NGD Henry AR-7

[Don Lovel]

Checked out a local Dick's store while looking for ammunition and they had a blemished Henry AR-7, price $209, discounted for the mark on the stock, $206 out the door. But while they had probably 200 boxes of CCI & WInchester .22 Mag ammo, all the 22lr was a Remington accessory pack with oil can & rag and some 22 shells for $30. I hated cheap Remington 22 ammo cause it is real dirty and not that good in my experience over the years. But the Survival rifle should be fun to play with, I need to round up a cool little red dot scope for it next and a couple more mags
Fits nicely under the passenger seat of my Jeep when stowed in the stock

 

[bikiboki]

I think you'll really enjoy the AR-7. Wife and I were looking at a take-down 10/22 for awhile, and we came across the little Henry at a gun show. She liked the way everything stored in the stock...so we bought one. It's light...very light, but a great little shooter. I did put a Red Dot on it and enjoy that when I shoot it...wife shoots iron sights...and I do have to admit that she's deadly accurate with it that way. Enjoy!

Bill

 

[Snake45]

I have a Charter-made one I paid $100 for a few years ago. It's sometimes spotty in reliability, but a lot of fun when it works. The barrel was bent when I bought it--I just bent it back so it would shoot to POA with the sights more or less centered (the front sight is drift-adjustable, and the rear can adjust for elevation). Not the most accurate .22 in my battery. I modified the molded-in rib to make it a dovetail to take standard .22 tip-off mounts.

 

[2Late45]

Don't laugh now. I got mine a while ago through the J.C. Penny mail-order. It was $79.00 out the catalog center door. The plastic shock-buffer broke, and a friend made a new one for me out of a flat-washer and some drill-rod. All the kids loved shooting it, the Charter Arms AR-7 never seemed to enjoy a huge following, but for the cost, and realizing what it was meant to do...

After 37 years and countless bricks of .22. it's still a minute of cotton-tail at 15 > 20 yards. Even with the extra ounce of steel, it still floats...

 

[bentblade]

I think you'll really enjoy the AR-7. Wife and I were looking at a take-down 10/22 for awhile, and we came across the little Henry at a gun show. She liked the way everything stored in the stock...so we bought one. It's light...very light, but a great little shooter. I did put a Red Dot on it and enjoy that when I shoot it...wife shoots iron sights...and I do have to admit that she's deadly accurate with it that way. Enjoy!

Bill

Funny you should say that, I also had a charter that would shoot around corners, couldn't hit squat with it. I took it home to clean it and when I looked down the bore after running a patch through it I couldn't see through the barrel, the barrel liner was bent that much. I would have returned it but it was stolen shortly after that.

 

[coach]

I got one by Henry a while back for maybe $150.
It has a number of memorable features of any gun I own.

Worse trigger by far.

It can't shoot more than a mag or maybe 2 without jamming.

Probably the hardest gun to to reassemble of any I've taken apart. To be fair, I wouldn't have taken it apart if not for the jamming.

Accuracy is on par with a short barrel .22 pistol although that could be a combination of the trigger and sights.

It seemed like an interesting concept, but mine leaves a lot to be desired. The jamming makes me leave it in the safe.

 

[george preston]

Didn't marlin make one for awhile?

 

[Snake45]

Didn't marlin make one for awhile?

They made a takedown version of the Model 60, and it came with a case that supposedly floated.

 

[m657]

Had the luxury of 'extended borrowing' of a friends AR7 circa 1978.

While some features were enjoyable (storage) the primitive sights, gritty trigger and the lamentable 7(?) round proprietary magazine didn't overcome what proved to be an inaccurate if lovable unnecessary excuse to buy another ballistic experiment.

When the buddy hinted pointedly he'd take $60 for it I gave it back to him.

Over the years I've picked up many with the intent of buying one but never have.

On the other hand, the Ruger TD10/22 meets my needs when on garden bunny patrol.
Works well in Steel Challenge also. It fits perfectly with other essential in my bolted down Jeep possibles-box.

 

[Snake45]

I'll concur that the AR-7 is a pretty lame substitute for a real .22 rifle.

Still, if you don't have one, life seems a little emptier somehow.... :? :? :? :wink: :lol:

 

[RSIno1]

Bought a Charter Arms one in the mid 70s for the daughters first rifle. Shoots OK she's still got it. Think I paid about $40-50.

 

[WAYNO]

I s'pose the concept has integrity, but I was never impressed with the product.

If a guy wanted to carry one of these in a boat or an airplane, or even in a wheeled vehicle, it just might survive a catastrophe where other guns would not. But this gun would never serve me to be actually used in any other scenario. It's a survival gun, meant to be used only if you have nothing else. If a feller owns one, shoots it and actually enjoys it, then I'm pleased for them. :mrgreen:

WAYNO.

 

[pyth0n]

Checked out a local Dick's store while looking for ammunition and they had a blemished Henry AR-7, price $209, discounted for the mark on the stock, $206 out the door. But while they had probably 200 boxes of CCI & WInchester .22 Mag ammo, all the 22lr was a Remington accessory pack with oil can & rag and some 22 shells for $30. I hated cheap Remington 22 ammo cause it is real dirty and not that good in my experience over the years. But the Survival rifle should be fun to play with, I need to round up a cool little red dot scope for it next and a couple more mags
Fits nicely under the passenger seat of my Jeep when stowed in the stock

NGD?

 

[No-1]

If a guy wanted to carry one of these in a boat or an airplane, or even in a wheeled vehicle, it just might survive a catastrophe where other guns would not.

After all it was developed by Eugene Stoner and adopted as the Air Force survival rifle.

 

[WAYNO]

If a guy wanted to carry one of these in a boat or an airplane, or even in a wheeled vehicle, it just might survive a catastrophe where other guns would not.

After all it was developed by Eugene Stoner and adopted as the Air Force survival rifle.

But was it ever adopted by the Air Force? I find no substantiation that it was. And the only survival gun I personally know of that was used by the Air Force in my lifetime was the M6.

Not that any of it matters. It could still serve folks for this purpose.

WAYNO.

 

[eveled]

I wish Ruger had made the 10/22 takedown more like the AR7, have it break down and stow into a floating stock, and have 10/22 reliability.

 

[mohavesam]

Ahhhh... the AR7. First select-fire rifle I ever owned!
Tap the rigger for a single-well-placed shot. A yank on the trigger would invariably empty the little magazine! We knew not to get caught with it even back then (I was about 14?) but it would straffe frogs in the swamp with aplomb.