Challenger Mistake

[KAZ]

I made the mistake of shooting a friends Browning Challenger and actually fired my best group ever with his Belgium masterpiece. I tried to buy it on the spot to no avail, and started to keep my eyes open for one. Last week I found this 1985 with both the 6 3/4" & 4 1/2" barrels and was able to spend a little range time before the single strand of barbed wire that we use to keep cold fronts out of Texas failed Tuesday night. I'm as close to falling in love with an inanimate object as one can get It is a sweet shooter.

[bearandoldman]

KAZ, give the dog a cookie and maybe a puparoni and enjoy that new to you pistola. Funny thing happened at the gun shop last Friday a Henry followed me home and would not leave. It now calls me daddy.

[KAZ]

I knew that it wasn't just me! I like those Henry's Which one overcame your reserve of will power? Browning should still be making the Challenger as a high end of their rimfire line. The real KAZ came up with a trumped up need to check out the yard so that he could come right back in and scam a cookie. Do you recognize that program? Regards

[bearandoldman]

I knew that it wasn't just me! I like those Henry's Which one overcame your reserve of will power? Browning should still be making the Challenger as a high end of their rimfire line. The real KAZ came up with a trumped up need to check out the yard so that he could come right back in and scam a cookie. Do you recognize that program? Regards

well, lets see, when I come in I get a 2 cookies and maybe 3, soooooooooo, think I will go back ut and make sure the yard is safe. Just the common H001, really was not planning on buying just looking for a gun for Hakaman, and there it was in the rack. He has not had one is stock since early fall and the wood was decent, so told him to set it aside and I would pick it up later in the week, which I did last Friday and took iit to the range. That is the real advantage of doing business with a guy you have known for 5 plus years and his son since damn near birth, no need to put a deposit or anything like that. It is a good shooter but the sigh need some work for these old tired eyes. Had one of my 22/45's laying on the bench next to it and this transplant happened to the front sight and it works great.

[KAZ]

I really like those sights! Very quick even with my less than young eyes. Regards

[Tigerbeetle]

I thought you had mentioned a Henry recently in one of your forum comments. I keep my little Henry near my desk at home (along with a few favorite handguns) just to pick up when I need a break to clear my feeble mind once in a while. KAZ sounds like a similar type individual. Y'all take care. I gotta get back to work. HA!

[bearandoldman]

I thought you had mentioned a Henry recently in one of your forum comments. I keep my little Henry near my desk at home (along with a few favorite handguns) just to pick up when I need a break to clear my feeble mind once in a while. KAZ sounds like a similar type individual. Y'all take care. I gotta get back to work. HA!

Somebody has to work to keep my SS checks coming every month.

[bearandoldman]

I thought you had mentioned a Henry recently in one of your forum comments. I keep my little Henry near my desk at home (along with a few favorite handguns) just to pick up when I need a break to clear my feeble mind once in a while. KAZ sounds like a similar type individual. Y'all take care. I gotta get back to work. HA!

Picked up some moounts to use on the 3/8 rail on the Henry receiver cover. Tried to use a Weaver to 3/8 adapter but it had way too much play in it to even think about using, swapped it back to my friends shop and a few bucks and got some Millet rimfire rings, had a Tasco 6-24x42 just setting there so we mated them for a try. The Henry sure is a fun plinker at 25 feet with that HiViiz on it. Have not shot it that much yet but it sure looks like it has potential especially with Fiocchi #22CRN or LSP ammo. Probably only got a couple hundred rounds or so through it, had the weather been better lately would be more. Shot tis rested at 25 yards the other day, 10 shots. Will have to get a pic of Henry and his scope.

[greener]

Not bad at all, Len. Looks like a very adequate plinker.

Looks like I may miss shooting for a while, so I may be getting some of the cabin fever you've had. Rain this weekend and then a two-week all expense paid vacation in a landfill in Seattle. I'm getting withdrawal thinking about it.

[bearandoldman]

Not bad at all, Len. Looks like a very adequate plinker.

Looks like I may miss shooting for a while, so I may be getting some of the cabin fever you've had. Rain this weekend and then a two-week all expense paid vacation in a landfill in Seattle. I'm getting withdrawal thinking about it.

That's where seniority pays off, you get all of the soft gravy jobs that all the young guys are trying to get in on. Does that include and apprenticeship in dumpster diving also? Henry really impresses me, after he gets few more rounds through him he may even get better yet. Do have scopes of higher power on other guns and we may switch one to see if it gets any better.

[Tigerbeetle]

Those Henry's are indeed fun guns. Lousy weather (and a little laziness) prevented me from taking young Henry squirrel hunting in January and Feb. but there is always time this coming fall. I have an old 4X Weaver K-4 on mine. I want to put something a little nicer on it, but I also want to try a scope on my Buck Mark and maybe try the red dot on something else. But I seem to have seriously put a "Hurt" on my slush fund lately, so I need to work a few more days at Bass Pro before I start my search in a serious manner.
I apologize if I have already had this up once, but it is pretty I can't help it...

Nearly as good as yours OM. Also at 25 yards. Sure is fun. Might have to go shoot this morning. Raining cats and dogs down here today, sounds like a good day for the indoor range.

[bearandoldman]

It amazed me too be such a good shooter right out of the ox, but then my 10/22's shot well out of the box also and none of them are high cost guns. The only thing about the Henry I do not care for is the 3/8 rimfire rail n the receiver, I hav a lot of scopes with Weaver style rings on them and I will do a quick swap and resight at time, Tried one of those Weaver rail adapters for a 9422 and it works but the fit is so loose to make it go on easily, it just moves around too much when yum tighten the 2 setscrews. Has one forward and one rear and you can put some serious up or down angle on it when you mount it. No for me , took it back to my dealer and traded it and some cash for a sett of high Millet Rimfire rings and they work fine, just make quick scope swapping a little more difficult.
Also wish I could lighten the trigger pull, it is good trigger, smoth and not sloppy but just a little heavier than I care for.

[KAZ]

That stock is a beaut TB, and it shoots! If, you ever become concerned about risking it in the woods I'd be willing to make the sacrifice and take it off your hands, with the promise to wear everyone out looking at the picture

[bearandoldman]

That stock is a beaut TB, and it shoots! If, you ever become concerned about risking it in the woods I'd be willing to make the sacrifice and take it off your hands, with the promise to wear everyone out looking at the picture

Damn, you sure a re a helpful guy willing to put yourself out like that to give a fellow shooter peace of mind. Bear says give the dog a cookie, he needs one or maybe more.

[KAZ]

Well KAZ has already had breakfast, and now he is putting on the pressure big time for us to go for our walk. He is unconcerned that it is in the mid 30s with a 20 to 25 mph wind that would freeze one of us. He saw/chased three rabbits yesterday, and is certain they will still be there. What an incredible optimist! Regards