My latest purchase

smokeywolf

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Beautiful! Reminiscent of a model '06 Winchester. What's the kluge in front of the trigger guard? Also, do my eyes deceive me or is that a octagon barrel? Either way I really like it. If it were me, I'd be telling the wife that I bought it for the grandson. HEE-HEE.
Is it actually manufactured in the U.S.?
 

Ben

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smokeywolf,

Yes, Octagon !
Thanks for pointing that out.
I edited my OP.

What's the kluge in front of the trigger guard?
It opens the action if a loaded round is in the chamber.

If it were me, I'd be telling the wife that I bought it for the grandson.
You've been reading my lines haven't you ?

Thanks,
Ben

Specifications of the rifle here :

https://www.henryrifles.com/rifles/pump-action-octagon-rifle/
 
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Brad

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What is that large round thing on the top of the rifle? Surely you have a receiver sight for it.
 
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smokeywolf

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Made in America and looks like that. What's not to love? Your going to have to do lots and lots of testing before handing it the grandson. I've always had a weakness (or is it preference) for the octagon barrels. There goes your stash of 22s.

I remember like it was yesterday, nine or ten years old, walking the perimeter of an alfalfa field (Dad knew the farmer), thinning out a jack rabbit population. Had my 22 single action Colt on my right hip and a model '06 Winchester pump 22 in my left hand. The pistol was loaded with snake shot just in case. Just in case came one day when I almost stepped on a baby rattler.
50 years later and I still take that model '06 to the range once in a while. First rifle my boys shot. You really woke up some memories with this one.

Your grandson will treasure that rifle when he's your age. Our age.
 

Ben

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What is that large round thing on the top of the rifle? Surely you have a receiver sight for it.


I'll test it with the glass , find a lot of ammo that the rifle likes and then most likely
go back to metallic sights.

Ben
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Whew, I was worried for a minute.
That is a nice looking rifle. My dad has an old Win pump 22 he had as a kid in the late 40s. Smooth action on that rifle.
I can't wait to see how well it shoots.
 

Brad

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Very much so.
He had to have some work done as the rifle didn't like to extract 22 LR very well. He figured it had been used for years with shorts at shooting galleries before his father got it for he and his twin brother.
Some day that rifle will likely be mine.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Wow, Ben, you actually bought something that didn't need refinishing!

Henry rifles, "Made in the USA or not at all". By golly. Now, if they'd make a brass receiver option for, say $100 more, I might have one. I just can't abide black paint next to all that other beautiful blued steel and Walnut.

Those Model 06 Winchesters are really neat, I have a take-down version with something like minus 20% of the original finish but no real rust issues or action wear, it's tight as a drum and will cycle empties. It simply dotes on heavy subsonic LR ammo.
 

carpetman

Active Member
I've resisted any urge to get a Concealed Carry permit as I consider it a tax to do what is my right. But I have decided to get one and will take the class Sunday. Didn't have a suitable carry gun, so yesterday I bought a Kimber in .380ACP. I did buy reloading dies but doubt that I'll buy casting equipment for it. Going with a neighbor and shoot it Saturday. Looked at holsters and decided a handkerchief wrapped around it and put it in my pocket works for me. Can even leave the tail of the hankie hanging out my pocket.
 

Pistolero

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Of course you can do what you want, but I would recommend a pocket holster. I have one with a heavy flat piece
of leather with the holster stitched to the back. The flat piece makes it print like a wallet. More than a few
folks have had a trigger get tangled up in "stuff" like a handkerchief and as they pull it out. . . .

Good that you have something. Remember, you have exactly as much security as you brought with you in
99% of the places you go.
 

carpetman

Active Member
Of course you can do what you want, but I would recommend a pocket holster. I have one with a heavy flat piece
of leather with the holster stitched to the back. The flat piece makes it print like a wallet. More than a few
folks have had a trigger get tangled up in "stuff" like a handkerchief and as they pull it out. . . .

Good that you have something. Remember, you have exactly as much security as you brought with you in
99% of the places you go.
Pistolero, I would find it every bit as disturbing to shoot myself as I would to get shot by someone else. For that reason I plan to carry, when I do carry, with an empty chamber. A handkerchief getting tangled to the point it would pull the slide back and release it and pull the trigger would ALMOST be worth getting shot over just to see it. LOL
 

Pistolero

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OK, that is pretty darned safe. I carry a P3AT with a round in the chamber.
Long double action is safe that way - IN A HOLSTER.
 

smokeywolf

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Haven't packed a carry gun since I left law enforcement in the early '80s. Always carried in a shoulder rig, waistband holster or as a last choice, an ankle holster. Always carried one in the chamber. When you need a firearm in your hand for defense purposes, you sometimes need it 5 seconds before you knew that you needed it.
As a backup I always carried a 38 Detective Special. If carrying only one, I wouldn't be comfortable with anything smaller than 10mm. My main carry was always a bone stock, all original WW I era 1911.