Benjamin Tyler Henry was not the father of lever-action rifles, but his development of a .44-caliber cartridge—and the lever gun he built to shoot it—did change the platform forever. Only 14,000 of ...

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We have a winner! It is a Henry Big Boy Steel lever-action rifle, a product that I previously considered to be second rate from a company that I held in low regard. A disclaimer is in order, but first ...

The lever action rifle is truly an American icon, with the lever action concept first beginning in 1848 in the form of the “Volition Repeating Rifle.” Under new owners Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson, ...

The New Original Henry Rifle is a line-for-line reproduction of the first practical repeating rifle patented by Benjamin Tyler Henry in 1860, except using the more modern .44-40 WCF caliber, and the ...

Rice Lake – As more than 600,000 hunters strolled into the woods for the opener of the annual gun-deer season this weekend in Wisconsin, quite a few have rifles made in Wisconsin slung over their ...

Way back in 1860, a gentleman named Benjamin Tyler Henry is credited with inventing The Henry Rifle: The first repeating, lever-action rifle. The Civil War was on-going and such a firearm was a huge ...

Like most of us, I don’t have $200,000 to spend on a rifle, at least not at the moment, not even an original Henry rifle made by the New Haven Arms Company. I’ll just have to settle for admiring one ...