Looking for thoughts on the Henry Mares Leg .22

Tinner4 said:
I'll put in another vote for the Frontier. My go to plinker and man is she classy. Everyone who has shot it has commented on how nicely it handles and how fun it is to shoot.


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That's exactly it really, I keep seeing these tactical looking .22's and they never look like something I want, but the level action is absolutely classy looking. OK I'm settled I think, Henry Frontier. Though possible with the bigger loop.
 
Not every gun has to have a deadly serious function; some of my guns (a lot of them, actually...) fulfill their purpose if they're fun to shoot and they make me smile. A Mare's Leg does that in spades. I've had a Rossi and a Chiappa, both in .44mag, and I'm toying with the idea of getting a .22 Henry now.

Can anyone tell me how much plastic is used on these guns? Aside from the buttplate, are there other plastic bits? Sights, barrel band, trigger, or...?
 
jjohnwm said:
Not every gun has to have a deadly serious function; some of my guns (a lot of them, actually...) fulfill their purpose if they're fun to shoot and they make me smile. A Mare's Leg does that in spades. I've had a Rossi and a Chiappa, both in .44mag, and I'm toying with the idea of getting a .22 Henry now.

Can anyone tell me how much plastic is used on these guns? Aside from the buttplate, are there other plastic bits? Sights, barrel band, trigger, or...?
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I can only speak of the Henry H001T and H012M... but as far as I can see, the only plastic I found is the butt plate and the magazine's spring plunger. Front sight is brass bead set in metal, barrel band is Zamak5, trigger is metal, etc.
 
The front barrel band is plastic but can be replaced.
A guy in Canada can easily and legally extend the butt stock of a mare's leg to allow it to shoulder if needed. With a .22lr given the low recoil a person can cheek weld a henry mare's leg .22lr and get a bit more stability for aiming, yet not run the risk of getting slammed by the recoiling gun due to lack of shoulder support.
Some people also just replace the mare's leg stock with a full length stock.
 
base model Henry Lever action is on sale at Wholesale sports for $344 CANADIAN!

i had a $20 discount card from my last purchase so i went and picked one up.
cant beat $320 bucks for a brand new Henry Lever action.
even if lever's aren't my favorite gun i couldn't pass that up!!!
 
I had a Rossi 357 and a Henry 22 and the Henry was miles above in quality. The action was smoother than warm butter. People talk about full sized stocks which may be practical but diminish the novelty factor of a sub 26" non-restricted which in my opinion is what it's all about. Mine was a blast to shoot, accurate enough to knock beer cans off the fence in rapid fire and cheap to feed. I liked spin-cocking mine too. For $300-400 on the EE you can't go wrong. Sold mine when I ran out of space and money but would pick up another if the price was right and I was flush. I say go for it.
 
I really like the looks of the Mares Leg style guns, but only to get a super compact carbine out of, at the end of the day. Order a full size stock and butt plate for it at time of purchase, and it will be in the mail about the time the novelty of trying to shoot it without the benefit of shoulder support, wears off.

The sawed off stock on those looks like a gawd-awful kids toy to me.

It'd be a pretty strange ol' world, if we all liked the same thing though! :)

Cheers
Trev
 
I would love to have one of these in 22wmr. Anyone have experience with one? In NB we have to use under 23 cal most of the year. the Tavor has quite a bark and being what it is DNR and RCMP here usually arrest or seize guns when caught in the woods here with nasty looking rifles (even if legal). It seems to be the policy here.

Moe
 


I put a normal butt stock on it, (with a crescent butt plate for a more "cowboy" look).

Then a flip up tang sight so I could get a longer sight radius to help accuracy, (yet looked "cowboy").
 
soooooooooooo impressed with the fit and finish on these Henry Lever Actions.

got mine yesterday in the mail and just love the feel of it, the wood is like butter and the blueing is so deep and rich.
not regretting investing $320 into this for yet another present to myself this year, haha!

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