Got a call from my LGS today, asked if I still had the Henry 45/70 that I poste on here recently, I told him affirmative. He then proceeded to tell me he had a customer wanting on, that had an original 50/70 trapdoor to trade for it. I thanked him and boogied on up there. The gun was in pretty good shape, for its age, I guess. It had a crack between the lock screws on the stock, the rest of the stock is tight and correct. The barrel was without finish, which most of them were finished in the white, as far as the 50/70's go, if I recollect correctly. All the metal was between a gray/light brown patina. The action had several light pits around on it, small, but several of them. I dropped a light down the bore, expecting the worst, when to my surprise, I found a pristine bore! Nice and shiny, well defined rifling. I continued to give it a look over, everything worked as it should. I asked him what he was thinking. He then produced 20 rounds loaded, new, that he had ordered from some online place , with 2 empties. He said he would trade straight up. I reluctantly gave in and traded, just because the bore was son dang nice, I am heading out the door to shoot it in a few minutes with a report later this evening. I am into the rifle for cheap, so I can live with the issues. If it shoots great, I will probably buy another stock for it, and clean it up some.
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