hickok45: 1860 Henry Rifle

By Bob Owens | 4:38 PM | January 08, 2014

hickok45 shoots a beautiful Uberti 1860 Henry Rifle reproduction in .45 Colt. It couldn’t have been fun to shoot rapidly in the Civil War, as it didn’t have a wooden forearm for the shooter to grasp. As the barrel heated up, it transferred that heat to the magazine tube and the shooter’s support hand. The Improved Henry 1866 “Yellowboy” (which hickok45 also has on hand) fixed many of the shortcomings of the original rifle, and is the first “modern” lever-action with a forearm and a loading gate.

Bob Owens is the Editor of BearingArms.com. Bob is a graduate of roughly 400 hours of professional firearms training classes, including square range and force-on force work with handguns and carbines. He is a past volunteer instructor with Project Appleseed. He most recently received his Vehicle Close Quarters Combat Instructor certification from Centrifuge Training, and is the author of the short e-book, So You Want to Own a Gun. He can be found on Twitter at bob_owens.