My first Henry was the BB Bronze with octagon barrel. Back in 2016, at the birth of the HRF, I "met" CT_Shooter and found his Henry centerfire was the same .357 model I had. That heavy dude always made its presence known to my left arm when shooting it. Kind of like Gunny Gene's description in above thread: "arm wrestling." CT loves his BBB, and the barrel weight didn't bother him as it did me. He still has his rifle, and shoots it well today.
In one of my April 2016 range reports on the BBB, Retired SeaBee posted his interesting look at a heavy rifle. Thought I'd bring back his thought one more time.
Finally, please don't misunderstand me. I thought my first Henry was a really beautiful piece of workmanship with the bronze, great MO wood, and the cool-looking octagon barrel. Not only that, it was an accurate shooter with that silky-smooth Henry lever action.RetiredSeabee wrote: ↑Sat Apr 23, 2016 9:00 pmIt is amazing how heavy a rifle is when you are trying hard to shoot better. And how much lighter it can seem when you just let that all go and shoot.
I tend to get some of my best targets when I forget about trying and shoot by instinct.
PT7
