I just bought a Henry All Weather lever gun in38spl, unboxed it, loaded it with 130 grain steel-cased Tula that I run through my S&W 38spl, and headed out to the backyard range. I ran ten rounds through it without trouble. I was dinging 6" steel targets at 100 yards out of the box, which is pretty good given the state of my eyes as I get older. I reloaded, popped off another 8 rounds and then the gun stopped cycling. It fired just fine, but the lever stops moving once it engages the bolt. The bolt appears to move back a couple ten thousandths of an inch, but no further.
I went back to the box, found the manual, and read through it to see if there was some secret I was missing. And that's when I saw in the AMMO section it says only use 357mag or 158gr 38spl that closely mimics the 357 Magnum cartridge. But here's the strange part: "Due to the shoulder location on the carrier, the gun will not feed: 110GR, 125GR, 130GF, etc. .38 special loads reliably."
I'm not having a feed problem. It was feeding just fine. I'm having an extraction problem.
The manual say DO NOT run aluminum ammo through it, but it's silent on steel.
Thoughts?
I went back to the box, found the manual, and read through it to see if there was some secret I was missing. And that's when I saw in the AMMO section it says only use 357mag or 158gr 38spl that closely mimics the 357 Magnum cartridge. But here's the strange part: "Due to the shoulder location on the carrier, the gun will not feed: 110GR, 125GR, 130GF, etc. .38 special loads reliably."
I'm not having a feed problem. It was feeding just fine. I'm having an extraction problem.
The manual say DO NOT run aluminum ammo through it, but it's silent on steel.
Thoughts?