Browning BL-22

[FergusonTO35]

i agree with you, the BLR is a quality rifle. comparing it to a henry is like comparing a yugo to a caddy. in a henry 22, everything but the barrel is pot metal, but it dont sell for pot metal prices.

I have a Henry H001T. The only pot metal on mine is the receiver casting, which cowboy action shooters have shown will go tens of thousands of rounds just fine. Other than the aluminum receiver cover and plastic buttplate everything else is wood or steel. I paid $300.00 for it. No way are you going to buy a lever action .22 with an octagonal barrel from any other make for even twice that price, if you can even find one at all.

Back on topic, the BL-22 was a close second choice, the octagonal barrel sold me on the Henry. Wouldnt mind having a BL-22 also someday.

[dverna]

I have a Grade II. Thinking about selling it. Too pretty for me to use. Have a NIB 9422 as well.

Heck, I have not shot a .22 rifle in over 6 months and I have six of them. Need to change that.

[boommer]

nothing wrong with the henrys at all ! the brownies BL's are just a great little rifle.

[sandog]

Got out with the BL-22 again today. The Williams GRS sight is still too far down, partway off the base, but man is she sighted in !
I went through about 200 rounds, shooting at empty shotshell hulls, breaking small rocks into dust, and popping some golf balls I had thrown down range.

I don't think I can, or want to go much higher with the front sight, so will break down and buy a Skinner, or else go red dot with another FastFire. But what a fun little plinker.



Shot my JM Marlin ..45 Cowboy too:

[FergusonTO35]

I like your taste in rifles and sights! How tall is the front on your BL-22? The WGRS receiver sight you have on it probably requires something like .550. I had one on my Henry for awhile. Replaced it with an FP-GR which is just awesome.

[sandog]

Thanks, Ferguson. Nice levers are a joy yo own and shoot.
That front sight is a .470". I think it already looks too tall, so I'll probably get the FP-GR or a Skinner.
I just used the WGRS because I already had it, and didn't have to put out more money.
I have the FP on my Marlin 1894 and they are great.

[FergusonTO35]

FP-GR with target knobs is on my Henry H001T. It works great and gets the aperture a lot lower than the WGRS does.

[sandog]

FP-GR with target knobs is on my Henry H001T. It works great and gets the aperture a lot lower than the WGRS does.

The FP I have on my 1894 .45 Colt was originally made for my Marlin 39M. It seemed way to wide for that thin receiver, and hung over both sides a lot.
I ground down the thick base (which Williams puts on to help center the sight better on slim receivered .22's.
Once I did that, it fit the 1894 much better than it ever did the 39M.

Some reviews I read on the FP-GR said that they liked the sight, but thought it was too big (wide) looking for a little .22.
The Skinner is $30-$40 more, but I think I'd like how it looks on the BL-22.
http://www.skinnersights.com/rimfire...sights_25.html

[sharps4590]

I had one for years and killed a truck load of squirrels and rabbits with it. It had been my Dad's and somewhere in the dim, distant past we worked a trade and I ended up with it. He didn't like lever rifles and I do so I expect he was pretty generous with me. He liked his Marlin Mod. 60 better than the Browning!!! I gave it to my oldest son....goodness, 20 years ago? It's the only Browning I ever wanted and only one I've ever owned. Were I to get a lever 22 today it would probably be a Marlin '91 or '39. I have absolutely nothing bad to say about the Browning, I just prefer the Marlin's. Henry's don't interest me in the least and I never warmed to the Winchester although I'm generally a Winchester guy. Go figger? I wouldn't part with my Mod. 74 Winchester but it was Dad's. Other than that I'd have no interest in it.

[Patrick L]

You know, a Marlin 39 is one of my bucket list guns, but darned if this hasn't got me thinking!!!!