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Looks like an old Colt, High Standard and H&R had a "three way". $928....

Why does everything this company makes look like a toy?

Would you say that about an old Colt, High Standard, or H&R?


Seriously, in today's context, Henry's products are technically toys.......very nice toys.

Uhhhh, those are an eye sore. Just no accounting for taste anymore.

Fugly shouldn't cost dams near $1k.

No more so than the fake stag and fake ivory grips or skeletonized triggers I see on a lot of 1911s. Not that I'd want one of these either, but some Henry fans probably will.

Reminds me a bit of some of the old Iver Johnsons.

Look at it for more than 30 seconds. I couldn't do it.

Agreed.

I don't anticipate many sales.

They look like toys because Henry apparently can’t fit a side plate to not have a giant gap and washed out corners. And they thought it a good idea to fit them with what is likely a brass plated pot metal grip frame, at best and still tacky an actual brass grip frame.

Both of those are a result of cost cutting measures like tumble polishing the frames and sideplates hence no nice fit on the joints. And the grip frames are almost certainly a casting, it’s easier and cheaper to cast pot metal than it is to cast, forge, or machine steel.

I also never saw a Colt that hadn’t been poorly refinished that looked as cheap as these. H&R and HS, yeah they both turned out some crap for the revolver market over the years.

I'm finding more wrong than right there. They need to erase everything that isn't a Colt Lawman, and start over.

I bet that saw-handle protrusion at the top of the grip would get old quick, shooting full power 180 grain 357s.

Certainly not at that price.

Just based on the aesthetics alone, I'm confident it will sell quite well...Like I said, people have NOT taste. Remember, people actually buy tactical lever actions with rails on them.
However, at 1k you'd be an idiot not to buy a real revolver from S&W, Ruger, Colt, or Uberti. I'd take a brass frame, bead blasted and blued Uberti over that monstrous horrendum.

Since my identically named thread that was posted fifteen minutes before this one has been ignored, I’ll add my comments here. Everything they make is ugly. Why do they always use brass? I don’t get it.

If they WERE going to use brass, why make a double action that otherwise looks like something made post turn of the 20th Century when brass framed revolvers were more than fifty years out of date? Why not make a single action? There were a few cartridge conversion single actions that probably had brass frames at some point or another.

Nope. No way.

I'd sooner buy one of those Rock Island Armory 38 revolvers for $200 or so.

For $928 you can pick up a nice smith 14, 19, 28 for less than that. Hell you can buy a new 686 for that..

It’s almost like they chose the worst selling features to bring to market.

4” mid sized frame so not catering to the CCW crowd

4” and fixed sights so not catering to the range and target shooting crowd

357/38 only plus 4” only and no adjustable sights so probably not many handgun hunters going to buy one

Really the only thing I see that might be ever so slightly marketable is the silly brass frame and that’s only for the play dress up CAS crowd who probably aren’t interested in a DA with a swing out cylinder.

I might have to buy a couple of them. When they’re discontinued because they sold 114 in the first year of production they might be a rare collector item in 50-60 years.

I have one I'll sell ya. Sometimes it goes "Bang!" when you pull the trigger. Not often, but sometimes.

Do you have to pull the pin and take the cylinder out to load it?