Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Single Shots Just noticed that Henry has single shots coming.

If there was a .357 I would snag one and ream it to Maximum. I've done it myself with a couple T/Cs and a couple Handi rifles, they all shoot very well.

I emailed Henry, they will also be making one in 30-30.

praise be! ! thanks for posting the info

That I will own.

I emailed as well to make few suggestions and give them some insight into whom the buyers of these firearms will be. I wanted them to know how some of us think and give them the information that they may be missing some market share.

I wish you'd tell me that info, I'd like to know.

Ruger did make a few hundred .30-30's in the #1A, but they are now rare and spendy.

H&R also made some 30/30 and they are not that spendy if you can find one. I walked away from several and I like the 30/30. For anyone serious, these are out there.

http://www.gunauction.com/buy/7892756

The thing of it is: talk online is one thing, buying is another. Most of the talkers have enough 30/30s already.

The 30/30 was the most popular round in America at one time. We have not all died yet and we like to talk. I just saw two, that is 'two', used bolt action 30/30 in an LGS. I think savage. With all the appropriate rimless options, there was enough demand for a 30/30 bolt, of all things!

Times change and today a 30/30 in any NEW gun, even lever, is fairly uncommon. Someday, there will be a movie or some reason it will get re-discovered. The glut of used Model 94 at low cost might entice the new generation. Maybe someone will come out with a 30/30 AR version, that would clinch it.

I hope henry can build some and they sell well. I dont know why I should care, .... but; such is the nature of these things.

Here is an old listing on the H&R, specs, prices, etc

http://www.wholesalehunter.com/product.asp?productid=5862

To balance my last post, the reason I am looking forward to the Henry single shot is that it apparently splits the difference in price & quality between the No1 and H&R. That might just work for Henry and if they can satisfy some caliber fetishes along the way, that is great too.

earlier post mentioned that they were told the twist on the 44 mag barrel was 1 in 38, I was told, also via email that the twist on the 44 mag barrel will be one in 20, a very good feature. Maybe we have some mis info, 1/38 vs. 1/20. hope it's 1/20.

Anybody seen any evidence for a barrel-switching feature on the Henry rifles? To me, that, after the easy takedown into two "halves," is the big selling feature for break-action single shots.

It also makes it more feasible for the mfr. to cater to the taste of rifle loonies like me who love old and oddball calibers (The .308 IS a superior caliber. But I would rather have a .30-40 Krag/US in a single shot. Actually I DO have TWO! You say .243. Sensible. But I say .25-35....).

Fortunately we have the G2 (again) and Match Grade Machine!

With Henry you can send an email direct to the CEO. He will answer. If nothing else he will acknowledge the interest in switch barrel options.

https://www.henryrifles.com/henry-repeating-contact/?concerning=contact-anthony-imperato

Whoever cares also get answer on 44mag twist, direct from the top. Or winchester73, needs to cut & paste the response from the CEO. And clearly state who this email came from.

Thanks, fourbore. I'll do it.

Just thinking out loud here so don’t hold me to hard empirical evidence.

The old single shot rifles and shotguns, H&R etc., were often as not behind the door or behind the seat guns for farmers and ranchers, kept for whatever occasional use one might have for such. My friend’s grandmother “Big Ma” in Alabama had one in 12 gauge for snakes or critters around the henhouse, brand unknown but it kicked like a freakin’ mule, my uncle on the old family farm in NC had a .410 snake charmer variation for much the same reason. I don’t know what’s behind the door of farmhouses and ranches today but I would suspect those old single shots may have been gradually replaced with RAR’s or something like that – I could certainly be wrong.

Anyway, point being that with fewer small farms and ranches around and with other inexpensive utilitarian options available, this Henry is going to have to sell to a more looney market. I think they see this since they put a checkered walnut stock on it instead of plain hardwood. But given that market the make or break on this will be the accuracy, trigger, ease of switching barrels and such. At the circa $300 price point I hope they can manage to pull that off.

I do wish them success in this.

I keep a single shot 20 gauge at the back door for just such occasions.

It worked as intended last year. I'd happily add a 30/30 single shot to the mix. Slim and trim and nice for walks around the property.

I really want the SS 30/30, hopefully it will either have good open sights and some way to attach a peep sight.

Though a Fastfire wouldn't suck.

Nice scattergun, steelhead! Purty copperhead too, now its dead!

It is gratifying to hear all the enthusiasm for the 30/30.

Dont underestimate the stopping power of a 44mag. Without a scope, closer range, the 44mag is darn effective. More ammo that you can wave a stick at from shot shell, to 44spec to maxed out 44mag rifle loads.

the photo on their site looks to be a lyman
folding rear like on the old 10/22's.
it also says it's drilled and tapped for
a scope mount which happens to be the
same as an H&R mount.

when used through a rifle, .357 and .44 mags have way more
power than they do through a shorter handgun. i took
my biggest deer ever this last year with my cheap on clearance
H&R .44 mag