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custom Henry Mare's Legs
- Sir Henry
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custom Henry Mare's Legs
I built two custom Henry rimfire Mare's Legs in December of 2013. I bought two .22LR Mare's Legs and two .22WMR rifles. My goal was to built two .22WMR Mare's Legs. At the time Henry did not offer them. They do now but only with the round barrel. I made one from a round barrel and one from an octagon barrel. I had to completely disassemble two rifles, have the barrels cut down and then have the rifles rebarelled by Henry.
I don't have all the pictures in one place and couldn't find many of them but here are a few.
This picture shows the octagon rifle completely torn apart. For this to work the headspace needed to be correct. I measured the pin notches and they seemed to be the same. Even a slight difference would make them useless. It was a big gamble but it worked. The receivers are different but the differences wasn't in the measurements. Long story short I now have the only Henry Mare's Leg with an octagon barrel and also it is in .22WMR. It would have been much easier to just cut down a rifle but that would be illegal so I had to switch barrels. It was also very expensive. I have about $800 into the custom Mare's Leg but that also includes other modifications.
Here is the pistol today. On a side note this is the red stuff in the screw holes.
I don't have all the pictures in one place and couldn't find many of them but here are a few.
This picture shows the octagon rifle completely torn apart. For this to work the headspace needed to be correct. I measured the pin notches and they seemed to be the same. Even a slight difference would make them useless. It was a big gamble but it worked. The receivers are different but the differences wasn't in the measurements. Long story short I now have the only Henry Mare's Leg with an octagon barrel and also it is in .22WMR. It would have been much easier to just cut down a rifle but that would be illegal so I had to switch barrels. It was also very expensive. I have about $800 into the custom Mare's Leg but that also includes other modifications.
Here is the pistol today. On a side note this is the red stuff in the screw holes.
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Hi, my name is Gene and I'm a Henryholic from Wisconsin.
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Re: custom Henry Mare's Legs
Thanks for the beautiful photos and the description of your modifications and your reasons for making them. This is why you are "Sir Henry"!
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Re: custom Henry Mare's Legs
You should put a rail where that dovetail cover on the barrel is, this would be like a laser with a good optic.
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Re: custom Henry Mare's Legs
If I were to do it again I would use a Small Game Carbine as a doner which doesn't have the dovetail or the screw holes.SingleAction357 wrote:You should put a rail where that dovetail cover on the barrel is, this would be like a laser with a good optic.
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Re: custom Henry Mare's Legs
I really wanna see people toy with cerakote, rails, laminated stocks on mares legs. Makes em a more versatile pack gun.
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Re: custom Henry Mare's Legs
nicely done .... a clear demonstration of skills I do not possess but really do admire
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I like the idea of a laminate stock. Two of my M'sLgs are scoped. Very accurate for a pistol but not against a rifle.SingleAction357 wrote:I really wanna see people toy with cerakote, rails, laminated stocks on mares legs. Makes em a more versatile pack gun.
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Re: custom Henry Mare's Legs
A sweet piece of work and art.
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Re: custom Henry Mare's Legs
Very nice. I like them a lot, I think they are too cool. I think they'd be fun to shoot and easy to haul around the farm...
But I went with the carbine instead.
But I went with the carbine instead.
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Re: custom Henry Mare's Legs
In Washington State you can not have a loaded rifle in a vehicle but you can a pistol.BrokenolMarine wrote:Very nice. I like them a lot, I think they are too cool. I think they'd be fun to shoot and easy to haul around the farm...
But I went with the carbine instead.
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