First Time With My H012MAW, 357 Magnum
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2018 9:17 pm
After buying the Henry a few weeks ago, today, we were finally able to get it to the local indoor range. Though the range is only 25 yards long. A few firsts for me and my wife today as well. First time either of us ever shot a lever action rifle, first time shooting a Henry, first time using the Henry style of open sights. Even my Ruger 10/22 has a scope on it.
There's just something about these All Weather models I really like. I bought the Henry wanting to love it and I most certainly do. I shot 10 rounds each at 10, 15, 20 and 25 yards. All 40 shots were within 4". That was standing but leaning a bit against the lane divider. For the last 10 rounds of Federal 158grain JSP I installed the bipod from the Ruger 10/22 onto the Henry. The only 158 grain (357 Magnum) round I found at several Wal Marts was this Federal product. Of course the bipod attaches to the front sling stud just fine but there isn't enough in front of the stud to get good support onto the bipod cradle. Anyway, I tried harder to concentrate on proper sight alignment/sight picture for 8 of the remaining 10 rounds. I was able to get all eight rounds in a 3" group at the 25 yard distance. My wife shot the last two rounds and put both of them center neck of the target.
Bottom line, I'm going to love this Henry All Weather. Now we're even more anxious to get the two .22LR Henry's out. But at our ages, the oem Henry sights are hard to see. I'll most certainly install a Hi Viz front sight. Likely closely followed by a decent scope. I don't reload but we were still able to recover 49 of the 50 spent casings.
The Henry was the last thing we shot today. With the stock sights being harder to see clearly, I'll likely shoot the Henry first instead of after the other rifles or handguns. The other pieces today were 400 rounds through the Ruger 10/22 and 50 rounds of 38 Spl between a 5" Ruger GP-100 and a Ruger LCR.
There's just something about these All Weather models I really like. I bought the Henry wanting to love it and I most certainly do. I shot 10 rounds each at 10, 15, 20 and 25 yards. All 40 shots were within 4". That was standing but leaning a bit against the lane divider. For the last 10 rounds of Federal 158grain JSP I installed the bipod from the Ruger 10/22 onto the Henry. The only 158 grain (357 Magnum) round I found at several Wal Marts was this Federal product. Of course the bipod attaches to the front sling stud just fine but there isn't enough in front of the stud to get good support onto the bipod cradle. Anyway, I tried harder to concentrate on proper sight alignment/sight picture for 8 of the remaining 10 rounds. I was able to get all eight rounds in a 3" group at the 25 yard distance. My wife shot the last two rounds and put both of them center neck of the target.
Bottom line, I'm going to love this Henry All Weather. Now we're even more anxious to get the two .22LR Henry's out. But at our ages, the oem Henry sights are hard to see. I'll most certainly install a Hi Viz front sight. Likely closely followed by a decent scope. I don't reload but we were still able to recover 49 of the 50 spent casings.
The Henry was the last thing we shot today. With the stock sights being harder to see clearly, I'll likely shoot the Henry first instead of after the other rifles or handguns. The other pieces today were 400 rounds through the Ruger 10/22 and 50 rounds of 38 Spl between a 5" Ruger GP-100 and a Ruger LCR.