Bought a Henry 22 lever gun/ now with target pic

[Dave]

My pawn shop man called me and said he wanted all the guns gone by Jan 1st. Well, I like a motivated seller but when he called off the guns to me none of them made my heart beat faster. Then he said Henry 22. I had seen that gun and it looked new and he made me an offer I couldn't refuse on it.

I want to shoot shorts out of it but I have had Long Rifles get stuck in the chamber of my Marlin 39A if I shoot a lot of shorts out of it and don't clean the chamber before shooting LRs. I clean the Marlin from the back and use a 25 cal brush as a chamber brush to get the crud ring out left by the shorts.

I don't see an easy way to clean the Henry from the back. The manual acts like taking it all the way apart is not an easy task. Anybody taken their Henry 22 all the way apart? If I am going to keep the gun I'm sure it will become necessary at some point.

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Went out this mornig to give the Henry a try. Needed a little down and a little right. Didn't take long. Here is a target offhand at 25 yards with bulk ammo. Not bad at all.

[Steelbanger]

Get yourself a 22 cal Boresnake and pull it from chamber to muzzle.

[765x53]

Use CB-longs and avoid the problems of shorts. http://www.midwayusa.com/product/130136 ... round-nose

[keyston44]

The Henry comes apart very easy. Just remove the 2 screws on each side and the screw holding the stock. Key

[Blaine]

I had a Henry plain-Jane youth model that I was coon-fingering at Cabela's.....every bit as nice as a Marlin, better than the new ones....

[Hagler]

Dave,

I just shove my metal cleaning rod down the barrel, and work it back & forth real good, until my Henry's clean. I do not have a problem with cleaning any barrel that needs to be cleaned that way.

Henry Repeating Arms Company has a slew of Maintenance videos:

http://www.henryrepeating.com/htv-maint ... tion-1.cfm
http://www.henryrepeating.com/htv-maint ... tion-2.cfm
http://www.henryrepeating.com/htv-maint ... tion-3.cfm
http://www.henryrepeating.com/htv-maint ... tion-4.cfm
http://www.henryrepeating.com/htv-maint ... tion-5.cfm
http://www.henryrepeating.com/htv-maint ... tion-6.cfm
http://www.henryrepeating.com/htv-maint ... tion-7.cfm
http://www.henryrepeating.com/htv-maint ... tion-8.cfm

In fact, I usually invite over some shooting buddies, and we all clean our guns, together:



Shawn

[Pete44ru]

The Henry comes apart very easy.

Just remove the 2 screws on each side and the screw holding the stock.
Key

After the above, pull off the buttstock towards the rear and lift the receiver cover upwards, off the actual receiver.

The bolt will either simply sit atop the internal receiver, awaiting you to pluck it off; or the bolt will stay inside the top of the receiver cover - either way clearing the rear of the bbl & chamber for a proper cleaning.

There will be no adjustments or re-adjustments, etc, necessary - just a simple off/on operation.

I clamp my bbl in a padded bench vise, which secures everything not being removed for the cleaning & lube.

When you're ready for a compact peep sight, that'll easily zero using the issue H001 front sight, this is a $26 Williams WM-96 peep, with some orange sight paint I applied to the issue front sight's tip:



AND - if you want a saddle ring via hitting the EASY button, a post-64 Winchester saddle ring is a direct replacement/ swap for the lower LH receiver cover screw:






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[Dave]

Thanks for all the replies! I watched the disassembly video and think I can to that no problem. You have your gun set up nice Pete. I think this gun could make a gun. It has a good feel. I will probably mess around with it until someone asks me if I know where they can get a 22 for their kid and then sell it to them for what I paid. That way I get to enjoy it a while and help some kid get a gun both. It is a pretty cool little gun.

[Newtmaker]

I have a Henry 22 LR and it shoots shorts just fine. At 25 yards they are sorta fun. At 50 yards you can watch the bullet arc to the target.
Forget about groups size unless you have a BIG target.

Walt

[1894c]

I have the Henry Carbine (see attached pic)...and I have been shooting shorts in it all year (bought 5,000 shorts, all I could find at the time), clean it with a bore-snake or with my cleaning rod...you'll want to keep your Henry, I like mine allot... :)

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[firefuzz]

I like that rear sight Pete, did it come with that ghost ring?

Rob

[jazman]

I have the Henry Carbine (see attached pic)...and I have been shooting shorts in it all year (bought 5,000 shorts, all I could find at the time), clean it with a bore-snake or with my cleaning rod...you'll want to keep your Henry, I like mine allot...

h001l-levercarbine-main.jpg

I have the same one, large loop carbine, and it really is one of the most fun guns I own. Very pleased with everything about it, and Henry has superb customer service.

[Pete44ru]

I like that rear sight Pete, did it come with that ghost ring?

Rob

Yeah, Rob, it did - in a way..................

That sight still has it's aperture, which I lined with a white sling swivel QD stud spacer, to make it easier to pick up when taking a snap shot - but I drilled out that aperture with the largest drill bit that would slide into the front of the threaded aperture stem

FWIW, any peep sight can be converted to a Ghost Ring via removing the aperture .

A naked/threaded aperture holder acts exactly like a smooth-inside Ghost Ring, because the threads are too close to the shooter's eye to be in focus - especially since the best practice for peep sight usage is to look through the peep/aperture, w/o actually seeing it, and focus instead on placing the front sight "on target". (The human eye will auto-center itself in the aperture)




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[rossim92]

i BOUGHT ONE ABOUT A YEAR AGO AND SCOPED IT. PUT ON A LEVERWRAP. tOOK IT OUT TO THE WOODS THIS WEEKEND TO SIGHT IT IN AND IT WAS PLACING A NICE GROUP. i USED AN OLD SHOTSHELL BOX WITH A PICTURE OF A DUCK ON THE FRONT AT 30 yards. I had grabbed an old box of ammo to shoot up first, it had the lr, l and shorts mixed in. just loaded in whatever came out of ammo box first, shot all three types , no problem.. Afterwards ran a wet patch through the barrel first, then a bore snake from the receiver towards the crown, then ran a oiled patch through to keep the rust bunnies out. a sweet gun for plinking and small game. I want the henry .22lr pump action rifle , but would like the .22 magnum version though for my next gun.. kind of hard to find used ones in my neck of the woods, and have not bought one off sites such as gunbroker..

[AJMD429]

We use little "test tube brushes" that are stiff-bristled black plastic, and on about a six inch twisted wire handle that would easily flex enough to go in the side opening of the receiver and into the chamber. Carolina Biological supply sells them, so does Henry Schein. Probably hobby shops. I've seen brass ones as well, but stiff plastic could work.

[Dave]

Bump for target pic