Gun Review: The Henry AR7 Survival Rifle

By Terril James Herbert

The author finds the Henry AR7 Survival Rifle easier to shoot when placing your support hand over the magazine well rather than under the barrel. (Photo: Terril Herbert)
Today’s modern gun owner takes a lot into consideration when it comes to tactical and survival applications. We tend to shun older designs in exchange for the latest high-speed, low drag development. But this isn’t anything new. In the U.S., it started with the realization that the expensive rifle couldn’t get as much done as the humble smoothbore musket, when tactics and survival were everything.
In terms of guns built specifically for survival applications in mind, the single-barrel shotgun and the .22-caliber rifle reign supreme. Among compact .22 rifles, the AR7 will bring on a suggestive eyebrow raise.
A spin off of a USAF survival rifle from the early 1960s, Armalite produced this collapsible .22 auto-loading rifle for some time until Charter Arms bought the design. Decades on, Henry Repeating took up production of the rifle. So, what is the AR7? To put it simply, it is a light-weight eight-shooter that breaks down and stores in the buttstock for safekeeping. The rifle was meant to be a light-weight camping companion and a convenient tool for

Source: Guns.com