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I made a trade last week for my first Henry and am very happy with it so far. It’s a 357 Big Boy Mare’s leg built in the spring of this year. It did not see much use from the previous owner so it will need a lot of breaking in. I am getting good accuracy with it at 10-20 yards resting the rise in the stock just under my chin. It has no recoil with my reloads really so think it will be a lot of fun for Cowboy shooting. By they way we are pretty loose on guns down here and I write the stages. I have taken it a part and applied some lithium grease here and there and the more I cycle it the smoother it gets. The only issue I am finding is when I load through the side gate it seems to bind up a bit on the third round. There seem to be no cycling issues though. I also find the lever safety spring is very tight are there any fixes for that? I hope with use it gets better or I get used to it.


The rifle is very simple to take down so I think if needed I will just stone the internals myself. I don’t plan to touch anything until I cycle it a bit. Nice gun though and I have drank the 1894 koolaid which is so sweet.

Any hiccups or things I should watch out for?

IanC wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 08, 2024 2:12 pm

I made a trade last week for my first Henry and am very happy with it so far. It’s a 357 Big Boy Mare’s leg built in the spring of this year. ...

Congratulations!

Warning: this will lead to other Henry purchases.

Not really sure what happened but apparently American Walnut is a white wood, better not strip it!

Hah, you got your first bit of 'character'.
Only the heartwood in American Walnut is brown. Outside the heart it is white.
The other thing it could be is damaged aluminum oxide clear coat. When bruised or gouged the oxide goes white.

Congrats and welcome to group!

Welcome and nice Mares leg!

Welcome to the forum. Glad you found us.

Took it out to the cowboy match today and there were a couple five round rifle stages. When the clock is ticking I don’t seem to notice a heavy trigger although the lever safety spring tension tripped me up for one shot. Had a really great time with it. No issues at all even loading through the side gate was no problem. Surprised at how well it runs with SWC bullets….I picked up a concert uklulele case as well its a perfect fit.

Congratulations. It’s a nice looking Mares Leg.

Congratulations on the new Henry. They can become habit forming.

I have hopes one day of getting one and turning it into an SBR. Would Love one with the full length stock on her. But will hate the wait on the 200 stamp for it.