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ovenpaa wrote:Perfect Zombie guns as well, now if only I could find such a thing chambered in 30-30

Nah, .303 please. I've always fancied one of those Winchesters chambered for 7.62x54R.

ovenpaa wrote:Perfect Zombie guns as well, now if only I could find such a thing chambered in 30-30

Here you go, http://www.henryrepeating.com/rifle-3030.cfm

I have been after one of these lovely rifles for a while. I almost bought one at the Shooting Show but as I had spent a fair amount of my hard earned already I thought I would be pushing my luck with she who must be obeyed. I have an open .357 slot on my FAC so my search continues. I Handled one after having a look at a rossi puma the difference was night and day.... As for an ideal zombie gun yes they would be though I think a Ross Rifle M10(MKIII) would be an awesome zombie slayer, Straight pull .303 :)

Well, I took it to the range and it operated perfectly:


The action is extremely smooth and can be operated pretty quickly:


Very pleased! I was firing the 156gn Magtech cowboy .357 loads and the weight of the gun keeps the felt recoil low. I may enter the advancing target comp. with it at Bisley in August.

Looks good, yet another for the never ending list..

Wow very nice indeed. Time to renew my search me thinks....

dromia wrote:I don't know why the Henry's aren't more popular especially with Marlins having gone all to hell with Remingtons "improvements" and the price of second hand ones having gone through the roof.

They are fine rifles with the smoothest action of all the underlevers save the Savage 1899, which has to be the finest underlever ever made.

Thanks to the OP and also the above comment. I'm after one and didn't even know 'Henry' existed as my club only has Winchesters and Rossis.

Savage 1899 ? Goes to google...

One of our club members was after an under lever and was looking at getting a used Marlin of dubious origin but has ordered a new Henry instead :)

phaedra1106 wrote:One of our club members was after an under lever and was looking at getting a used Marlin of dubious origin but has ordered a new Henry instead :)

Please let me know how he gets on.