I have two other Henry rifles. A 22 and a 22 magnum,both are decent guns that were designed and made by Erma of Germany before Henry began to manufacture them.
The 30-30 is different,the design is fundamentally flawed. And you just can't fix stupid. I called Henry and they told me the action is designed so that if opened to a tiny degree while loaded,the bolt can not be closed. This works in concert with the fact that the action tends to pop open a couple of millimeters when cycled with enough effort to get the thing to feed from the magazine.
Furthermore,the rifle can not be sighted in with factory ammo. The front sight is too short and since it is not replaceable,as no other sight to fit is available from the factory or an aftermarket source.
I plan on returning it to my dealer,I hope I can get a refund because the rifle is an abortion from a design point of view in my honest opinion.
If pioneers had tried to fight plains Indians with this thing,a lot of us would still speak Comanche.
