Henry Garden Gun Smoothbore .22 Just Arrived

Thunderhog said:
You are obviously a better turkey hunter than I am Caramel. Getting 20-30 feet from a turkey is not that easy. Unless of course you could hunt in Ft. Steele RV Park here near Cranbrook.Laugh2
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For the last 3 years i have been turkey hunting exclusively with my Ravin (crossbow ).

All of my toms are killed between 3 and 10 yards. I wonder how much energy each number 12 pellet carry and a what distance, could be surprising.
 
Here is a Video of the Shotgun patterning. For use on Mice, Pigeon's, Wasps Etc... Rifling makes #12shot basically useless because you can't get close enough before critters scurry away.
I personally would not use it for Rabbits or similar sized animals but smaller pests well this would be perfect. I would have loved one of these 20yrs ago on the farm instead of having to use a Ruger Airhawk single shot air rifle to avoid shooting throgh roofs....i could have taken out whole flocks of pigeons with one mag tube load.

Looks like i'll be ordering another Henry.

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caramel said:
For the last 3 years i have been turkey hunting exclusively with my Ravin (crossbow ).

All of my toms are killed between 3 and 10 yards. I wonder how much energy each number 12 pellet carry and a what distance, could be surprising.
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That is awesome Caramel, yeup your definitely a better turkey hunter than me.

My wife and I also shoot a Ravin Crossbow, R26.

At 3-5 yards, I can see this Henry penetrating a Tom's head. We want pics when you do my friend.

Shoot, now I want one of these gorgeous Henry Garden Guns, damn you Caramel!.........:):HFU:
 
LOL at turkey hunting with this thing.

It does my red squirrels in nicely. I've got them on the run on the eaves trough about to make it to the latest opening they've made for me to fix. The shot doesn't hurt the house but puts a stop to their tyranny.

I've shot some regular rounds out of my smooth bore (an old Anschutz single shot bolt action) and like someone else here said the accuracy isn't too bad. I've hit squirrels regularly with Quiet-22's from this gun too. Overall it's been very useful to me for pest control. I'm sure the Henry would just be even better, especially being a repeater.
 
45CAT said:
You hunt in a grocery store ? ��
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would be good for the back room at many grocery stores to trim the often unspoken rodent populations. I will be using this to shoot wasp nest off my house this summer and whatever else I can find.

7055steved said:
LOL at turkey hunting with this thing.

It does my red squirrels in nicely. I've got them on the run on the eaves trough about to make it to the latest opening they've made for me to fix. The shot doesn't hurt the house but puts a stop to their tyranny.
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Interesting that its effective on squirls. Does it actually kill them outright? one issue I have always had with my 455fps air rifle is that it may drop pigeons from barn rafters they are often alive when they hit the ground. I always had to carry an ice scraper with me to finish of the odd one that was still blinking. It would be nice if I didn't have to decap them while they blinked at me.
 
philhut said:
would be good for the back room at many grocery stores to trim the often unspoken rodent populations. I will be using this to shoot wasp nest off my house this summer and whatever else I can find.



Interesting that its effective on squirls. Does it actually kill them outright? one issue I have always had with my 455fps air rifle is that it may drop pigeons from barn rafters they are often alive when they hit the ground. I always had to carry an ice scraper with me to finish of the odd one that was still blinking. It would be nice if I didn't have to decap them while they blinked at me.
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Wasp nest is the first thing i thought before buying the GG.:)

Number 12 shot is .053mm dia.

Also the 22 lr shotshell carry 68 pounds of energy tru 151 pellets.

That is .45 pound of energy per pellets.
Any small critters hit with 5 or more pellets within 30 feets shoud die fast.
 
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id love to have one but can't see my self paying that kind of price for a smooth bore .22 henry has the msrp above what their base lever action cost. you can get one of them little 9mm rimfire garden guns much cheaper and it will be much more effective or pick up a cheap .22 single shot and have it bored smooth.

the bore for .22 shot is supposed to be what the minimum bore diameter of a .22lr rifle is supposed to be I think something like .217" or .218" so it should be cheaper considering all they have to do is bore the barrel and not rifle it leaving a step out of the production process and in turn it cost them less
 
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philhut said:
Interesting that its effective on squirls. Does it actually kill them outright? one issue I have always had with my 455fps air rifle is that it may drop pigeons from barn rafters they are often alive when they hit the ground. I always had to carry an ice scraper with me to finish of the odd one that was still blinking. It would be nice if I didn't have to decap them while they blinked at me.
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It does kill them just fine actually! You have to be reasonable with your range obviously, but 10 yards or less is a sure thing on red squirrels. I haven't tried out to 15 yards yet other than on paper which looked promising, but I don't care for having to finish off anything afterwards either.
 
Thanks TGS!!!!! Ordered yesterday afternoon and in my hands less than 24 hours later.

Like all Henrys - really nice. Wood looks amazing. Can’t wait to shoot it. Going to get some ammo right now.
 
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