A beautiful Henry - .410 lever action

[daytime dave]

I was recently at my favorite gun shop, Woods & Waters, in Saranac Lake. I stopped in on my way for a work week at camp. I needed fishing worms, so that was my excuse.
The owner and his son know my tastes and wish list. I saw a very nice condition 4" Ruger Security-Six, but I didn't need any more handguns. I was shown a lever action .410 that I was unfamiliar with. To say it was ugly was to say it just wasn't my style. We have a Henry .410. That's all I needed to hear. The most beautiful Henry I've ever seen in person came out of the box in front of me. I knew that I "needed" it as soon as I saw it. The checkering and Henry name on the wood is unbelievable. The barrel is 19.8" cylinder bore. They knew I was going to keep it as soon as I saw it. It's side gate just finished off a wonderful creation.













I can't say enough how beautiful it is. I would have been happy with the blued and walnut of either length barrel, but this one is what came to them and now to me. It will be a nice hunting gun for the farm as the woods are thick and I don't have a lot of open spaces. It should be a nice companion to my Henry garden gun too. It will be able to deal with larger pests at a bit longer distance. Win, win.

[daytime dave]

I was able to take the shotgun out today and pattern it. Hopefully the shot pattern is visible in the photographs. The cardboard I shot at was just over 3 feet by 3 feet. I used my range finder for the distance measurements. The ammunition was some Remington .410 sporting clays #8s I got for free from someone. They were the first box of 2 and 1/2" shells I came across.

The 10 yd is a bit off due to me not taking my time. The 25 yd target was dead center sighting. It filled the cubic yard in case you can't see it. So 25 yds seems to be the MAX for me. No problem. There was even shot dispersal across that square.

[JEBar]

beautiful indeed .... I've never owned or even wanted a 410 but getting my hands on one like yours could easily result in a 180 degree pivot .. .. does it have choke tubes ..?.. be sure to add it to our How Many ? thread

[markiver54]

That is awesome Dave! What a beautiful shotgun.
My thoughts are parallel to Jim's

[Headhog]

Plus 1 on the other comments. That certainly one beautiful and well finished Henry. The checkering and engraving on the stock, is the icing on the cake. Best of luck with it.

Paul

[Vaquero]

Nice grab Dave, what is the choke on those things?
I saw one of the blued ones a month or so back.
Heck I have 3 410's now.
The shells are hard to find locally, hopefully
with Fall coming on they will start appearing.

RP

[pennsylvaniapete]

Holly crap……I have never seen a .410 anything that beautiful. Can I ask how much that was!

The woodwork is amazing.

[fortyshooter]

A beautiful 410 shooter Dave and great job on grabbing it quick! Don't think it would have been sittin in the shop for long.

I love that foregrip with the Henry engraving! Wonder if those are available separate to fit other carbines?

[pennsylvaniapete]

OK everybody…..lets start a bidding war for Dave’s recent purchase.
I will start with an opening bid of $1,200.

Dave ought to get a kick out of this!

[Vaquero]

I'd rather have the blued one I saw recently, besides
I despise those stocks.
If I had it I'd send them to forty I buy a set of plain stocks.
You know what they say about opinions, right??

RP

[daytime dave]

Vaquereo, there is no choke, cylinder bore. I believe the 24" barrel .410 comes with a full choke tube and other chokes are available from Henry.

PennPete, your opening bid is 200 north of the grand I paid. I haven't spent a grand on anything so "grand" in a long time!

[pennsylvaniapete]

I was attempting to drive up the bids for you….

[daytime dave]

I was attempting to drive up the bids for you….

Ha ha ha. Not for sale.



Nice avatar by the way.

[BrokenolMarine]

Beautiful. Tina has a nice 410 defender shotgun, a fave. She uses it around the farm, a lot, and effectively. You could ask the varmints. Oh wait, no you couldn't.


I'd be afraid to use that shotgun as a shotgun however, too pretty.

[Sir Henry]

Beautiful find! It’s a shotgun I want to find.

[PBSnooker]

It will also make a nice slug gun.

[Hatchdog]

Interesting with the rifle sights on it. Maybe not so great for birds on the wing but that would be wonderful for pest control and other stationary targets. Squirrels maybe??? Not sure as the only squirrel shooting around here is ground squirrels which are considered pests. Regardless that’s one fine looking shotgun.

[GFK]

Nice looking firearm!

[daytime dave]

I'd be afraid to use that shotgun as a shotgun however, too pretty.

It's going to be used as a shotgun. Time will tell how well those sights will work on any birds. I mainly have it for pests and squirrel & rabbit hunting my thickly wooded property. If the season is right and a game bird comes in line, we will see.......

[graywolf]

That’s a sharp looking shotgun.