Which Henry are you using ?

[Major 2]

 
We have a poll for which caliber.
With the numbers of Henry's used as Match guns, I was wondering which Model is the most popular.

[Deadeye Don]

I voted.  I am betting you will find similar percentages here as you would have found back in the day.  Deadeeye.

[Major 2]

That was my take as well ....
I have just ordered a Steel Frame, far less were made but I wanted one for a long time.
So I'll have a Mil. Brass & the Steel frame.

I owned a Brass Framed carbine in the early 80's... Great shooter that still used by it's present owner in CAS.

I liked the Kings Conversion ( less the add-on fore stock ) but so few of these were made before the 66 improved , there is little or no
evidence these were in use beyond  manufacturer samples .

[Cannon Fodder]

  I thought that I had sent this through once,but I guess it didnt make it!

  45lc,steel,case hardened.

  CF             

[Long Johns Wolf]

Have 2 different model Henries 1860 (brass/military + steel/blue), use both alternating for CAS, shoot .44 Colt only. Poll accepts one vote only, however.
Bootsie

[Dusty Morningwood]

Entered mine.  It is a Navy Arms Military model rechambered from 44-40 to 44 Special.  Soon to have carrier modified to shoot 44 Russian.   

[Major 2]

Have 2 different model Henries 1860 (brass/military + steel/blue), use both alternating for CAS, shoot .44 Colt only. Poll accepts one vote only, however.
Bootsie

yeah ! I know I tried to fix that.... 
it only shows my Mil. brass model

[Halfway Creek Charlie]

I was on an Winchester site the other day and there is a kings Conversion Henry on that siteI didn't have a chance to read about it but it had a collection number and I think it told where it came from, but I cannot recall the site now.

[Ottawa Creek Bill]

At present, mine is .45 Long colt.....soon to be .44 Henry Flat

Bill

[Silver Creek Slim]

I have a civilian brass frame. I like the looks of the military better but the civilian was what was available. I know I can convert it but I have other priorities. 

Slim

[Frenchie]

So far, my answer of "Trapper Brass" is still the only one. Btw, I prefer the factory's term, "Special Short Carbine".

[Tommy tornado]

Mine also has a browned barrel instead of blue.

[Driftwood Johnson]

Howdy

Case Hardened steel. 44-40.

Of course none were ever made with steel frames, none were ever made with case hardening, and none were ever made in 44-40.

[Deadeye Don]

Howdy

Case Hardened steel. 44-40.

Of course none were ever made with steel frames, none were ever made with case hardening, and none were ever made in 44-40.

Other than the above you have a historically correct rifle.     I do have to admit it sure is pretty.

[Coffinmaker]

Silly poll only let me vote once.  Civilian Brass, Martial Brass, Trapper Brass, Kings Patent Brass, Civilian Brass (white).  I'm saving up for an "Iron Frame" and my Trapper, is a Trapper @ 16 inches.

Coffinmaker

[Major 2]

Yes Sir , If I knew how to change that I would 

I only listed my Mil. Brass my new Iron Frame is not on the poll 

[Flint]

Driftwood, not sure what you mean by "None were ever made with a steel frame", technically that's true, they started with an iron frame before they changed to bronze, and in the 1860's hardly any weapons were made of steel, even the first SAA Colts had iron frames, not steel frames.  1873 Winchesters were iron framed.  The 1860 Army Colt had steel cylinders and barrels, but the frames were iron.

The Uberti iron frame (which is steel) is not an Italian invention, it is a repro of the early iron framed Henry.

True they were not 44WCF, they were boith 44 Henry RF and the lifter and forward end of the frame of the Henry and 66 was shorter than the repro, the frame and lifter were lengthened in the 1873 to accommodate the 44WCF cartridge.

[Driftwood Johnson]

Flint

I meant just what I said. As you say, the earliest Henrys had iron, not steel frames, they were chambered for 44 RF, not 44-40, and of the illustrations that I've seen of iron frame Henrys, there were all blued. I've never seen one with a color case hardened frame.

The malleabe iron that Colt was using for frames and cylinders in the mid 19th Century was iron, it was not steel. Although steel had been known for many hundreds, maybe thousands of years, the Bessemer process had been developed in England in the 1850s, but wide spread use of relatively cheap steel was still not common. When we say the early Henrys and Winchesters had iron frames, I have to assume they were made of malleable iron.

[Tuolumne Lawman]

Steel frame, case hardened, 44-40 fitted with military model swivels from Uberti before VTI took over parts.

[Ransom Gaer]

Mine is a Civilian Brass Frame.  It's what I could get at the time.  Even if it ain't a military version it's still a great rifle.

Ransom Gaer