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Any more Long Rangers in the house?

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Re: Any more Long Rangers in the house?

Post by Travlin » Thu Feb 23, 2017 8:13 pm

Those are most excellent looking rifles . The craftsmanship and the attention to detail is outstandingly evident in both of them. Thanks for posting and I am sure we are all looking forward to a range report.

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Re: Any more Long Rangers in the house?

Post by ditto1958 » Thu Feb 23, 2017 8:33 pm

Travlin wrote:Those are most excellent looking rifles . The craftsmanship and the attention to detail is outstandingly evident in both of them. Thanks for posting and I am sure we are all looking forward to a range report.
Yes, we certainly are looking forward to a range report.

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Re: Any more Long Rangers in the house?

Post by ditto1958 » Thu Feb 23, 2017 8:37 pm

Sir Henry wrote:
Travlin wrote:We thought that those that brought this forum into being would show the rest of us the way by getting any of the new H.R.A. rifles as they come to be available .
I have had one on order since last summer.
Seems longer than that.

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Re: Any more Long Rangers in the house?

Post by Xraydave » Thu Feb 23, 2017 10:20 pm

I picked on up a week ago. It is shooting 165 grain ballistic tips and 175 grain ELDX bullets around an inch. Trigger is excellent. Fit and Finish is excellent. I'm very happy with it so far and expect to improve accuracy with some more reloading work. Not that 1" groups need to be improved on. This is my second Henry, Got the 45/70 about 6 months ago and accuracy with it has been excellent as well.

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Re: Any more Long Rangers in the house?

Post by JEBar » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:43 pm

Xraydave wrote:I picked on up a week ago. It is shooting 165 grain ballistic tips and 175 grain ELDX bullets around an inch. Trigger is excellent. Fit and Finish is excellent. I'm very happy with it so far and expect to improve accuracy with some more reloading work. Not that 1" groups need to be improved on. This is my second Henry, Got the 45/70 about 6 months ago and accuracy with it has been excellent as well.
first, welcome to our forum, happy to have you join us .... good to hear your reports on your Long Ranger .... not surprised to hear the report on your 45-70, ours does well .... please go to our How Many ? thread http://henryrifleforums.com/viewtopic.p ... 402#p33402 and add your Henry Rifles to our forum total

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Re: Any more Long Rangers in the house?

Post by ditto1958 » Sat Feb 25, 2017 9:12 pm

Xraydave wrote:I picked on up a week ago. It is shooting 165 grain ballistic tips and 175 grain ELDX bullets around an inch. Trigger is excellent. Fit and Finish is excellent. I'm very happy with it so far and expect to improve accuracy with some more reloading work. Not that 1" groups need to be improved on. This is my second Henry, Got the 45/70 about 6 months ago and accuracy with it has been excellent as well.
Good to hear!

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Re: Any more Long Rangers in the house?

Post by daytime dave » Tue Feb 28, 2017 6:38 am

I'm also interested in how they shoot.
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Re: Any more Long Rangers in the house?

Post by Smoke4320 » Tue Feb 28, 2017 2:14 pm

Yes waiting some more accuracy repots before plunking down the Money for a 308LR
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Re: Any more Long Rangers in the house?

Post by Xraydave » Mon Mar 06, 2017 10:13 pm

Really starting to like mine. It is really tightening up after the first 50 rounds. Using 178 grain Hornady ELDX bullets. Is everyone else carefully using a cleaning rod from the muzzle end or using a bore snake? I'm using a rod and trying to be very careful with the crown. Gonna try 150 grain partitions and ballistic tips as well.

Fri

Re: Any more Long Rangers in the house?

Post by Fri » Tue Mar 07, 2017 3:31 pm

Still haven't had a chance to get out to the range with mine yet. I'll have some time tomorrow and the weather forecast looks promising as of right now. Will definitely let you know when I get a range report up.

On another note, I had stock watches set up on several websites when I was looking for my 223. I just got an email today from Kentucky Gun Co saying they are in stock. Here is the link if anyone is interested: https://kygunco.com/Product/View?ItemNo=60216

Chris

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