Was looking at a used, but never fired, Henry .45-70 the other day and was wondering what a fair price would be for it. I've seen new ones listed online at Cabela's for $749.00. Also the rear aperture is rather large, can those be changed out and if so through whom?

Made an offer and got a hell of a deal. E-mailed XS on the sight and will wait to hear from them. Thanks.

XS sells three smaller sizes for the ghost ring rear sight. Something like $7-8 each if I remember right. Just give them a call and they will fix you up. I bought two different sizes for mine but found a Nikon 1x4 in the safe so am putting that on it instead.

Give them a call, they shipped mine out the same day.

Phoned XS and ordered a .191 rear aperture from them. They were out of the .150 but recommended Brownell's. They run $12.00 each. There is also a threaded option so you can use various threaded disc apertures. Thinking the .191 should be open enough for close work and tight enough for distance. Stock Henry size was a .230.

Just an update. Tried the .191 which really measures about .185 and it was still too large. Ordered a long shank that's threaded to accept various apertures from XS and ordered a 3 aperture set from Brownells that thread into it. The set gives me a .050, a .093 and a .125 aperture. I'm thinking the .050 is def. too small but there is hope for the other two. If all else fails I got the scope mount base numbers from Leupold and Weaver. May end up with a small magnification scope yet. 1x5, 1x6, 2x7 etc.

Tried the .093 and the .050 apertures a few days ago. With the .093 aperture my groups came down to about 4-1/4 inches at 100 yards. I can certainly live with that. The .050 really didn't do any better. The best part was it only took about 30 seconds to swap from one aperture to another. Starting to like the Henry a little better.

I don't know what the intended use for your Henry is, but before heading afield try out those apertures on an overcast day on a low definition target (think deer in the brush or bear in the shadows) The good thing about the screw in aperture is you can take it out and stick it in your pocket when you find you cant get a sight picture, hopefully before the chance at a trophy presents itself.

Good idea. That has been in the back of my mind during this entire process of elimination. I want to be able to effectively place shots, but still get a good fast sight picture on bear or mountain lion. I don't plan on carrying different apertures around with me and will have to decide on one. I'm discovering the key to hitting anything with a large rear peep, for me anyway, is practice, practice, practice. Hopefully as I get better I can go up?

You might consider an adjustable disc by Merit that goes from .025" to .155" by simply turning a ring on the disc....kinda like a variable scope. It has an aperture similar to a camera lens to vary the opening diameter.

merit #4 huning disc

Kind of like that. Could just dial what I want. May still scope it just to see what the rifle is capable of. But at least for now I'm hitting the target.

I put a 1.5x5 Leupold with a German post on mine and I really like it. The field of view is huge and the stock design seems built for using a scope otherwise I need to really press down with my cheek to the stock.
47 grains of RL7 with a 350 grain bullet is the only load I have tried so far but 3 shots is pretty much a cloverleaf at 50 yards. Might drop it down to 45 grains.

When I feel nostalgic I'll carry my Winchester extra lite with the peep sights:)