Subj : Re: Buy one, get one
To   : Moondog
From : Weatherman
Date : Mon Sep 28 2020 01:53 am

-=> Moondog wrote to Weatherman <=-

 >
 > Well, if people were regularly shooting helicopters out of the sky with AR7'
 > then I'd imagine they'd have been flying off the shelves.  As it is, I doubt
 > they've ever been worth more than a couple of hundred dollars.  I know they
 > retail for more than that, but to me, I wouldn't pay more than two bills.
 > I've got two of them, in fact, one is a Charter Arms, the other is a more
 > current Henry model.  Paid $100 for the Charter, and $150 for the Henry.  I
 > find them to be very good backpacking, boating, camper guns, but I also have
 > Sub-2000 in 9mm (although I really would have preferred .40 SW) and I find
 > that the more I use that, the more I appreciate it for the roles listed abov
 > Of course, I could just keep one on the boat, keep one in the camper and use
 > one when hiking.  Aside from that, I usually have a pistol or revolver with
 > as well so it's not as if I really NEED a small-caliber or pistol caliber
 > carbine with me....
 >
 >                                                       Regards,
 >                                                 -==*>Weatherman<*==-
 >
 Mo> I also own two AR-7's.  One is a Survival Arms model from the mid
 Mo> 1990's and the other was an early 2000's Henry with the 5/8" dovetail
 Mo> for rimfire scopes.  The Survival Arms model is a tack driver for
 Mo> simple gun, and the Henry needs a larger variety of ammo through it to
 Mo> find a sweet spot load. One nice thing about it is it eats the crappy
 Mo> Remington Thunderbolt ammo that makes my Marlins and Rugers puke.
 Mo> Downside they don't like the bulk box Federal with truncated bullets.
 Mo> Henry's lever guns are way more solid designs with great finish on the
 Mo> wood and metal.
 
 You're looking at the difference between a $250 (retail) breakdown into a
water-resistant, floating stock, bare-bones survival rifle and a well-crafted
$320 and up rifle intended to bring back the nostalgia and romance of a
long-gone era.  We happen to have no fewer than six Henry tribute .22 rifles
(at an average of $800 per) and a .44 Special Mare's Leg.  My wife has a soft
spot in her heart for those Henry tributes, and as long as I don't throw a fit
when she buys them, she doesn't throw much of a fit when I buy something that I
like.

 Mo> I have a Rossi gallery gun, a copy of a Winchester 62 (I think.) That's
 Mo> a fun little pump, like you'd imagine at the old style carnivals
 Mo> shooting shorts and cb caps.  I haven't tried shorts since the price
 Mo> for them is more than for .22 LR.  They lengthened the loading elevator
 Mo> thing to make LR easier to load, so it might not work well with shorts.
 Mo>  The wood looks like a dark Brazi llian rosewood, however the sanding
 Mo> and finish job is horrible.

I remember shooting those old pump action .22's at an amusement park in my home
town.  Have no idea what they might have been, Remington, Winchester, and
others made them.  Was the very first gun I shot, and had a blast doing it.  As
I remember it, they had tubes of .22 shorts sitting there at the arcade, and
they just slid the rounds into the magazine from the tube.  Hell, I can't even
remember what it cost to shoot, maybe a buck and a half, if that.  I must have
been all of 11 or 12 years old.  I'll not speak about the quality of
Taurus/Rossi arms.  I happen to like their metallurgy and own a few examples of
their work.  While they may not be able to create a passable replica of a
Winchester pump, I happen to think their more modern designes are quite
acceptable...

Have a grand day....


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