Henry US Survival AR7
- Thread starter olopokram
- Start date
- Location
- Vancouver Island
The takedown/reassembly is quick and brainless. complete disassembly is quick, but occasionally finicky to put humpty dumpty back together again. I did this a number of times just to familiarize myself with it. There's a couple tiny bits that are very easy to lose, and a total fluke to find, believe me! They shoot reliably I find, but the sights are lacking. I put a (very) cheap red dot on one and it was fun and reasonably accurate until the dot went on strike. Super customizable, even a company dedicated to it - AR-7.com. Overall the AR-7 is what its advertised to be. There are more accurate and more fun plinkers and hunting rifles for sure, but its a cheap takedown that weighs very little. Easy to take along, and always better than nothing, for plinking after a long day in the canoe, or filling the stew pot, or just a cheap super light rifle for the kids to shoot.
I recently got one. Goes together easily. Shoots well. Cabela's Canada has the black one in stock. Here's the link:
http://www.cabelas.ca/product/3085/henry-us-survival-ar7-22-semi-auto-rifle
Bearc
http://www.cabelas.ca/product/3085/henry-us-survival-ar7-22-semi-auto-rifle
Bearc
Nice little rifle, take down and assembly is easy, fairly accurate. (just like any, find the ammo and velocity it likes)
I have shot ground hogs with it out to 50 yds. After that, with the ammo I use, accuracy falls of quickly.
I haven't shot standard ammo in it in years. Being from the States, the 60g Aguila SSS is the ticket but not available, here I believe.
Some jamming if mag lips get out of alignment.
I have shot ground hogs with it out to 50 yds. After that, with the ammo I use, accuracy falls of quickly.
I haven't shot standard ammo in it in years. Being from the States, the 60g Aguila SSS is the ticket but not available, here I believe.
Some jamming if mag lips get out of alignment.
I would rather try a ruger take down had an ar 7 and did not care for it. Putting a red dot on defeats the purpose of having an all in one take down. It's a plastic barrel with a steel core. The accuracy sucks with sights let alone trying to look through the stock peep hole. The good things about it are water resistant butt case that apparently floats. It was in a James Bond movie, it will fit anywhere a longer shoe box will. Comes in camo and black, shoots most 22 ammo without troubles. Overall it's just not my style and again only good for plinking or taking rabbit size or bigger since the accuracy is brutal. It also looks goofy as hell, the stock because its also a case is huge and ugly. Hard to find readily available parts like magazines. For the novelty of a take down 22 that can go anywhere sure it's great but if you actually enjoy shooting you will be dissatisfied in my humble opinion
got 1 a lil while ago from cabela's, only put about 100rds through her. easy to assemble, light weight, great for storage, runs good with remington bulk ammo. Stock is pretty wide and bulky in order to fit everything in it, takes some time to get used to. barrel is very thin and light wouldn't wanna run too many rounds through her in rapid fire or battle comps foresure it will heat and warp. My buddy also has one and I've seen him torture that thing with dirt, sand and water, still fired everytime. turned me into a believer and i ordered one the next day. The old models are the ones known to be finicky, since henry has redesigned it no complaints from anyone. stay safe and enjoy
TargetAcquired
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- S. Ontario
There is a small bag that is lashed directly to my canoe, so if something catastrophic happens and all my gear is floating down river away from me and I can't go after it, I'll have something to go on, and and AR-7 is in that bag. Waterproof, floats, and breaks down into a very manageable package - also stores a few loaded mags inside as well. For the price, I figured it was a no-brainer, and while I'm lucky enough to have never 'needed' that bag, I spent a lot of time familiarizing myself with the gun. As stated, it comes apart as easy as falling out of bed, and with a little practise, putting it back together is as easy as climbing back into bed. Squirrel is abundant and delicious, especially if you've got nothing else, or what you do have is just preserved/dried stuff. This gun will shoot up a mess of them very easily. It has a rail integrated into it, so attaching optics is easy enough, but I don;t personally see the point of that. I do, however, have a pressure-operated green-dot laser designator with rings - it wasn't expensive (like $30 on eBay) and has elevatiobn/windage knobs. I put it on this gun and had a lot of fun once I had it sighted in. Not very practical, and I don't see myself ever packing the laser in my bush gear, but for a gun this size it I found it more viable than a scope - critters for the most part either don;t care or just ignore the green dot (I tried to wind up my cat with it, but he doesn't see it too well - red dot is a totally different story), but once in a while it would grab the attention/interest of a squirrel, so taking them out was almost like cheating.
BullionKing
New member
- Location
- Riverview, NB
Hi,
We are dealers, and looking for a dozen AR7's to stock.
Please get in touch.
We are dealers, and looking for a dozen AR7's to stock.
Please get in touch.
I love mine! I find it very accurate - actually more so than I expected after reading countless reviews on it..I spent some time to see where the sights line up shooting paper targets at 10/15/20/25/50 yards etc and after that I'm bang on with it. Sure there may be better .22lr's out there but this little gun is what it is - a quick assembling, compact, accurate little gun able to fit easy in a backpack for plinking or survival situations to bring down some food.
It doesn't cycle sub-sonic ammo as the springs are too tight but I havent had any problems with any reasonable velocity ammo - even 1070fps CCI standard velocity round nose works just fine.
My brother has one to and he loves it. ..his was from Wholesale sports in Calgary and I picked my up while in Edmonton at Cabelas.
It doesn't cycle sub-sonic ammo as the springs are too tight but I havent had any problems with any reasonable velocity ammo - even 1070fps CCI standard velocity round nose works just fine.
My brother has one to and he loves it. ..his was from Wholesale sports in Calgary and I picked my up while in Edmonton at Cabelas.
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At 25yds or less darn right it better shot well! Even a 50yo cooey can shoot good groups at that distance.
It was my first firearm, it got me with the look, history, and small size. I like it. If Im not mistaken the new Henry versions are better quality than whoever was making them for awhile before that... in any case I feel like it was a great buy.
Canadian_Zuk
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Pickering, Ontario
Mine is an older Ducks Unlimited one, only 2 mags and no orange plastic. It runs like a top, never fails to feed, fire or extract. I did remove one action spring years ago so it would cycle low velocity ammo reliably. Many, many thousands of rounds through it, I have had to clean the chamber face up twice due to firing pin peeing (no last round hold open), but that is minor and expected after hundreds of accidental dry firings. All parts still original, still laying under the back seat where it just belongs.
This is a never to be sold gun for me. I paid $200 new for it more than 10 years ago and I'm sure I could sell it for more than I paid for it, even in its well loved condition.
This is a never to be sold gun for me. I paid $200 new for it more than 10 years ago and I'm sure I could sell it for more than I paid for it, even in its well loved condition.
I have one. It's ridiculously light, ugly as heck, comfortable to shoulder, reliable, and shoots well, despite a trigger that blows goats.
Kinda neat really. It shows how much you can do with very little.
Kinda neat really. It shows how much you can do with very little.
Wow. You guys' experience so does not match mine.
Charter Arms, AR7, bought new and skimped and saved to make the payments while it was on layaway.
What a disappointment that was. Sold it a few months later. I have sold very very few of the guns that I bought for myself.
Took a $90 hit from new, not counting the replacement mag that I bought for it to replace the lost one (the mag would drop, but not drop free if the release was brushed, then the mag would bail at some point afterwards). Never regretted seeing it go.
Barrel leaded like nobodies business. Altogether a poor POS from the box. Felt and handled like something out of a Disney cartoon too.
Yeah. It floats. Big hairy deal! A floating rifle on a stream is one you will like never see again.
It was too bulky by a long shot, for what it was. IMO they missed the boat when they did not design in space for a box or two of ammo, too.
Cheers
Trev
Charter Arms, AR7, bought new and skimped and saved to make the payments while it was on layaway.
What a disappointment that was. Sold it a few months later. I have sold very very few of the guns that I bought for myself.
Took a $90 hit from new, not counting the replacement mag that I bought for it to replace the lost one (the mag would drop, but not drop free if the release was brushed, then the mag would bail at some point afterwards). Never regretted seeing it go.
Barrel leaded like nobodies business. Altogether a poor POS from the box. Felt and handled like something out of a Disney cartoon too.
Yeah. It floats. Big hairy deal! A floating rifle on a stream is one you will like never see again.
It was too bulky by a long shot, for what it was. IMO they missed the boat when they did not design in space for a box or two of ammo, too.
Cheers
Trev
- Location
- Vancouver Island
I poured as many loose rounds into one as I could. Cant remember how many that amounted to, but pretty sure it was 50 or more. With the 24 in 3 mags, its a reasonable amount.
