Local Gander Mountain has a very new looking henry carbine lever 22 on the used rack for $199. It looks brand new except someone burred up the screw heads which lead me to think bubba gunsmith has occurred.

Take a chance and look it over and pick it up if things look in order?

Yea its spooky that the gun is almost perfect other than the suspicious screws....

Which screw heads, on the receiver cover? Yea, I'd be very suspicious. Does it function fine otherwise?

screws are cheap....

It was a fast trip through there and they have the lever zip tied shut because a trigger lock doesn't work on it. I didn't take the time to have the zip tie removes to try it.

The screw I noticed was at the lever pivot and around that area. Some at the barrel band too. Its things you would expect to see on a well worn and refinished marlin 336.

If its still there, I'm going to give it a look over and if it functions, I will buy it and fix the screws. I think Gander has a firearm guarantee so I may be protected by that.


This would be a nice little rifle since my quest to find a marlin mountie is not working.

Bought it.
Action worked smooth and the rifle is in superb shape that I will replace the screw.
Tried feeding shells through and flawless and it ejects very well.

Plan on test firing it Sunday.

The only downfall on these is the painted receivers.

Sounds like a nice buy!

Well how did it go?

I bought a new one for $239 a few years ago.

update:
Gun shoots well and works well... except:
The feed tube will rotate from unlock and start to push out. You cant see the magazine telescope out when shooting and you detect it by not feeding the next round.
Henry doesn't have a back slope on their lock notch so this is bound to happen. I ground a half diameter detent with my dremel and found a thicker o-ring to use as the lock spring and it feels much better.
The rear sight wouldn't move for me so I need to oil that and get a bigger brass punch for the next range trip.
It seems to shoot pretty accurate for the crude iron sights so I will put a scope on it to test it out. I suspect it will shoot on par with my plain jane 10-22.
Downloaded the henry book and will order the 2 screws after the holidays.

So I am so price neutral on the gun and probably can sell it any time. Its a fun little gun that works slick and may be my goof around lever 22 when I want to pretend to shoot the opening scene from the rifleman!

I fear this may go down the road in a year or two because I think I just picked up a nice rem 121 pump 22 this week and that maybe a keeper.

Is there some kinda law that says a feller can't have a leevergun AND a pumper?

i picked up a Henry youth model about 8 yrs ago for the kids to use. we never could get the POI low enough to shoot at 20 yrds even with the rear ramp as low as it would go it was still about 1 1/2" or so high. never got a different lower front bead site for it my kids just learned to use some Kentucky windage. it shot ok but not nears as good as my 39 and i eventually moved it down the road for something else. it did always feed and eject well with most ammo and for the price not a bad little rifle. we too experienced the mag tube thing on occasion.

Nope. Its just my impulsive buying habits and eventually I keep what I truly like and the Model 39A and rem 121 may crowd out the henry if the safe gets anymore full.

Although I started thinking I better check my home owners policy on firearms and how they handle replacement and if I have enough coverage...