Henry Homesteader
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as soon as it black in color, it will be ban! and you thougth Justin was gone..lolId pull the trigger if they made a TD version..hoping its coming...and or they dont get banned
buy what you want..
.and keep it, you never know when your going to need it!
Hey Gatehouse, can you tell me if the accuracy of your Henry Homesteaders are better than the target pics that have been posted?......
Okay, here is the best you are going to get for an accuracy test from me.:
I swapped out a red dot on one of the Henrys today so I had to zero. So I painted a big steel target at 50 M. I zeroed and shot from standing with my elbows on a table, no bench rest or tripod set up. I shot once and it was good for elevation but way left, so I gave the red dot a crank and shot again. Ok, pretty close to center, just one minor adjustment and it hit dead center. To verify I aimed at the existing bullet splash and sent 5 more rounds at it and they all landed pretty much on top of each other. Keep in mind there was bullet splash on the paint so it wasn't nice clean holes like on paper, but it was accurate enough for my purposes. Switched to 100 M and could hit the 6 and 8" steel there, too.
So that's my accuracy evaluation. Still no plans for a scope
- Location
- pallisers triangle
thats prity much how my accuracy tests go to.Okay, here is the best you are going to get for an accuracy test from me.:
I swapped out a red dot on one of the Henrys today so I had to zero. So I painted a big steel target at 50 M. I zeroed and shot from standing with my elbows on a table, no bench rest or tripod set up. I shot once and it was good for elevation but way left, so I gave the red dot a crank and shot again. Ok, pretty close to center, just one minor adjustment and it hit dead center. To verify I aimed at the existing bullet splash and sent 5 more rounds at it and they all landed pretty much on top of each other. Keep in mind there was bullet splash on the paint so it wasn't nice clean holes like on paper, but it was accurate enough for my purposes. Switched to 100 M and could hit the 6 and 8" steel there, too.
So that's my accuracy evaluation. Still no plans for a scope
Now I am up to about 600 rounds each gun so a few more thoughts.
I don't know why they didn't thread the muzzle on the Canadian versions like the USA versions. Maybe they didn't think anyone would want that as we can't have silencers. But someone might want a flash hider or brake (Doesn't really matter to me as I wasn't going to attach a muzzle device anyway)
The front sight must have been attached by a 6 year old girl because both of mine almost fell off. I removed the tiny screw and secured with loctite.
The charging handle is a typical curved style charging handle and the part that inserts into the bolt is apiece of flat steel with two holes in it that supposedly lock in with a detent ball/spring system. You can place the handle on either side. It seems like a nice simple system but the detents also have the strength of a 6 year old girl as a number of times I've laid the rifle down on a table (charging handle down) and when I pick it up the charging handle has just fallen out. I had the handles attached to the right (ejection port) side but I swapped to the left side to see if it's any better.
As mentioned before, the firing pin seems weak as I get lots of light strikes using ammo that has functioned reliably in Glocks, CZ shadow 1, 2, Ruger 9mm carbines and a few others. But that's a specific ammo problem as I tired some Federal aluminum 115gr and Federal 124gr brass case and they fire fine. Reloads with CCI primers work fine too but the same load with ginex primers have 10-15% light strikes.
Not including a rail in the box is lame.
They have magazine adapters for Henry mags, 320 mags and Glock mags. (Glock mag was included in the box) I suppose this is versatile but I wonder if it's just wasted money and effort. Ruger carbines also do the same but IIRC the Ruger mags also fit in some of the Ruger pistols whereas I don't think the Henry mags fit anywhere else. To me it would make more sense to just design the rifle for Glock mags right from the start. Then they don't have to R&D and supply theoir own mags when Glock mags are so ubiquitous. I just think of all the non AR15 rifles that take AR magazines and how convenient it is- even Henry is introducing a lever action that uses AR mags. I would much rather have a rail than 2 Henry mags I will likely never use.
The rifle seems heavier than it needs to be and it's a bit front heavy due to the weight up front. Not the end of the world. The fore end is a little boxy but the wood overall has nice enough grain and it gives the rifle has that old school look.
If I was going to just use iron sights I would prefer a rear receiver mounted aperture sight but the barrel mounted sight works fine, much better than a v shaped rear sight. It does the job just fine.
If we didn't have our silly gun bans and I wanted a PCC would I buy a Henry? Only if I was really keen on the wood stock, non tactical traditional look. I don't hate the Homesteader, I actually quite like them and find the look pretty appealing. I just think there are other PCCs that offer more for the same price.
I don't know why they didn't thread the muzzle on the Canadian versions like the USA versions. Maybe they didn't think anyone would want that as we can't have silencers. But someone might want a flash hider or brake (Doesn't really matter to me as I wasn't going to attach a muzzle device anyway)
The front sight must have been attached by a 6 year old girl because both of mine almost fell off. I removed the tiny screw and secured with loctite.
The charging handle is a typical curved style charging handle and the part that inserts into the bolt is apiece of flat steel with two holes in it that supposedly lock in with a detent ball/spring system. You can place the handle on either side. It seems like a nice simple system but the detents also have the strength of a 6 year old girl as a number of times I've laid the rifle down on a table (charging handle down) and when I pick it up the charging handle has just fallen out. I had the handles attached to the right (ejection port) side but I swapped to the left side to see if it's any better.
As mentioned before, the firing pin seems weak as I get lots of light strikes using ammo that has functioned reliably in Glocks, CZ shadow 1, 2, Ruger 9mm carbines and a few others. But that's a specific ammo problem as I tired some Federal aluminum 115gr and Federal 124gr brass case and they fire fine. Reloads with CCI primers work fine too but the same load with ginex primers have 10-15% light strikes.
Not including a rail in the box is lame.
They have magazine adapters for Henry mags, 320 mags and Glock mags. (Glock mag was included in the box) I suppose this is versatile but I wonder if it's just wasted money and effort. Ruger carbines also do the same but IIRC the Ruger mags also fit in some of the Ruger pistols whereas I don't think the Henry mags fit anywhere else. To me it would make more sense to just design the rifle for Glock mags right from the start. Then they don't have to R&D and supply theoir own mags when Glock mags are so ubiquitous. I just think of all the non AR15 rifles that take AR magazines and how convenient it is- even Henry is introducing a lever action that uses AR mags. I would much rather have a rail than 2 Henry mags I will likely never use.
The rifle seems heavier than it needs to be and it's a bit front heavy due to the weight up front. Not the end of the world. The fore end is a little boxy but the wood overall has nice enough grain and it gives the rifle has that old school look.
If I was going to just use iron sights I would prefer a rear receiver mounted aperture sight but the barrel mounted sight works fine, much better than a v shaped rear sight. It does the job just fine.
If we didn't have our silly gun bans and I wanted a PCC would I buy a Henry? Only if I was really keen on the wood stock, non tactical traditional look. I don't hate the Homesteader, I actually quite like them and find the look pretty appealing. I just think there are other PCCs that offer more for the same price.
Thunderhog
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- East Kootneys
Sounds reasonable to me.......Okay, here is the best you are going to get for an accuracy test from me.:
I swapped out a red dot on one of the Henrys today so I had to zero. So I painted a big steel target at 50 M. I zeroed and shot from standing with my elbows on a table, no bench rest or tripod set up. I shot once and it was good for elevation but way left, so I gave the red dot a crank and shot again. Ok, pretty close to center, just one minor adjustment and it hit dead center. To verify I aimed at the existing bullet splash and sent 5 more rounds at it and they all landed pretty much on top of each other. Keep in mind there was bullet splash on the paint so it wasn't nice clean holes like on paper, but it was accurate enough for my purposes. Switched to 100 M and could hit the 6 and 8" steel there, too.
So that's my accuracy evaluation. Still no plans for a scope
Cagemaster
Member
- Location
- Victoria, B.C.
I was looking at this handguard on Midwest Industries' site, and the installation instructions said "*It is recommended these parts are installed by a qualified gunsmith."If you want to give yoru Homesteader that post apocalyptic tacticool look...
Then I watched this video. I'm pretty useless with gunsmithing / mechanical aptitude. I think I'd be OK on my one with this, LOL. Thanks for posting.
From what I can gather seeing malfunctions of this gun, the action bars or linkages could be introducing extra binding force from the bolt not pulling the other half of the reciprocating weight on the same level, on top of the sliding frictions of the bars themselves and two sliding weights (bolt 1 & bolt 2).If you want to give yoru Homesteader that post apocalyptic tacticool look...
Putting that handguard on would be akin to exposing the bolt body to the elements.
They appear to be cast aluminium and are anything but cheap, they feel like great quality on both of my homesteaders
