The older Handi Rifles were consistently good shooters. The later ones were hit and miss. I ran into several with bad crowns and faulty rifling. I sent a 44 mag back 4 time and never did get one that would do better than 4" group in 50 yards. My older 45-70 Handi Rifles are tack drivers. I have one in 223 that I was considering selling as it was not very accurate. Instead I had the chamber reamed to 556 Nato. That turned it into a very accurate rifle. The same batch of bullets that were marginal in the former chamber are very accurate in the new one, clover leafs at 50 yards.

There was no greater freedom than when I would leave Holiday Park Fish Camp heading my airboat west toward the Big Cypress. Fuel for 4 days, a good machete, an ice chest. No phone, no radio. Just God and me and the Everglades.