Henry vs Marlin

oh oh hi Hickok 45 here I'm kind of busy right now testing out these rifles John where'd you come from with a camera try to figure out which one of these all like better about 3030 yeah sorry I don't mean to be annoyed I'm busy though trying to figure out which of these two lever guns are preferred for both 3030 but I know you can help me how's that you helped me decide so glad you're here glad John's filming he's always got a camera out look at that mess man we're not water come from so you're always filming this what are you doing with these videos John you know putting these on in line or somewhere on the Internet a hope but anyway yeah trying to decide between these two fine rifles both of them guess where they came from Bud's gun shop comm so you know how much we appreciate their help this Marlin is a TDL model there Tex and new Texan deluxe so it's great to get that in to try out and then the new Henry side gate you know if we got in from buds to try out and they're both going back and we have videos on both of these rifles okay so I'll link to those in the description if John puts this thing on the line you know I guess he doesn't a lot of this online but uh so I'm trying to figure which one I like better and we're shooting federal ammo in them running out of 3030 but we got enough to test them and you know we appreciate the help from federal this food especially your rifle rounds Wow they can get expensive can't they and then don't forget speaking of rifles if you're not a member of the National Rifle Association join up need all to help we get the biggest the biggest power on the block we want to keep strong best we can so appreciate your help there go the link in the description and join us so here we are trying to decide why would that be a problem I'm generally fairly I don't know if I should say opinionated but I know what I like and what I don't like and here we have two relatively new rifles they even this Marlin I think just came out last year and this side gate Henry just came out recently and I thought I need to decide which I would prefer so I can instruct you which one to buy isn't that the way we operate no we don't do we we just point out positives negatives from our perspective what we like what we don't like based on our experience and everything try not to do again as we've advised many times we tried not to do obnoxious bashing videos or obnoxious infomercials you know there's always the gray area there's always something good about a firearm something desirable there's a few might be harder to find right but there's always the positives and the negatives okay so we're not gonna try to you know just be crazy and then go one way the other to an extreme so these two rifles the reason I'm going to compare them a little bit and the reason I'm having a hard time deciding it's their vote similar and they're both fairly attractive okay now that's a little hen aloof I won't say ironic but the fact that a new Marlin is fairly impressive to me okay Wow in this Henry you know I bash in real ittle bit because of the side loading gate that kind of thing even though they made good good firearms well here we've got a Henry with a loading gate okay and we've got a new Marlin made just recently I don't know maybe last month you know it's a it's a new gun and it's yeah it's smooth and the fitting is not too bad on it and it's not perfect but it's not too bad and it's it's a firearm that I would purchase alright and I don't and if you've been around a while you know that saying a lot for me I prefer the JM models but you know this might be one I would consider if I needed a deer rifle we just wanted another 30 30 or 35 Remington and whatever else that comes in it's not bad at all I like the sights and the feel of the gun same with the Henry okay and another reason for comparing these right now I thought it might be a first of all maybe informative to an extent you might not be aware of either one of these rifles and you're kind of looking for a decent lever gun deer rifle not necessarily the cheapest one out there okay because there are less expensive rifles that's why we're here today this one is a little these are both a little more premium though they're not $3,000 rifles but they do in us RP at now use as a verb the Ennis RP at right around thousand a thousand fifty dollars that kind of thing okay which means you can probably buy either one of them for nine hundred to nine seventy-five or something like that somewhere between 900 and thous I would get I'd guess closer than nine hundred maybe I don't know so they're they're not cheap but they're not crazy expensive and they're in the same ballpark we're the very close ballpark okay so this one again it's a little bit better Marlin it's the it's a the we called the Texan deluxe we just have a video on it and it's it's a nice nice rifle alright and this Henry is a nice rifle you can tell by looking at it can't you so if you're about to spend a nine hundred bucks plus for a rifle like this we thought would at least tell you what we know about these and what we think about them okay I have shot them both have done videos with them link will link to those they're both great shooters are that we need to do a little more eyes you'll see from the video tweak the adjustment on the sight rear sight on this one but they they're good shooters and they feel good they really do and they're well made now it kind of comes down to whether or not you're a Marlin person and Henry person whether you just still you just for the life of you purchase a new Marla rambling or whatever you want to call it you just can't do it can do it well again you know I've bash them myself but we don't want them going out of business you might want to take a look at some of the it's kind of what we do we have brought to you new Marlins I guess three times maybe four you know over the last few years and this that's one of the things we did we look at the fit and the finish and you know what it looks like how's Marlon doing at least on the specific rifles that we have so we're trying to keep you kind of up to date on that and keep ourselves up to date on how they're doing it's subjective to some extent right so don't what I'm going out of business but then again we want to show what they're doing and how they're doing and again speaking of that like I say this this rifle is not that bad now the big picture they're both thirty thirty-two both nice-size rifles they've got plenty of heft they feel good they've got smooth actions they're both I'll say equally accurate the sights are almost the same sights got an ivory be kind of thing with a buckhorn rear sight they're not a lot of difference in some of the functional aspects of them okay so kind of comes down to the name and then you know whether you trust the new Marlins excuse me that sneeze you made me sneeze oh maybe I was lying I had to sneeze so whether you be like a brass receiver and you know and buttplate and all that here that really appeals to you the engraving on the the stock of this Henry again this is the Henry side gate relatively new and very new all right they're both drilled and tapped for a sights they both have the Oh like the Marlin you can mount a sight very easily on top of the receiver you know that's one of the claims to fame with the Marlin supposed to Winchester where it's open and a little more problematic to mount a sight up there although it can be done and has been done for a hundred years so they're very similar in a lot of ways in fact I don't know if you notice this or not but this Henry side gate rifle appears to be a Marlin 336 let me look at it I got the the bolt and everything comes apart the same way every screw everything is pretty much exactly the same except for you've got a cross bolt safety on the Marlin you can see there I mean they they are the same action basically okay I don't want get anybody in trouble here but they are the same action they really are the lever now the lever is a different shape I just notice they've got a little squared off lever here on the 336 and around I like around the deliver a little better you got that action okay they both would come apart and take the screw out right there and the lever pulls out you generally want to do it about right there I won't do it today I got done that before I will do it sometime but you take this screw out and that lever pulls out then you pull the bolt out and then the ejector you know it's held right there it comes out and you can clean it very easily and put it back together they both you know field-strip I guess the word you might use they're the same way and just really very similar very very very similar so so I in the past have criticized Henry I guess for not being a replica of anything right there nice looking rifles and they work but they're not a copy of anything in history you know and again Henry the company is nothing to do with the first Henry rifles of 1860 okay that was Winchester essentially but uh so they didn't kind of reproduce any of the guns from the 1800s all right but you know this one they sort of did it's kind of a reproduction of the Marlin in a way so again I'll go make a dwell on that but it really is the same receiver and an action more or less okay so what would it come down to I don't know I'm just trying to give you some idea either one of these I mean it's almost an eenie meenie miney mo and you wouldn't lose in either way I for me the Henry seems to have a better fit the detail of the fit if you notice the receiver its hang there and everything it's probably fit a little more closely the attention to detail you know you tell y'all right there was a gap and so it's a little nicer okay up on the forearm same thing so a little bit better fit and of course the brass is beautiful and for my reading you know they talk a lot about it is brass but it's heat treated and supposedly has the same tensile strength as steel or metal ok steel so I'm gonna guess you have any kind of strength issues there over time so yeah I mean it's just like you've got some guns or shotguns ever an alloy receiver it's not a problem if it's constructed properly anyway so as far as strength there's probably not a big deal in difference the biggest difference of course the Alpha in the room that the huge difference is what you've got a tube feed on this but you've also got the side gate loader so you have both options you can load this one alright it's been shooting this and yeah so you can load this one and unload it to an extent from the tube alright or through the side gate so you got both options on that that might be enough to trip you over to that one yeah and Henry's a phenomenally popular company it's hard to find anything negative about them people just love their guns the great people I've met all of them you know I mean they're just great people and they make a lot of different models and they really do try to satisfy the demand and and the specifics what people are looking for I guess that loading gates an example of how they are receptive to the market and what people are asking for so price is about the same they're both I can't tell you differently how they shoot and you know they're about the same weight again the attention to detail I think the Henry winds out a little bit if you look at the front of the the wood there this a little bit nicer alright and of course you get brass so not that either one set out to compete with the other no you know specifically but since they're so similar that that's really the reason we're comparing them because they're so similar and price range and everything as I said cute ability it's the action you know they just both feel broken in yeah no rough edges this old 1952 model of 336 doesn't feel a lot looser or better than this in fact or either one of them so so this is the Texan it's called got the straight grip stock just like this one and a lot of people like that they both have that you know so I don't see any major negatives are both attractive rifles that's kind of nice to having a cowboy on there you know on the gold trigger and everything doesn't have a brass receiver but has all that sling on there's no trouble they were both ready to go and they've got six for the same size let me hold them up so you can kind of see the sights I'm not gonna do wheel them here but maybe you can get a look at the sight picture the the rear of the buck horn type sight and the front ivory B or whatever they're very very similar they jump out at you okay so just very similar rifles you know the drilled and tapped for a scope or whatever upfront skinner slice whatever you want to put on them now John pointed out how the tube there is dug failed into the barrel that's a little more you know machining and precision work than just the band you have on this one okay on the Marlin but you know both to be fine don't shoot them one more time okay it wasn't big shooting video again I'll link to the videos on these but what we just point these athlete as much as anything make you aware of them if you were not aware you probably wear the side gate loader because it's gotten so much publicity lately and again I'll give you my impressions and the video on but by and large I like it just fine like it just fine and let's put six they both hold six I'll boys that's another way they're similar yeah six rounds with the six in this one yeah you're running out of 43 old rounds there okay let's just say I did this go right I moved the sights of rear sights on this man I got this shooting over to the left so whoever ends up with it by now probably the time you see this has already adjusted the sights there we go all right so this is this is my last go-around I've got to decide which one I'm going to purchase or I would purchase if I were going to buy one of them so I don't listen to I got an idea I'm gonna shoot five out of each one with my ears on here that's what running out targets I'll go here and seven hit a red plate oh I didn't see the deer Josie yeah until after I hit the plate is only moot there's another one a little one walking away sorry guys Wow what if I had hit one would I be in jail right now I didn't see them okay but again that goes to show you as long as you are shooting at something specifically you're not likely to hit I think in an early video we had a pilot we were going something here and one of my dogs was wandering around the range or something in the background I was yakking about something like a lot of people have this vision this idea that oh my god she was a dog on the race he's gonna kill his dog you know shoot his dog well think about it if I'm shooting at one of those animals and even if I miss that animal by that much I feel like it was a bad shot because you know I'm not gonna miss it very missile very often even with a handgun and if I do it's going to be by inch or two so I mean theoretically there could be five or six or eight deer walking around the range and unless I'm shooting at the deer I'm not likely to hit them okay now they could get a little shrapnel you know but anyway just just a reminder let's say did I [ __ ] it let's try oh there's some cinder over there you're gonna get it click I think sound of bring it up I think no well I'm not sure okay I even adjust the side smush I was thinking they both shot a little bit low this one shoots a little bit to the left all right until we get the sights on perfectly let's try a bowling pin here try the gong-gong let's try a buffalo got us a buffalo and we have two rounds left I think so you get a bowling pin right here and which one should we shoot the watermelon with so we just shoot the Marlin at it let's do it Wow okay I guess this one wins because it exploded the water dome dramatically right now so now just two rifles to make you aware of you know that you might not be aware of a couple of modern rifles really come out they have come out within the last year I think this is 2018 this deluxe Texan from Marlin and then this is very recent the side loader from Henry so you know again we're living in great times there's so many nice firearms handguns rifles and everything way more than we need probably way more than should be coming out right it's just it's a marketing gimmick lots of times true right that's okay we don't have to buy them and it gives us more choices and it's cool when the gun companies are kind of receptive to the market and what people actually want this Marlin maybe it's more expensive than you like I think it ought to be but you know I tell you what it's cool to see I would say quality a nice Marlin yeah it's pretty nice you have being made today got watermelon on it or whatever this is one that I would have no trouble taking into the field it's it's a nice rifle and then the Henry yeah nice nice rifle got your loading gate now and great sights pretty wood they both have nice wood and you got some more work on the Henry and more attention to detail I guess we we might we might come to the conclusion in summary that perhaps the Henry is a nicer rifle in that regard you know it's just maybe a little better fit prettier and all that so it might be the choice of a lot of you I don't know this depends it's it's why there's so many colors and shirts and clothing and cars and come in all colors and sighs you know we all have different preferences and tastes so anyway a couple I want to make you aware of and do a little comparison and just let you know they're about the same price and they're both seeing big good guns and you would do well probably with either one so now you're thoroughly confused because you wanted me I know to come to a conclusion on one or the other and be really really fervent about it right I see some people that expect that they really do in fact I've even been called names like I'm afraid to to choose one or the other because I'm going to insult the gun company or something well those folks don't know me too well I don't care who I insult in terms of gun companies alright we're not looking for opportunities to insult them just good guns both of them so anyway anything you want to add there's probably something else I I could have said about them though the one thing I don't like about the Marlin is the cross bolt safety I will say was that in this video I think it was the the main video with this this rifle I went up to shoot and it was on and I don't remember putting it on I mean I did obviously somehow but I didn't know I had done it and click kind of click when I wanted to bang ok so I don't like that the hammer and the trigger in the lever or the safeties in the brain between your ears are the safeties my estimation not the the crossbow don't like that too much so that's a negative on that net firearm so very very pretty but also a very functional life--all either one would be fine so it's just a little comparison there for whatever it's worth not much that's okay we're not gonna give you your money back on this video I'm sorry even if you don't think it was worth much all right glad you came out today appreciate you supporting the people that support us and you can tell by the firearms that come our way that get lent to us we do get a lot of help and the ammo and just just everything so we we deeply appreciate it and we know you do too we enjoy being able to bring you things that we wouldn't normally be able to bring to you as often so it's a great working win-win and relationship so I'm gonna shut out and let you go eat we're gonna do the same life is good oh hi cuz you guys are here just you know feeling a little bit little Tom var to seeing this video but I hope you guys enjoyed it while I'm here I want to remind you to please check out our friends over at SDI and Talon gun grips comm SDI is a fully accredited online distance learning program where you become associated get associate's degree and be associated with some good people get an associates degree in firearms technology and get certified in gunsmithing that's SDI dot e-d-u and also Talon grips makes grips for grip tape for lots of different types of handguns and other purposes as you can see right there they have a lot of cool stuff over on their website go to talent and gun grips dot-com I think you'll be glad you check that out and also SDI so appreciate both of those people and support them if it makes sense for you as we always ask also since you're here just want to further remind you that we do have a website it's called Hickok 45 dot-com that's HIC okay okay four five comm some people try to try to misspell it on us so go check that out that's where you can find all kinds of things over there like our social media the real hook got 45 on Instagram it got 45 on Twitter and Facebook I have an Instagram page John underscore got 45 let's see our merchandise is on our website and also bunker branding dot-com you can find it there too and we have videos on guns streamer now so if you want to check that out watch us somewhere other than YouTube do that and also don't forget about our patreon page we've got some good people over and the gong club on our patreon page so that's something you're interested in check that out we post videos over there occasionally they don't go on YouTube or you get like an early look you know something like that so check that stuff out feel free to watch some other videos and I got to get back to my axe-throwing here because you know the apocalypse comes you know all the all the Glocks and 90 Elevens and cigs and XD's and Walters and H and Kay's might not be any ammo to shooting those so might have to resort back to tools like this so I'll get back to my training and I'll let you guys get back to watching videos thank you

Channel: hickok45

Views: 1,978,461

Rating: 4.8603354 out of 5

Keywords: Marlin TDL, Henry loading gate, .30-30, levergun, lever gun, Marlin .30-30, Henry Repeating Rifles, lever action, Marlin

Id: ednu0Na_xXM

Length: 26min 9sec (1569 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 23 2019