The 1860 Henry rifle
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Here is my impression of the Henry rifle with some historical background, target shooting, and of course some fun. This is one of the very first repeating rifles firing a metallic cartridge so it really plays an important part in firearms history.
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"Little Tomcat (Instrumental Version)" by Josh Woodward (www.joshwoodwar...)
"MINSTREL" by Jason Shaw (audionautix.com...)
This rifle changed everything. In a time of single shot rifles this was space age stuff.
True
Beautiful rifle. I prefer the brass to steel also. Thanks for sharing.
I do to, but it gets scratched and dinged easy because it's so soft compared to steel
@@josephstalin6913 0000 steel wool very lightly
It looks prettier but the one I used was old and the breech had stretched and I got a few misfires because of it :(
This channel is AWESOME! Strange I haven't discovered it earlier as well. Also very nice to see a fellow European making an awesome gun channel, especially with the horrible situation we have in Europe at the moment...
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with this excellent video. My young sons share your passion for Civil War history and all things 19th century; they have been enjoying your work immensely!
The single repeating arm known to be in the field the first day at Gettysburg was Buford’s Henry, which he had bought privately.
I Thought this was done by a Professional Documentary Company
then I realized you Made this!
this is Awesome!
5:45 thought one went off right as he cautioned it
Fighting the Texas Brigade....man, were you in trouble! Then you cheated and got the Henry...:-)
My 62 year old great-great-grandpa 5th Sergeant Maxey McCormick was mortally wounded at Sharpsburg/Antietam in the 5th Texas Infantry. Fortunately he had "bred" before going off to war... All my other Confederate Ancestors were great-great grandpa's but Maxey must have been a very tough old bird. I'm sixty and I can barely walk around the house and he could march for miles and miles every day.
hoodoo2001 I bet you could given the circumstances.
Your videos grow increasingly more professional. Excellent work.
Thanks! I try to improve.
@@capandball maybe i think it was difficult to find the right Military tactics in that time .
Why the equipment in that time was a total Mix mess .
From Smoothbore Muskets to rifled muskets over breach load Rifles to repeaters everything have existed in the civil war .
That's is one reason why its was very difficult to find in that time the right Military Tactics.
Even in the War there was many changes .
"The Civil War: A war fought with obsolete tactics and modern weapons"
WWI: Hold my beer.
Well the the first trenches in warfare were used in civil war,
@@javimb92 That reinforces my point actually.
@@javimb92 have you heard about the siege of Constantinople four century before or vienna two centuries earlier? Breast works where used by the british longbowmen, In trenches are used in warfare since the Roman time if not earlier....
@Ivan Moreno Yeah, then WW1 massively one-upped the death toll thanks to old rank-and-file formations and cavalry charges being thrown against ubiquitous machine guns and massive fast firing howitzers.
@@javimb92 They've existed since at LEAST Roman period. The Civil War saw a huge advancement in trenches, like at Petersburg, the confederates build 154 miles of trenches, equal to 1/5 of the trenches in the Western Front in WW1.
I chose the Uberti 1860 Henry in .45 Colt caliber & modified the cartridge overall length (coal) of the .45 S&W (Schofield) to precisely 1.370 inches so my Henry, having one cartridge in the chamber if I choose and 15 in the magazine, giving me the 'original' sixteen-shooter. This can also be accomplished with .44 Colt case I'm told. I operate my 1860 w/o removing it from my shoulder through a course or string of firing as well. Thank you for a truly informative Henry video, sir. - Col. Montana Kid Hammer of Fairbanks, Alaska USA
I have that same cartridge box. Only mine has a "CS" brass plate. I have an 1853 Pattern 3 Enfield and I absolutely love the thing. I love seeing reviews such as this, as I am a huge fan of military and weapons history. Love the channel!
Showing my daughters some of your older videos cap. They are getting the black powder bug and your experience is invaluable! We have been binge watching them
I must say, the level of work and dedication you put into making your videos - uniforms, acting, etc. - is astounding! you need a separate bar of liks just for effort!
Gorgeous rifle. I'd love to get either one of these, or an 1866 in .45 Colt to go with my 1875 Remington. Thanks for the video!
They were chambered in .44 Henry rim fire. 200gr bulled with 28gr of black powder. The Winchester 1866 was also chambered in .44 Henry. It wasn't until the advent of the .44WCF (44-40) that a new, more powerful, center fire cartridge was common. Winchester never chambered their rifles in .45 Colt.
That feel when you just killed a guy 2:02
I lol'd
as a reanactor Nope as a Genreal Public person(s) "yah he deffonatly killed him but wait... taps? WAIT ARE THEY GETTING BACK UP!?!?!?!?"
XelPixels irrr
*in a school.
This is still the best comment ever made on this channel
Really loving your videos so far, even though I have a hard time understanding your accent at times haha
Excellent video as usual. You have one of my favorite RUclips channels.
that damned yankee rifle they load on Sunday and shoot all week
That name is to long
That was the 7 shot spencer repeater.
If you didn’t know, that was what the confederates said about the Henry rifle.
i dont mean to be off topic but does any of you know a way to get back into an Instagram account..?
I was stupid lost my password. I would appreciate any tips you can offer me!
@Finn Lucas Instablaster =)
0:56 there's a car driving across an asphalt road.
Muh immersion though
Must be the union new mechanized cavalry lol.
Damn time travellers ruin everything.
i didnt know there were cars in 1860s
Jeb Stuarts Buick on a flanking run
Outstanding video! Loved it!
I wish I had that damn Yankee rifle that I could load on Sunday and shoot all week.
(4:09)
Oh yes, 16 days in a week?
Just wondering if you teach professionally? You're good at teaching and presenting the history of firearms. Excellent presentation. Enjoyable video.
Yes I do. As a contributor teacher.
Great video as usual. I love my Uberti Henry in .44-40. It is beautiful to look at and extremely accurate. It shoots well with black powder or smokeless. It was the favorite of Plains Indians, too. I have a steel Henry in .45 Colt, but IMHO it is not quite as accurate as the .44. The .44's necked case seals the chamber and allows minimal blowback of residue.
I shot the 45LC as well and I agree with you. The 44-40 case seals much better.
+J.L. Roberts Henry repeating arm co. in the US makes a 44-40 that puts the Uberti to shame, as I own both....
+d “skypilot” loan My HRACo. in .22 WMR is a tack driver at 100 yds., but I have never shot any of their other rifles. Sometimes each rifle is an individual with it's own quirks. And sometimes factory sights leave a lot to be desired. I have no complaints about my Uberti Henry or my Uberti 1866.
I would love to buy one of those US Henry's. But the price is out of range for me...
In the Civil War, the Spenser was preferred. It fired a 300 grain bullet at 1,000 fps compared to the Henry's 200 grain bullet at 1,000 fps. The Spenser had a speed loading system, I believe called the Blakley. It was carried by a shoulder strap or on the belt. They held 7 or more preloaded tubes of 7 cartridges each. You just pulled the spring Carrier from the butt of the Rifle or Carbine, dumped in the new tube of cartridges and replaced the spring Carrier and locked it in place, you were ready to fire another 7 shots. With this system, reloading the weapon was far faster than the Henry was. Unlike the Henry, the Spenser could be reloaded on horseback, something Custer's Cavalry used in Battles against the Confederate Cavalry. By 1864 most Confederate Cavalry rarely used the Sword, they would carry 2 to 6 Colt type revolvers and a single shot Carbine for long range shooting. In raids, useing Pistols each had 12, 24 or 36 shots depending on the number of Pistols they had bought or captured. The Union carried at least two Colt or Remington's, giving 12 shots at close ranges, the Spenser with the speed tubes giving them 56 shots at a longer range. The big Advantage of both the Henry and Spenser was if captured by the Confederates, the South couldn't make Ammunition for these Firearms, not having the Technology to spin cartridges for them. These Weapons made a Cavalry Charge far more deadly at close ranges than Napoleonic Cavalry was, because both Pistols and Carbines had far greater range that the Sword or Lance did. Against the Arms of the older type Cavalry, Confederates and later the Union could kill 10 to 20 men for each one they lost, the Sword was used when the other side ran away on foot. In Cavalry versus Cavalry, if they had a Sword, you simply shot them before they got close enough to use it.
From what I have heard, the speed loading tubes for the Spencer were extremely fragile and not very commonly used, you'd have to carry them all with you which is awkward as all hell, since you either have several tubes on your person, or a big wooden crate to carry in addition to everything else. You'd either end up with tubes that are too heavy to carry many of, or too fragile to reliably work.
The real reason I think the Spencer was preferred was that it was more durable and closed up, the magazine is protected by the stock, and not open to the element and ready to be clogged up with mud at all times.
You also have to be conscious of the Spencer's magazine spring and follower having to be removed completely to reload, which is not a task you want to do on horseback, its easy to drop that and have a non functional magazine. Single loading is more easy on the spencer however, which could have been a factor in it being favoured, since that is possible on a horseback.
I also think it was an economic reason, since the Spencer uses some parts from the Sharps rifle/carbine which would make it more cheap to produce.
@@TheMadalucard They were carried in a wooden container with a shoulder strap that let it hang at belt level. The tubes were brass. Most held 7 tubes.
So very interesting and a terrific production number. I always look forward to your vids. Thank you.
I have my Henry on order from my local gun shop and it should be here next week. ;-)
Another fine gun and fine video you made! When someone brings out a Henry, it can only bring smiles and murmuring to the surrounding shooters. Nothing quite like a Henry.
Between the loading packet and the metal jacket , was the paper cartige use from the french infantry in the 11mm 1866 Chassepot rifle: was breech loaded , and so much faster to load as muzzle load, but the combustion of the paper produce so much dirt that it was necessary to clean the barel all 10 shots, so in 1872 the "Gras" rifle who shot metal jacket ammunition was adopted (this rifle was only a light evolution from the Chassepot)...
Great clip , Balasz !!
you made me a fan of the paprika westerns!!
( by the way , did you load it on sunday ? )
Great job! Your videos are just getting better and better! Entertaining and educating :) Keep it up!
I have a cartridge box from a soldier of the 11th Iowa and it is clear that he carried his caps in the pocket next to the cartridges in the cartridge box. You can see the wear where he would scoop out the primers with his finger. I tried this out in living history and it was much more convenient than with the small primer pouch.
I love the no wood forearm look. All metal. Kind of like my Sig P226's with alum grips.
it's good to see some foreigners liking some of our more historic guns one of the favorite guns I own is a Savage which is over 60 years old made in Chicopee Massachusetts it is a very interesting shotgun I eventually want to get myself a lever action in 4570
Excellent, brother. As usual.
I would absolutely love a video on how you clean and maintain your Henry after using black powder. I've been reluctant to put black powder through mine, as I have not found any reliable information on care.
I love my Henry I use for SASS (single action shooting society) you might enjoy it also but it values speed over long range.
I love my 1860 Navy Arms Henry .44-40. The way you hold it is one way. I use the tips of my fingers and thumb on the barrel leaving a "hole" for the follower to go through without hanging up. Man that barrel gets hot if you shoot a lot of shots, so your way would be cooler on the fingers. My rifle is super accurate.
I like this channel feeding the algorithm 👍😁
i thought it was a film, it was a loading process. I like it!
Very good video. The Henry was a legendary rifle. And you know your subjects. Certainly without the Henry, no Winchester rifles.
As usual. You have done your homework well. Many thanks
I want review of the Spencer 1860 made by Chiappa :-)
Me too. I love that gun!
It's made by Chiappa, so i wouldn't get your hopes up. They're known for having poor quality control and workmanship on their guns.
I love the falsetto yells in the intro. Apparently, the confederate soldiers in particular were fond of these high-pitched battle-cries (google "rebel yell") and it has been suggested that this habit was copied from Native American war cries. However, I personally think that falsetto yelling comes pretty natural for people who are used to cattle herding. Calling cattle is very often done at the very top of one's register as higher pitch notes carry farther and are more easily heard over long distances.
*Correction:* The higher pitches of human voices are more easily heard to humans because of how our ears perceive sound. Lower frequencies carry much farther though. See RIAC's reply below.
Not to be too pedantic, but while human ears more readily perceive higher pitches in their audible range, it is actually the lower frequency waves that are able to travel further due to less energy being transferred to the medium.
Never thought of the cattle herding relation before. Interesting.
"Not to be too pedantic, but while human ears more readily perceive
higher pitches in their audible range, it is actually the lower
frequency waves that are able to travel further due to less energy being
transferred to the medium."
You're absolutely right, thanks for the correction!
again, another interesting, and well presented offering. I envy you association with so many fire old, and reproduction arms. Keep it up
very informative! thank you for sharing
C'est toujours un grand plaisir de visionner vos vidéos, merci pour celle-ci.
Magnifique la Henry, j'en rêve :-).
"The rifle you load on sunday and shoot all week." What an incredible advantage, a 15rd Henry on a cap & ball battlefield
This is one of your better videos, especially the intro.
Oops. Don't interchange the rocket ball (unprimed, Hunt) and the Volcanic rounds (primed, Smith & Wesson). It's a common mistake on two similar but different rounds. I only mention it because I know you're a man who appreciates historical accuracy in his videos.
You really do a nice job of showing how well constructed the Uberti appears. That really is a beautiful gun.
Another great video thank you sir for the great information. This is one of my all time favorite lever guns I have been searching the local shops for 25 plus years and finally found the very first one and almost died when I seen the $1700 price tag so it might be a little while longer before I can add it to the collection!
fitter it out
Dixie Gun Works sells the Uberti Henry for around $1100. Check them out. That is where I got mine.
anyone else notice the fragging of the round at 06:02?
Thirty five years ago they were available in 44-40 and 44 Rimfire. The Rimfire model was great for a collection since originals are scarce and expensive. Also great if you had a time machine.
A good video , quite educational.
Using the .45 S&W Schofield centerfire case and seating a 200 grain Round Nose Flat Point lead projectile on that case to the COAL, (cartridge-overall length) of "precisely" 1.370 inches/34.80 millimeters and the case filled with fine black powder & compressed, my Uberti 1860 Henry (and Uberti M-1866) rifle(s) will hold 15 cartridges in the magazine, & 16 w/one cartridge in the chamber + 15 in the magazine. This permits me to shoot my new centerfire Henry/Improved Henry rifles like the original rimfire Henry flat cartridge lever rifles of old.
great video lovely rifle
I really enjoy watching your videos 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻.
I love my Uberty copy of the 1860 Henry. It is a joy to shoot and always draws attention if
I happen to take it to a public range. As a kid I shot an original. Wish I had the forsight to have bought it. Still, the Uberti is a really close reproduction and for me, just plain fits and handles well. It isn't for everyone, though. Most of my friends don't like it. But for me, it is a perfect fit and I find it amazingly fast to point and shoot. It actually makes a pretty good hunting rifle in brush where shots are limited to 100 - 150 yards. My Henry is a brass frame so I do not use any high power loads and certainly no +p loads. I load my own rounds for this gun and they are more powerful then cowboy action loads but not as powerful as something like a CCi load. A good midrange load that would be safe even in an original Colt revolver (Mine is in .45 Colt). No need to beat this beautiful rifle to death.
I have loaded some .45's with black powder and they work well, but make quite a mess. The original 44 rimfire was a black powder round. You do get that huge smoke cloud after firing a few rounds and you also experience that hot barrel they talk of.
love your videos btw very well made and very important is but in a fun way with history as well
Nice uniform, but a small critique-the belt would usually be put on after the cartridge box to keep it from slipping around.
Very well done video!
the best video about it henry
Well done, fun video.
Action packed! 🍿
Such an amazing rifle.
Are your glasses original as well?
I'd love a pair like that.
Throw away that tedious Musket and hand me that Henry!
grand presentation!!!!
I wonder how often a primer stayed in the Volcanic and fouled the action by getting jammed somewhere while cycling? Do you know how many grains powder the hollow base round held?
The bugle call at 1:57 is ''Retreat and to the colors".
my grandpa used to have an original one that , his translated words, "that my father took from some gringo who tried to shoot him in Juarez" it was beautiful but when he died it was given to a family member who didn't understand its value only that it was a gun so she melted it down to teach my cousins a "lesson"
GenericName I just cried
GenericName she had an original one she could have sold that for good money so you are certainly right she didn't understand its value
Actually, guerrilla tactics and trench warfare were relatively common in the civil war which are modern forms of combat.
Really fantastic!
Nice piece
Did the original have the lever lock mechanism?
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it was quite advanced technology for that time
Just watching this video, and I noticed that your first target shot caused 3 holes to appear in the paper target, one to the left between the 3/4 mark, one to the right of the 3 mark and one smack on the 1 mark. Did the bullet break up in flight?
No, the wooden holder that held the paper target was rough.
Wonderful video!
I think you're outnumbered there, and dem Rebs look a might quarrelsome. I've eyed those brass frame Henry's for BPCR, but wondered how much fouling would work into the receiver and how difficult it is to keep clean. Are you finding much fouling leaking back from the chamber?
Not really. The smoke exiting the chamber upon ejection howver darkens the barss. So it is a continuos fight against patina. Or let the patina win, and you have a nice antique finish Henry. :)
Which is better Colt-Burgess or Henry?
I'm sorry to say this but you're wrong about musket loading. You are able to load a muzzleloader while kneeling or prone, albeit with some difficulty. I've done reenacting and I hunt with one, while kneeling place the butt behind you angling the muzzle away from you. When prone roll onto your back, plane the stock between your legs, and angle the muzzle up. For reenacting we learned this early on, the reason you see men standing is because that was the easiest and fastest loading.
how did they carry it in the field? why no provision for a sling?
That brass receiver sure is sweet.
Ever polished brass the old fashioned way? It's a PAIN in the neck!
what was that rifle blueprint that had bullets feeding through the stock of the rifle?
The rifled musket can be loaded from the prone...what are you talking about?
You're not supposed to hold this gun to your shoulder, but the arm (thus the hollow shape of the stock)
Nice video, I always wondered how many shots can you go through reliably with black powder until fouling is a problem?
I have never had a problem with mine. I can shoot a whole SASS/NCOWS match and never had problems with fouling.
I've seen cap and ball revolvers getting sticky just after 6 shots. I'd wager they would be really hard to reload after 12. Is that a misconception? What's different about the Henry rifle?
My first tattoo was supposed to be this rifle. The artist couldn't find a good picture of one so I got a Winchester 1873 instead.
Using blackpowder what sort of cleaning routine do you use.Great vid by the way.
I use 2-3 wet patches, followed by a few dry ones, than comes the oil patch lubricated with Brunox. This is enough for everyday cleaning. I use 1:14 tin-lead alloy, so the leading is minimal, but every year I clean the bore with Roble just in case.
In the South we call it "The War of Northern Aggression." Some Henrys did find their way into CSA hands, but ammunition was a problem. Good video.
But the south started the war,just because the north won Doesn't make them the aggressors
Don't say "we". I've lived in the south my whole life and I've seen that the only people who call it "The War of Northern Aggression" are the YEEHAWW BISCUITS AND GRAVY type. Defiantly not "we"
The truly genteel southerner calls it the recent unpleasantness.
keith harvey
Wrong. You were taught the CSA started the war because they lost. The winner writes the history books. We call it the War of Northern Aggression for good reason. Yankees occupied our forts and refused to leave peacefully, provoking battle, yankee ships blocked out ports before a shot was fired. What do you call that? seems a little aggressive to me. America still does this today, we provoke a war with a 3rd world country that doesnt even have a Navy, then act like they started it.
Powder
Those YEE HAWW "biscuits and gravy" type are the only real southerners left. Why don't you go to California?
I thought Hungary was, like, anti-gun? How do you get these?
great video, great job
thanks Tony. It was a great fun to make it.
Very good made ! 👍👍👍
The frames where actually bronze (copper and tin) versus what people think brass (copper and zinc).
Muzzle velocity of a Springfield musket is only 290m/sec ???
I'm gonna sound stupid here but until today I dind't know the paper cartridges we assembled in a factory. I'd assumed when there was a lull in the fighting the solders just got some powder, paper and minie balls and rolled 'em up like joints!
This rifle is one of the best rifles in 19th centery as dreyse and chassepot
Why did your follower go all the way down to the frame after you loaded the rifle? (-;
I love your outfit! Where pray tell did you get them? Do they have confederate grey as well?