Henry honesty??

[Jerry45]

I don't care if a company has been bought and sold over the years. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Smith and Wesson today the same company as it was a hundred years ago?

Actually it's not. S&W sold us down the river to to the Klinkton administration AWB bunch. Many of us stopped doing business with them. The new owners denounced to old and promised to be more 2nd. Amendment friendly. We show our support by doing business with them. I wouldn't call that the SAME company.

Sheesh.

We really are a nation of bungholes if that irritates you. Maybe thereoughttabealaw!

Maybe you should spend that irritation on little things such as the new AWB, Congress spending trillions of dollars beyond its income, and the President ordering the murder of American citizens without jury trial. It's these little things, such as advertising, that caused the Founders to suffer through nearly a decade of war with a world power. Nah...gun ads are far more important.

I just sent an E-mail to my local Whole Foods and a letter the CEO because of a No Firearms sign that has just been posted. I'm in constant contact with my Congressmen/Congresswoman. Some of us can do more than one thing at a time. Maybe others should give it a try.

 

[shafter]

Sheesh.

We really are a nation of bungholes if that irritates you. Maybe thereoughttabealaw!

Maybe you should spend that irritation on little things such as the new AWB, Congress spending trillions of dollars beyond its income, and the President ordering the murder of American citizens without jury trial. It's these little things, such as advertising, that caused the Founders to suffer through nearly a decade of war with a world power. Nah...gun ads are far more important.

I'd call a few cents tax on tea that no one made the Founders buy to be pretty trivial but that's besides the point. I'm not telling anyone to stop doing business with Henry. I merely wanted to know if I was the only one that is irked by Henry's false marketing. All of the items you mentioned above bother me a great deal but I'm capable of being irked by big and small things alike.

Originally Posted by shafter
I don't care if a company has been bought and sold over the years. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Smith and Wesson today the same company as it was a hundred years ago?

Actually it's not. S&W sold us down the river to to the Klinkton administration AWB bunch. Many of us stopped doing business with them. The new owners denounced to old and promised to be more 2nd. Amendment friendly. We show our support by doing business with them. I wouldn't call that the SAME company.

I won't argue on being sold to the Clinton administration but Smith and Wesson as a company is basically the same company it used to be. To market products on their long history really isn't the same as what Henry is doing.

 

[JohnKSa]

...Zamak which has a higher tensile strength than steel.

As mentioned, the zamak receiver cover is not a stressed part, so its strength is not an issue.

However, the tensile strength of zamak is not higher than that of steel.

There are a number of zamak alloys, with tensile strengths ranging from 268MPa to 397MPa. Zamak 5 tensile strength is 331MPa.

Low-carbon mild steel alloys (on the very low end of steels in terms of tensile strength) will have tensile strengths in the range of 370MPa to 410MPa.

The steels typically used in firearms have tensile strengths in the range of 590MPa to 830MPa.

In other words, the strongest zamak alloy can match or exceed the strength of the weakest steels but can not begin to approach the tensile strength of a good quality steel. The tensile strength of zamak 5 doesn't even match the weakest steels.

 

[mr.t7024]

Scorch said it all and then some! I have two Henry's one a 17HMR Goldenboy and one Hoo1, the quality and wood to metal fit is awesome & accuracy is deeeeelightful!

BTW anyone who listens to MR. Imperato's commercials knows it is not the same company from the 1860's.

Do not forget,Winchester is not the Winchester of old! Cliff

 

[Revolver1]

Henry rifles, you get what you pay for!

 

[Hawg]

Henry rifles, you get what you pay for!

I cant speak for the big bores but I wouldn't trade my Golden Boy for a Browning, Winchester or even a Marlin.