Anyone have experience with a Henry mare's leg in 44 mag?

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Just got it while I was out of town, not until I was all the way back home and playing with it, did I realize: No half #### safety, it clicks right where it it supposed to, but no half #### safety engages, is there one?
 
I have one of the .22lr's and at first I thought there was no half #### position because the hammer is so low when it's on safe that I thought it was down all the way.....it wasn't.
Re-cocking the hammer and holding the trigger as the hammer lowered lets the hammer fall the entire way to the firing pin.
 
My Henry 30-30 has a transfer bar safety instead of a traditional half ####, much like you see on some of the newer break action single shot guns. Take a peek on the inside face of the hammer, it's more of a hollow little track and doesn't actually contact the firing pin. When you pull the trigger, a little bar slides up the inside face to allow the gun to fire. It's a fairly safe setup as far as live rounds in the chamber goes.....I still wouldn't point it anywhere I didn't want to shoot.
 
I have allways love how well Henry arms makes their products but I wish they would build a Mare's leg around a variant of the 1892/3 with a trapdoor feed port and a ported barrel. More or less a Rossi Ranch Hand only better and make the half #### safty more pernonced then what it is.
 
I could have just read the manual :D though I was busy for a bit getting to know it, its always hard for me to read the manual first , thanks for the replies though, will help anyone else thinking of buying one in the future how awesome the safety actually is.

Edit: I was able to shoot it too, way less kick with that fat octagon barrel on it , great little shooter!
 
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Transfer bars work very well... until they don't... I have changed a couple... I put a full butt stock on my Mare's Leg... great little, compact carbine now... accuracy is not good with the ML stock, even laid across the forearm (the gun's forearm on your forearm, that is).
 
Push-pull is the only way to hold and aim with a .44 mare's leg.... same as a PGO 12 gauge.
My Rossi .44mag with improved sights is minute of can out to around 40 yards and minute of chest sized plate steel out to 100yards.....not bad in my opinion.
 
Can-down said:
Push-pull is the only way to hold and aim with a .44 mare's leg.... same as a PGO 12 gauge.
My Rossi .44mag with improved sights is minute of can out to around 40 yards and minute of chest sized plate steel out to 100 yards.....not bad in my opinion.
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Not bad on cans and pie plates... I expect a lot better before I will take aim on something living... with the full buttstock it is much, much better.
 
Just curious but what did you expect? Handgun accuracy is what I expected and that's pretty much what I get.

Most people shoot shouldered firearms better then handguns so the increase in achieved accuracy with a full butt stock is not a surprise and easily accomplished for Canadians.
 
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