First off thanks to Mega and the other contributors for all the info on this rifle.
I thought I'd make a couple of observations about my experience with this rifle today.
I did the spring swap with the Grainger 54-44 and removed the inner spring as discussed on the long Henry single shot thread. It definitely helped lighten the trigger. It still has the slight 2 stage hitch feeling but I'm OK with that.
I fired 20 rounds of Winchester Super X 160 grain from a bench rest at 100 yards. The photo shows my last 11 rounds. The center target was my first group and pretty darned good. I tried to raise the group up an inch and you can see the result in group two (lower left). I'm attributing some of that to a hot/dirty barrel, and the rest to an average - at best - shooter.
The third group, lower right, happened after my misfires and I think I was pretty frustrated at this point. Bottom line is that I believe the first group is an accurate assessment of it's potential accuracy.
After firing about 15 rounds, I had two misfires. The picture show all my brass and I can see a difference between the two misfires (far left) and the other brass. This may well be the ammo because I fired another 3 rounds after the misfires without issue and I also tried multiple refires on the two duds after that and they still did not fire.
Comments??
Thanks, Bob