northdude wrote:Not sure if its pot metal. Its made in germany tho. I suspect the reciever might be some type of crappy alloy
I don't think I've seen the Erma .22 levers in the flesh, but that sounds identical to the Henry. The receiver cover is pot-metal, though it does have a very nice finish. The other annoyance I have with mine is the forend moves back and forward about a millimeter, and the buttstock pivots similarly as I lift the rifle into position, then take the weight onto my left hand. Like two physical "clicks".
I took the Henry out twice today. First time I discovered that I can't focus on the front sight at all. I measured the distance from my eye to the rear sight at 300mm in a normal comfortable offhand hold. If I hold my head upright, with my eye 420mm from the rear sight then I can get the front sight into focus. Very annoying as that is not at all a comfortable or easy position when shooting offhand. I might fabricate a front sight extension to move it out 100-120mm past the muzzle and see if that works.
I put 110rds through it, and shot fairly well on the silhouettes, without bothering to check zero or accuracy beforehand.
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I thoroughly messed up the chicken, by shooting from 50m with a 40m hold! I realised as I turned to walk back to 77m when I saw the 50m tagged on the fence - I loaded as soon as I finished on the pig but forgot to walk forward to the 40m line
I finished off with a group from 100m, 77m and 50m, kneeling against a post to check the sight settings. 50m and 77m were spot on, but the 100m setting was shooting 120mm high.
I had more than 10% stovepipe when feeding, but probably related to the S&B Club I was using. It's also very waxy, requiring the rifle to be near vertical when dropping rounds into the tube. Not too upset other than the sight issue. So I went back and dug out a William's dovetail perp sight to see if an aperture might pull my focal distance back enough, but the Henry has an odd dovetail that won't fit it, bugger.
So I threw on a 40-year-old Nikko Stirling 4x32 for a bit of nostalgia
Zeroed it on a fence post at 18m, then put two groups on paper st 50m to finalise it.
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I couldn't see the holes at 4-power, but I figured they'd be close enough. I went and had a look, came up another 8-clicks, and put the caps back on. Both groups were way better than they should've been for the effort I put into them
Then I shot the steels again, 15rds on each with Eley Standard. No feed issues this time. It's very rare that I've ever shot the silhouettes offhand with a scope, so that was a novelty.
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With three rounds left on the ram I suddenly realised the top of the duplex post was my sight holdover! Bugger, but better late than never
I finished the day with 10rds offhand on a 130mm gong at 15m to confirm the close zero, there have been a few rabbits around just lately.