque rounds like the Hornady LEVEREvolution and some glass, or great eyes, a good shooter could push the old. At 100 yards I’ve got 1,103 fps of energy, 778 fps at 200 yards, and I’m not pushing the maximum load at all. Cheap and easy to reload, my hand-loads push a 150 grain round nosed bullet at 2,150fps out of a 20″ barrel. 45-70 in popularity, and these days it’s even better. It was good enough back then, quickly replacing the venerable. 30 caliber (.308) round loaded with 30 grains of smokeless powder.
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If that seems like a while ago, it was a full 25 years AFTER Benjamin Tyler Henry had patented his lever action rile. After all, it was invented in by Winchester in 1895. The only thing that could possibly hold a candle to it is the. That cartridge has probably taken more deer than any other cartridge in America. 30-30 right now, so I didn’t miss the opportunity to put some rounds through his.Ī little history lesson on the. But, oddly enough, I don’t have a Henry in. 30-30s, I told him I could write it without firing it, as I had hundreds of rounds through them already. So when RF asked me if I wanted to review on one of his Henry. I keep both of their skulls together now, staining one dark and bleaching one white. With that much horn on the wall and that much meat in the freezer, my confidence in the. I had quite a bit of butchering work to do before Christmas lunch that day! I walked over to inspect it, and to my surprise, there was another 8-point on the ground, my bullet having taken him through the spine while he was laying down. On the way up to him, I could hear some rustling in some Agarita bushes a good 50 yards away. He dropped 10 yards from where he was hit. I waited around to get another shot at her, but when she never showed up again, I finally shot him instead. I was laying down, sighted in on a fat doe when one of those 8-pointers harassed her into leaving. 30-30 was cemented one Christmas morning, probably some 20 years ago or more, when I got lucky and took two 8-point bucks with one shot. When it came down to the prettiest of any of the modern lever guns, and the easiest to shoot, the Henrys won the day every time.
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45-70, and then a series of Henry rifles in different calibers. Long before my first AR, or even my first bolt gun, I’d killed dozens of deer and hundreds of pigs with lever guns. 30-30, and it was the only center fire rifle I would own for more than 20 years.Īfter I got out of the Army, my first rifle purchase was, oddly enough, another lever gun in .357 Magnum to go along with my Ruger Blackhawk in the same caliber. Pretty soon that gun was the old Winchester 94 in. I lived way, way out in the country as a child, our driveway was measured in miles, and before I was out of elementary school I was walking around the woods hunting with my own gun and my own dog.
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