Rimfire Rifle With Steam Engines

OK; That's cool!

Henry ia fine American company that has been around a good long time.

BTW dollar-for-dollar they produce a great product.

Nice but WOW on the price.  I have a Henry I bought about 12 years ago for $165.00 shoots great use it for squirrels.  Great gun.

Actual price should be $800-$900, but it won't be easy to find.  Especially  since a double collectable commemorative.  Both gun and train collectors will be interested.

 

Richie

Well, I am no fan of "created collectibles", and there are plenty of those in toy/model

trains.  Not the forum to ask it in, but is today's Henry a direct line from those not

enough Yankees had in the Civil War, or is today's company a reincarnation?

Even more interesting is that the website advertising the rifle has on that page two images of foreign trains. I'd say they look Russian. Yes, Russia has the Ice Train. Are images of American trains so hard to come across? (I asked sarcastically.)  

Henry has been around forever.  Good company.  Nice looking rifle. But $1020 for a rim-fitre 22 is a bit steep.  I can get a nice Premier or Legacy engine for that, and I would certainly use that more often.  

 

Still, it is a very good looking rifle.

Agree... Very nice, but that's some serious coin for a 22. Especially for one that I may not want to fire very often.

Shoot it, no way, has to be kept unfired to preserve the collector value. 

EBTJim,

    Now that is way cool and of course its American made, by a truly great American Company, it will be made in America or it will not be made at all, now that is my kind of company.  Great Train engraving, on a fine Henry Rifle.

PCRR/Dave

My dad was an outdoorsman/hunter/fisherman/gun trader, and I went through a gun

phase in my too long a list of hobbies (boy, did they get expensive!), reading the mags, etc. and while I was well aware of Henry "yellowboys" in the Civil War and on the frontier, I only fairly recently saw the brand offered again on firearms?  In the shadows and not advertised?  I just thought the brand had been dormant, and was revived.

I agree. My wife wanted a plinking rifle and she liked the 'feel' of a lever action, so I got her one in .22LR and mounted a scope on it (I know, blasphemy, but that's what she wanted). It's a real nail driver now and is crazy accurate.

I don't know, but buying a $1000 rifle, just to hang up or put away for future value, is like, well, not running trains because they're NIB.  Anyway, guns, to me are for one purpose, and one purpose only.

A Thousand bucks for a rifle with that amount of engraving and carved walnut stock is not out of line. Actually if you can get it for $800 from the dealer that would be a heck of a deal. I will check with Cabelas this weekend for their price, certainly would pull the trigger at $800.

It's exactly like that.

And makes about as much sense.

The engraving is not that big a deal, it's done with a laser probably. I know someone with one of those machines and could carve up a stock with any line art you feed into it.

This is the firearm version of a collector plate...

As for me, I also rather would have stuff that I can take out and use if I want:

In  case there is any doubt, my earlier post was an attempt at humor.  You know, something to make people laugh.

Well, P51, looks like you're ready for any contingency.

Greg:  don't feel bad.  Sometimes I post something I think is funny, and I get demeaned by folks without my particular sense of humor.  

I should show you mine.

 

John:  If I start one of those "show me your"  and use guns, the thread will be dis-allowed.

Looks great.............

Let's not turn this into a "I have lots of guns" thread. It's about the just-announced Henry commemorative rifle paying tribute to American railroads. I have two Henry's now, and will be getting this one (and it will be used, not just hung on a wall). They make great firearms and the firm has a great team of people involved with it. !00% American made...every component.

I was afraid to pursue this line, for fear I'd get the thread booted, now I know why

it wasn't!    I still wanta know where Henry was for years...I thought they were

long absorbed into Winchester.

Before Henry (recently) moved to Bayonne, they were located for many years in Brooklyn, near Pacific St. and 4th Ave.  Not far from Atlantic and Flatbush Aves.  They practically had a subway train right under the factory.

 

Richie

I know who I want in my ZA survival team!

 

Jerry

Ya' have to use it .... at least do some plinking. But, also .... what a wonderful item to be on the wall in the train room!

I have the Henry Golden Boy and will give it to my Grandson and buy the Railroad gun.

Would be interested in a .44mag version.

Hey Marty, I have the Henry Golden Boy also, one super nice lever action.

Henry Rifles are are true Americana.  The Sioux and Cheyenne used them against Custer.  They probably rode in many cabs,along with Winchesters, as the railroads expanded westward.  I am fortunate to own a couple of them:the AR-15 survival .22 and the lever action .44.

They are extremely well made and true out of the box.

 

Norm

although the stock is done by laser, the receiver is done by hand and IT IS a big deal. hand engraving is a lost art. I have had a couple hand engraved pieces and it well exceeded the price of the gun. 

Interesting thread.   I don't own guns. I spend a lot of time in the great out doors but never owned a gun.  There was an incident, when I was in 5th grade, that still haunts me.

I apologies to the OTP, as I said, it is an interesting thread.

Mike CT

For those concerned about the couple of images of possibly foreign locomotives/trains pictured on their info main page for this rifle, be advised that I have already contacted Anthony Imperato, president and CEO of Henry firearms, about replacing those images with a couple of "true" American locomotives. Perhaps the NP 765 and an early 4-4-0 or even Amtrak Acela or some such. Awaiting a reply from the good folks at Henry (they are VERY good at quickly responding to their customers and Facebook followers).

 

Those interested in the history of the firm can click here.

Re some of the pictures of firearms and comments about ownership...

Considering the recent thefts of trains, the risks of bragging about your stuff on a public forum, and the fact that firearms are way more desirable to the criminal element than trains, is posting the pictures and/or talking about what you have a good idea?

 

That said, it was fun looking.

Okay...I read the history of Henry...which only addresses the common knowledge stuff

of the Civil War and the frontier..Custer, etc., whose troops, I think, were mostly armed with single shot rolling block .45-70's (which means that somebody in Washington didn't learn anything from Henrys or Spencers in the Civil War).  (Give

thanks our military now works to stay ahead in technology, with less effort devoted

to frugality with ammunition, and more to survival of our combatants) I used to read

a lot of gun mags and I remember nothing about Henry in any of them until just a

few years ago.  What were they doing between 1880? and maybe 1990, if not later?

With regard to the $1K price of this version, I remember going into my local small

town hardware when just out of school and buying a nice little Stevens auto .22

for maybe $39.95 and carrying it home on foot for several blocks.  Can you imagine

doing that in today's berserk society?

Very neat gun. I'm not a big fan of commemoratives like this one myself, but I did buy one of their Golden Boys soon after they came out. My kids and I have sent untold numbers of tin cans to their graves with it. A few minor corrections, though. The original Henry was indeed connected to Winchester. It was manufactured by the New Haven Arms Co., with Oliver Winchester being the majority partner. He changed the company's name to Winchester after the Civil War. The company making this gun, is not an old company at all, and has no connection to the one which built the origional Henry. They just aquired the rights to use the name. Going off a bit further on a tangent the company's owner claimed he will build his firearms in the USA or not at all!

No, it's not the same firm.  The rifles they make are OK, but receivers in the .22's are nothing to shout about metallurgically, and the wood is sort of non-descript.  I have a regular .22 that shoot everything but magnums , and also the .22 magnum, they shoot fine, but they are pricey.  Who would think a city like NYC would have a gun maker in Brooklyn?

Henry has been around forever.

 

Define forever. 

 

Unless forever was some time in the 1990s these guys have not been around forever.

 

From Wikipedia:

 

Despite advertising which seemingly encourages the misconception, the Henry Repeating Arms Company has no actual association with either the New Haven Arms Company, which manufactured the original Henry rifles and was later renamed the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in 1866, or to Benjamin Tyler Henry, its inventor. The company resurrected the Henry name in 1996^[1] and started manufacturing rifles in Brooklyn, New York.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Repeating_Arms

 

 

 Perhaps they have a bridge for sale too. 

 

 

Here is an excerpt from an article about where Henry rifles are manufactured.  Plants in New Jersey and Wisconsin.  Nothing about a plant in New York

 

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Henry Repeating Arms has been operating in Wisconsin since 2006 at their 138,000 square-foot Rice Lake facility. Henry has steadily increased the number of employees there from 17 to over 100 and continues to hire as they grow. The two plants combined now employ over 300 people.

 

It is at Rice Lake that Henry made parts to supply their main plant in Bayonne, New Jersey. Starting in 2014, Henry will manufacture complete centerfire rifles in Wisconsin, expanding their capacity to satisfy gun orders.

 

*****End of excerpt********

 

 

No link, just google or yahoo search "Henry Firearms plant locations."