Rossi Rifleman

I have been thinking of adding another Rossi to my safe in .45lc. For some reason, my mind diverted to another path and I decided to pick up a Henry .22 mag and I asked my lgs to get me one. I went down this morning to pick it up and he was unboxing a Winchester 44-40 with a 24" octagonal brl. It was a thing of beauty in my eyes and I asked him to put it in layaway for me. It may be made by Miroku but it is smooth as glass and the wood was very nice. I need to sell some sheep/goats so I can go rescue it.

Here is a couple of pics of the Henry and the Winchester...neither one very good, but, it's what I have at the moment

Mighty fine looking. Always good to see someone else buying rifles!

Refusing to let me reply with the Henry picture but they all look alike anyway

If it had been a .45 or such, I might have been able to resist..but, I wanted an original caliber and it was just so beautiful laying there on the counter. I'm old and I figure I needed it....

Strawdawg wrote:Refusing to let me reply with the Henry picture but they all look alike anyway

That would mean you need to resize it. Might me missing that message.

I did...said it needed to be under 240 kb. the first one went with no problem so I am not sure why it has to be that small...I just cropped it...let's see

Looks like the crop did it

It does shoot nicely...the Henry

That is down right a pretty rifle!

It must be old age, but, I have not seen too many lever actions that don't look good

I have a fondness for 22 mags. Thirty plus years ago I owned an Ithaca single shot lever gun in 22mag. Many a soy bean chopping groundhog lost his appetite do to that little rifle. It was my first lever gun. The day I walk into Walmart and see .22 mag shells on the shelf is the day I go to my LGS and order a Henry. I'm not holding my breath.

They are hard to find. I bought 400 from my lgs the other day.

One day I got an email from midway that they had some in stock. One minute after the postmark on the email, I had them in my cart and when I hit pay for them, they disappeared from the cart-all gone. One minute!