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
