.22 Henry Lever Action .22LR/L/Short

No, but I would be glad to have one in 357, or 30-30

I'm glad to hear they're good guns. I've wondered about them for a while. Thanks.

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marineimaging said:

Darkhorse, I was joking, of course. I didn't realize that it would be taken seriously. Sorry.

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Nothing to be sorry about! I knew you were...

Been taking a bit of time off from this site but I just wanted to say I'm glad you liked the Henry. I don't own one but a couple of friends do and they all love them.

I was going to buy one a couple of years ago but came across an Uberti Silver Boy on Bud's site for $319. Couldn't pass it up.

A friend of mine had a Golden Boy. It is finely crafted and very accurate. My only problem with the gun is that its too purdy to take hunting and risk getting a scratch on it. You are on the right track with wanting the ability to rapid fire .22 short ammo. I owned a Rossi pump action carbine many years ago. It was a clone of the Winchester pump. I never had a problem with it and really liked the way it broke down into a compact 2 pieces you could hide in a backpack. The round I liked shooting outta mine was the CB short. It is very quiet in an urban environment where you need to dispatch a squirrel thats trying to chew a hole into your attic, but I bet you already knew that.

Henry also makes a very nice pump .22

Didn’t know that, bet its a tack driver also. I preferred the pump action and purchased the Rossi/Winchester reproduction because they were cheap and worked well. They are not near the quality of the Henry or Winchester but I never had the Rossi misfunction. I owned a Winchester lever action and it would feed the short rounds just fine, however it wouldn’t work with CCI birdshot. It would break the plastic on the birdshot and then you had to pick all that tiny shot out of the action. We never had that problem on the pump actions. We used the birdshot to clear out pigeons from farmers barns at night. This way we wouldn’t shoot any holes in the roof. Some of the farmers had high dollar hay bales they sold to rich horse owners and couldn’t sell them if they had animal droppings on them. So we kept the barns cleaned out and received permission to hunt and trap the rest of the farmers land in return.

And again. I also have a 22 lever action Winchester 250. Very accurate. But, I would like to own a 10/22 Ruger. But they are too expensive for me, at Wal Mart no less.

MWood said:

And again. I also have a 22 lever action Winchester 250. Very accurate. But, I would like to own a 10/22 Ruger. But they are too expensive for me, at Wal Mart no less.

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I have put guns in Lay a way at wal mart and paid on them a little at a time. Don’t know if they still do that though. I have seen used Rugers at gun shows for 160 dollars.

Galil7.62x51 said:

Didn’t know that, bet its a tack driver also. I preferred the pump action and purchased the Rossi/Winchester reproduction because they were cheap and worked well. They are not near the quality of the Henry or Winchester but I never had the Rossi misfunction. I owned a Winchester lever action and it would feed the short rounds just fine, however it wouldn’t work with CCI birdshot. It would break the plastic on the birdshot and then you had to pick all that tiny shot out of the action. We never had that problem on the pump actions. We used the birdshot to clear out pigeons from farmers barns at night. This way we wouldn’t shoot any holes in the roof. Some of the farmers had high dollar hay bales they sold to rich horse owners and couldn’t sell them if they had animal droppings on them. So we kept the barns cleaned out and received permission to hunt and trap the rest of the farmers land in return.

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I have (according to the serial number and the style of the fore-end, a post WW II Winchester Pump in really nice shape. It shoots everything well. I no longer use it much as I now have three tack drivers; my late friend's single shot Cooey 78 target rifle, my CZ 452 Super Lux and my CZ 455 Military Trainer.

Not sure if there are very many in the USA as they were built in Canada, but the Cooey model 60 (later 600) was a bolt action repeater with a very unique tubular magazine system that would fire shorts to LR ammo. These can be had here in Canada for $150 on up. Accurate.
Cooey was bought out by Winchester, and later sold to Mossberg who moved the operation to Lakefield Ontario. (Lakefield-Mossberg). They still build one Cooey design, the Savage model 64, a good semi for a great price... and still made in Canada!!

Cooey single shots were ubiquitous here in Canada; there was one hanging on a nail in almost every barn, on every farm here in Ontario when I was a kid!

Good article with pictures here: COOEY: THE HISTORY OF CANADA'S GUNMAKER - Calibremag.ca

marineimaging said:

For what it is worth I have 6 .22 rifles of which one is the Ruger 10/22 in SS. Except for the BR25 magazine and shooting 25 times without reloading there is nothing special about it that makes it any better than the others. In retrospect, I bought the 10/22 because I gave in to the hype and it was on sale. After having it for a while and putting on a different stock, scope, etc., I realized that it is still no better than what I already had. In fact, the Remington bolt and Savage bolt are enjoyable and compete to be my most accurate while the Rossi is most convenient as it is a short single shot and combines with the 410 shotgun. The Marlin 60 is a sweet shooter and will fire 14 rounds as fast as I can pull the trigger and almost through the same hole. But my tops of top in accuracy, versatility, and fun to shoot is the Henry lever action since it will shoot short, long, and long rifle. If I had to give up one it would be the 10/22 and if I were to suggest one it would be the Henry .22. Honestly you are not missing anything.

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Regarding the Henry; here in Canada, we can buy a CZ for about the same money as a Henry. For that reason, it's CZ for me!

So true regarding the 10/22. The earlier ones were very consistent in their accuracy; these last 10 years or so they were a bit more hit or miss in both accuracy and reliability. It seems with the 10/22 here in Canada, the only unmodified ones are owned by recreational plinkers who are happy with "minute of pop-can" accuracy. Our club have a bunch of guys who drank the 10/22 coolaid and have spent somewhere between $1000 and $2500 over and above the purchase price to rebarrel (anything from carbon fiber to 1 3/4 diameter bull, re-stock accuritize, custom receivers. tactical platforms, custom finishes). They then bring them out to a competition with their "super rifles" and never even place. It always seems to be one of us old guys with a conventional design rifle, and some Amish kids with their barn rifle that place in the top 5 every time.

What are we doing differently; we get out and shoot! We shoot with the idea that we have to always get better. Yes, their are some .22 rifles that are bad, but for the most part, the shooter rarely gets to the point where they can shoot better than their rifle. When you do, then it's time to think about upgrading! We don't count on our rifle to win for us.

BTW, two rough-tough barn rifles won second place in both Classes at the Amish shoot this year. My BIL's old Winchester, and myself with my friends old Cooey 78 single shot target rifle. My BIL was tied with a guy with a $2000.00 custom "precision long range" rifle, my BIL beat him with his barn rifle I sold him for $100.00 with a 40+ yo Tasco scope.

I was tied with an 18 YO Amish lad for first, he out shot me by one point on the shoot out. Tragically, he was killed in an industrial accident only two weeks ago. Good kid, and just recently married.

I bought/sold used guns in a Pawn Shop for three years.
Never had a Henry come in the shop.
Never met an unhappy owner.
A used Henry .22 is nearly impossible to find. That should tell you something right there.