Henry Rifle Forums

Howdy members. I'm new to the forum, new to Henry ownership and other than that, an old coot.
I wanted a Henry pretty much since I was a kid. I finally bought mine and it is amazing. Proud to have an all American rifle.

I missed out hunting with it last year receiving it just after deer season ended. Opening weekend last Saturday I fired my first shot at an animal with my new Henry. Turned out to be the biggest buck I've ever shot in 45 years of hunting. Apparently, I should have bought it years ago!

Welcome fergy from a So-Cal shooter. And congrats on getting your buck! You picked a good rifle/ caliber there. Again, welcome.

Welcome to the forum. Congrats on the Henry and the Deer. Hope you enjoy the forum

Welcome aboard there Ferg, Congrats on the big deer with the new Henry right off the bat.
Pics. of the ole buck and rifle would be a pleasure...Just sayin.
Did you use factory ammo, or are you a reloader like myself and a few others?

RP

Very cool, on both the rifle and harvesting a deer. Welcome from Dacotah

welcome to our forum .... congrats on your new 44 and on the big buck .... our Henry 44 Mag is one heck of a shooter and I'm sure yours is as well .... be sure to click on the link bellow and add yours to our community's total


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Welcome, fergy , have fun with this nice gun !

Welcome to the forum fergy.

Welcome from Western North Carolina fergy.
Congrats on your new rifle and the Buck!

Welcome and great success story! Pics? We love pics haha

Thanks all. Yes this gun is a shooter. So fun and easy to shoot. I had a Rossi but it was a project to get it performing with just open sights. I shot quite a few deer with it but, it wasn't the gun I wanted and it wasn't as fun. I used handloads with the Rossi, a load I worked up that grouped the tightest using HP38 and Hornady XTP soft points. I still have maybe 80 rounds of such but when I went out to the range with the Henry, it much preferred the Remington 240 HTP soft points for grouping. I also shot some Win white box 240 soft points which I had laying around. One of these days I'll probably do another range of loads and go shoot them to see what groupings i can get with each powder load, but for now, the Rem HTP's are killing animals. (shot a pretty good hog this weekend)
I sold the Rossi and a couple other guns to buy the Henry and made about double what I expected, so I also bought a Leupold VX 3i 3.5-10 scope with the money. And had a few hundie to give the wifey for her play money. The scope is really fine and brighter than anything I've ever had. In fact, I saw this buck with only about 2 minutes of legal shooting time left and assumed he was a young buck I had seen all around me that evening, but when I put up the scope and looked at him, I pulled back the hammer and aimed and shot. I knew he was a decent buck but once I walked over to him, and saw how big he was, I just looked up to the sky and thanked my Maker! I also thanked God that the buck only jumped a few yards and was laying right in my quad runner trail. If I'd had to drag him very far, I'd still be out there I think.
Here's a pic of the Henry and the Buck

Very nice Buck!
Congrats on the new rifle and getting it dialed in as well.

Welcome from the Land of Sugar!
Jake

Wow! I'd say everything is right in that picture. Nicely done.

Thanks. It's gona be hard for me to beat that buck.

welcome !

Nice photo

Welcome aboard