Henry Repeating Arms Cowboy Carbine Side-Gate Lever Action Rifle – A Revolution

By David LaPell

David gives us a first look at the brand new Henry Repeating Arms Cowboy Carbine Side-Gate Lever Action Rifle.

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- The lever action rifle is a staple of American firearms history and with it, the companies that produced them not only for decades but for well over a century and more. Winchester, of course, being the most well known following the American Civil War helped tame the west with the 1866 Yellow Boy, the 1873 and the succeeding models that followed that were produced in the millions.

Not to be outdone, in 1872 John Mahlon Marlin founded the Marlin Firearms Company, starting with single shot rifles and then the Model 1881 lever action, which was a game changer, the first of its kind that was chambered in .45-70 Government. For a long time, those two companies were the big names when it comes to lever actions for the last century or more with a few other companies coming and going in between.

That all changed in 1996 when the father and son duo of Louis and Anthony Imperato formed the Henry Repeating Arms Company. [not to be confused with the Henry …Read the Rest