I had a Charter AR7 that I picked up used at a local pawn shop several years back. It was very reliable with both mags that came with it. Always wished I'd have kept it.

Are you about 70 years old? Trying to do the math

​@Frisc0 Strangler Are you about 15? A small boy maybe?

@@lightweight1974 I’m 38. I was trying to do the math at how old a person would be today that bought this rifle in 78’. I’m a big boy, probably bigger than you. Don’t be so sensitive, Sally.

@@frisc0strangler207 that was 45 years ago.

Thank you for relaying this very important lesson to my viewers. I currently have a semiauto carbine with a bulged barrel due to a round being fired after a bullet got stuck in the bore. Thankfully the carbine didn't blow up and I hope to do a video on this carbine in the near future.

That's not a dud. That's a squib. Last squib round I had was a .32 ACP half way down the barrel. Knocked it out with a cleaning rod and a piece of wood right at the range. Ran just fine after that. Wasn't a big deal. Then again, it wasn't a rifle round and it was only about an inch an a quarter of barrel to work through.

Nice leson, fine teacher. Thanks.

You are very welcome and thank you for watching my video.

Go Fish. THE BEST hands down.

junk jam-o-matic POS

@@tzackaria7 , The first versions out were. Got way better later. Using good ammo & properly caring for them counts too. Like a card oil. Even crappy cars lasted if they were maintained properly. Most folks who bitch about lousy performance are the same clowns who are lazy & DONT maintain their equipment.

@@tristantimothy1004 couldn’t agree more 👍

Now that sounds like a plan.....

I do the same, keep it behind the seat of my PU truck.

Yeah,I need to go ahead and get myself one of these.

Great find.

put a small spacer between the trigger assy. and the lower part of the mag. the slight angle will pretty much eliminate the failures to feed.

Hello Emmett. I'm glad to hear that you bought a Henry AR-7 and that my video was able to help you put it back together. I also want to thank you for subscribing to my channel. Enjoy your Henry and thanks for the feedback on my video.

@@mixup98 My pleasure. You covered everything anyone could want to know about the Henry AR7. There’s so many crappy videos out there that don’t tell you much. And after watching you shoot it I’m extremely excited to go ring some steel with it. I can’t wait to check out your other videos.

I did the same thing! Manual wasn't very detailed. An UH-OH moment. Went back together fine. Way easier to clean than my Mossberg 715t.

@@bobhilker8921 Exactly! The manual basically says push here, pull there, take the sh*t out and reassemble in reverse order. It said nothing about the guide rods being a one piece assembly. I looked up in there and saw them all cockeyed and went into panic mode. It was super simple after watching this video.

Wow thats a lotta snakes

Man that sounds like a FUN time!

@@joshtiscareno1312 , Was! Our 1st day moving in we saw the neighbors having a big spring celebration. Many families showed up. They all left to go their favorite spot for their spring get together. One of their bits was for all the kids to line up & race to their pond. 1st one in the water won a prize. The tallest, fastest kid easily outran the others, hit the diving board & in midair started screaming " Keep out! Keep out!" Rest of the kids stopped as he hit the water. There was a water moccasin mating ball in the pond & he jumped right into the middle of it. Got over 1000 bites. Back at our place we saw 2 pickups come racing back, the men jumped out, grabbed guns & a case of stump dynamite & left in a big hurry. My wife/I still moving in heard tons of shooting & a couple blasts of the dynamite way off in the distance. Couple hours later all the vehicles came slowly back. The women were hysterical, the men crying, the kids all in shock. ( This was out in Texas farming country) An ambulance showed up. Loaded the boys body up & left. The families left. Remaining family was obviously NOT happy as they all were when they 1st left. Next day we met the next door neighbors. They told us what happened. The creek that ran through our back property & there's was the creek that connected Lake Ray Hubbard & Lake Lavon & fed that pond too. They had NEVER seen any snakes in that pond ever after years of going there. They had dynamited the pond to get the boys body out by blowing a side out & kill the rest of the snakes in it after shooting as many as they could before blowing the pond. For me, THAT was WAR against the snakes. I spent every day from sunup to sundown walking that creek & killing every snake I saw. There was TONS of those damn things in it. Had to wear snake chap pants for the rattlers in the fields I walked through. Lots of those too but not nearly as many as the damned water moccasins. Out in the fields the farmers put fleece lined, hinged stovepipes on their horses legs when out riding to keep the rattlers from getting their horses. Shot those suckers too when we went out riding in the wheat fields. I carried 2 AR-7s. Had a backpack filled with loaded mags

​@@davestationuk7374, Was swamp bottom prime farming country w a creek that ran for miles in both directions. Walking the banks w an AR-7 in each hand & a small backpack filled with loaded mags I could shoot those lil rifles like pistols up close & sling one back to aim for the longer shots using just 1 rifle. Id tape 3 mags together, 2 up, 1 down. Could switch from one to the other in seconds. Did have to boil out the actions every few days to clean out the powder residues but a quick oiling job & good to go for another snake hunt.

​@@joshtiscareno1312, Was more of a duty than fun. A neighbors son was killed when he jumped into a local pond with a water moccasin mating ball in it. For me, that was WAR. Hated those damn snakes. Creek was muddy but I learned to read the pressure waves on the surface when they dove & shot a foot ahead of the pressure wall. Usually hit them in the head. Could tell if it was a good hit by the thrashing or blood in the water. Didn't have to see em dead, knew once wounded they'd sink & the snapping turtles would eat em. Had lots of turtles in that creek too. Farmers told me NOT to swim in that creek. The snappers would take chunks out of me & if a big one latched on they'd drown & eat me too. Fishing was good. Never knew what would hit. Turtles, catfish & bass of all sorts. Some pike & spring White bass mating runs. Interesting place to live.

A Henry .22 lever action take-down would be awesome. Are you listening Henry?

Don't be lazy don't need a take down barrel to clean a gun

Good to hear from you hit man hank. I also take up a little more space than my Henry rifle 👍😁

I love .22 rimfire pistols and rifles and in the near future I will do a review on my old Winchester Model 63. 👍🤠

I noticed that.

He's in a canyon so it sounds crazy

I love the echo and ricochet sounds in his videos.

Your feedback on my video is also appreciated.....thank you David.

Yes, good idea to wait ten seconds. What's it called? Hang fire? Has anyone ever experienced one of these? I have a Jennings J-22 that is very reliable, though once I cycled it live round, and when I released it, it went BANG! Put a nice little hole in the wall.

@@johnroberts6695 May be the first time in history anybody outside of the Jennings marketing department has used the words "Jennings J-22" and "reliable" in the same sentence.

I like the Aquila too. I run those through my Rugar AR556 using the CMMG. Rock and roll a full mag, never a miss. Run the Remington through my Henry Evil Roy, never a miss, though did have a casing stick sideways for some reason, got hung up on the ejector.

@@acdii Thanx for the info acd. You should try the CCI Stingers: 1600 feet per second- CCI mini mags only go 400fps… Coated hollow point LRs seem to work pretty good in all 22 carbines & pistols. Ciao Bro 😎

If your application allows using very lightweight bullets, those CCI’s are great.

@@blackhawk7r221 thanx for your input BH7R! CCI (Speer) makes the best ammo, like the 22lr minimags or the 115g FMJ 9er range rounds. Luv their Aluminum case 230g! Clean & Reliable like Fiocchi, Aquila & Norma. I find Federal, Winchester and Remington range rounds to be filthy most of the time, but affordable. Vaya Con Dios Mi Hermano😎!

It's a survival rifle and CCI Stingers are sudden death on squirrels and rabbits. I use them in a 10-22 and they are accurate in mine. CCI is my go to ammunition. I'm 76yo and the only misfiring 22lr ammo I've ever had has been Winchester. As an aside Stingers lose some accuracy in Marlins Micro Groove rifling as they have a shorter bearing surface. Remington Yellow Jackets work great in Marlins.

Awesome comment Steve, and no, I won't ever change, and I hope you continue to watch my videos for many years.

You are very welcome Tommy and I thank you for the very nice comment, and compliments. I love making my videos and comments like yours are a pleasure to read. Thanks again and have a great weekend.

Over the last five decades I have owned several Marlin Model 60 .22 rifles and I always wanted a Papoose (which is based on the Model 60) but I never found one for sale. Maybe someday I will find a nice one at a pawn shop or gun show, buy it, and do a review on it.

@@mixup98 I wish you the best of luck finding one. WHEN you do, grab it and don't look back! Pay for it, of course, LOL. You will love it, I promise.

Hello Tom. I will keep making my videos as long as you guys keep watching them. Thanks for the recent sub to my channel....much appreciated.

As did the Federal Punch. You're right, CCI is excellent ammo.

Been using the Stinger for years. All I use. Great ammo

@@paulp.6399 picked up a box of the punch in various calibers, the 10mm didn’t seem up to par to actual 10, but the 9 and 22 were solid.

It doesn't like the lead round nose ammo.

Stingers sound hot in any rifle.

My son and I love making these videos and we love reading comments like yours. It takes a lot of time, effect and money to shoot and edit our videos but comments like yours make it all worth it. Thank you for the awesome comment and we hope you have a great weekend.

From everything I have heard the Charter Arms versions were not that good. I have a Henry that runs great.

Good morning Don-Kruse. You're right, the AR-7 is an excellent gun to introduce to new shooters. I like to keep my Henry behind the seat of my off-road vehicle. with a few boxes of .22 ammo. Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment on my video.

My brother and I also had the Charter Arms version back in the mid-70s and they too were horrible. Henry did a great job with fixing the short-comings of the earlier AR-7 rifle.

@@mixup98 I have one of these that was made by Armalite I bought it in the early 70's for about $35.00. I think Armalite was the first producer of these. It was called the AR-7 Exprorer.

@@morbward8281 You're right, Armalite was the first producer of this rifle, which was designed by Eugene Stoner, the same guy that developed the AR-15 rifle. The Charter Arms AR-7 that we bought back in the '70s cost $69, brand new. We sold them months later for fifty bucks each!

I just say I bought the gun on a payment plan. So far I've only paid off the stock.😆

If you buy one for your daughter's birthday please let us know her thoughts after shooting it. I have a feeling she is going to love it.

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If you've watched From Russia with Love (James Bond), you've seen this rifle before!

Feeding issues is usually the mags. Put a little piece of felt or something, in the front of trigger guard, to give the mag just a slight angle adjustment...this is mostly the issue on older Charter Arms etc. ones... called it Tooth pick method/fix, in the bush, I had put a little branch behind the mag..& it wouldn't jam..

On my charter arms I found that wrapping electrical tape around the bottom of the magazine changed the feed angle enough to dramatically improve reliability.

@@owllymannstein7113 I had the same thing with my Charter Arms. The angle of the mag was the difference between a reliable feed and a mis-feed. It sounds like Henry fixed that.

No military knowingly arms it's service members with bad firearms! Armalite did a great job, but others may have scrimped on QC (not Henry).

Feeding issues is usually the mags. Put a little piece of felt or something, in the front of trigger guard, to give the mag just a slight angle adjustment...this is mostly the issue on older Charter Arms/Armalite etc. ones... called it Tooth pick method/fix, in the bush, I had put a little branch behind the mag..& it wouldn't jam..I have a Henry now..& don't have to do this.

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the piece of tin rear sight is worse

And yet as cheap and junky as they are, work surprisingly well!

I swear it sounds exactly like the classic western ricochet sounds, super cool 😂

Sgt Troy!! Yesss!

I still have mine. Only paid $35.00 for it at the Navy exchange in the early 70's. Nice little gun.

Did you mean 5" instead of 5'? A 5 foot target would be pretty big!

@@geraldschrader8511 Yeah, thanks. A front sight that obscures 5 feet at 100yds would be pretty chunky.

That's the case with pretty much every 22 semi auto

My favorite of the James Bond movies.

Yeah, but he had the .25 calibre version. Been looking for one in .25 calibre for decades and haven't found one, yet. 😂😆🤣

@@grigorirasputin5020 And a brown furniture like the other original AR rifles.

I believe the rifle that James Bond's used was supposedly chambered in .25 caliber 👍😁