Henry Golden Boy .22 Magnum
Model: H004M
Henry Golden Boy .22 Magnum
Model: H004M
Full Specifications
About This Firearm
The Henry Golden Boy is a walnut-stocked lever-action .22 Magnum built for small game and plinking over iron sights. It has an MSRP of $770. Its receiver carries Henry's Brasslite finish and the barrel is blued octagon steel, which is where the rifle's look and much of its 6.75 lbs come from.
It comes sighted. The front is a brass bead and the rear a fully adjustable semi-buckhorn with a diamond insert. Twelve rounds load into the tube under the barrel. The receiver is drilled and tapped, and Henry lists a Golden Boy cantilever mount as the scope mount for the model. Length of pull is 14.0 inches, which is long for a rimfire, and nothing in the walnut adjusts.
If you're cross-shopping, the Rossi Rio Bravo has an MSRP of $379.99 and holds the same twelve rounds at 5.17 lbs, with a beechwood stock, an aluminum frame and no provision for a scope. The .22 LR Golden Boy has an MSRP of $670 and is this rifle in the cheaper cartridge, holding sixteen rounds instead of twelve because the cases are shorter. Henry gives the rifle a lifetime warranty and the company's own satisfaction guarantee.
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Strengths & Limitations
- The safety is a quarter-cock notch on the hammer, so there is no extra lever to find and nothing to forget to switch off.
- The octagon barrel gives the fore-end flats that sit still on a bag or a rail.
- A brass buttplate caps the walnut, so the butt takes the knocks instead of the wood.
- Filling the tube is a one-round-at-a-time job, and a Golden Boy's tube runs most of the barrel's length.
- A scope needs Henry's own cantilever mount, so the glass sits forward of the receiver and the choice of rings is short.
- Unloading means working the rounds back out of the tube port or cycling them through the action, since there is no magazine to drop out.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is the receiver real brass?
Henry names both the material and the finish Brasslite, so treat it as a brass-coloured receiver and not solid brass.
Which chamberings is the Golden Boy made in?
Three. The .22 S/L/LR version, this .22 Magnum, and a .17 HMR, each with a different tube capacity.
Where does the magazine tube load?
Through a port near the muzzle end of the tube. There is no side gate at the receiver on this model.
