Henry Single Shot Rifle in 243 Winchester: Gun Review ~ VIDEO

By Terril Hebert

Terril reviews the Henry’s Single Shot Rifle in 243 WIN.

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Henry Repeating Arms has made quite a name for themselves with their lever-action rifles and shotguns in calibers from the 22 LR all the way up to the 45-70 and 410 bore. But it is their new line of Single Shot break-action rifles and shotguns that have me enamored.

The break-action single-shot is a timeless design. One-shot at a time. Push a lever and the gun breaks open for loading and unloading. Simple, inexpensive, reliable. I spent most of my hunting years toting around an H&R Handi Rifle in 270 Winchester and an old Winchester Model 37 in 16 gauge–both single-shots. that had me in meat on more than one occasion. Break-action guns were one of many good competing designs when I was growing up in the 1990s and early 2000s, but in recent years, the type has fallen by the wayside.

Bolt-action and semi-automatic rifles are about as inexpensive as they have ever been, edging out the thriftiness of the single-shot rifle. This, among other factors, caused the biggest maker of single-shots in the US–H&R–to cease production in 2015. There was still …Read the Rest

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