I thought I would share my experience with my Henry 45 70. I live in Anchorage, Alaska by the Chugach National Forest and regularly have moose, black, and brown bears walk through my yard. My neighbor killed a brown bear in his yard a year and a half ago and I had an encounter with a black bear about 8 months ago. I bought the Henry as a bear defense rifle for my house, knowing that my kids are in the yard all the time and I may need something reliable for defense. I took the Henry to the range and fired 10 rounds through it the first time I took it out. Five rounds were leverevolution 325 grain and 5 rounds were Buffalo Bore 430 grain. The action was not smooth on this rifle and for a couple of rounds, the lever would not completely close. However, the rifle was very accurate and the recoil was much more tolerable than I expected. I assumed the bullet didn't smoothly load into the chamber was because the rifle was new and not yet broken in so I didn't shoot any more rounds through it on this trip. I took it home, cleaned it, and took it back to the range on another trip. I loaded three leverevolution rounds through the magazine and tried to lever one into the chamber. Again, the lever wouldn't close so I unloaded it, reloaded it, and this time it loaded without issue. I fired two rounds when I noticed a different sight picture on the third round. The tubular magazine somehow slid forward about three inches past the end of the barrel. I unloaded it, took it home and contacted Henry RAC. Within an hour after I contacted them, they provided me with a shipping label to return the rifle to them. Their turnaround was much quicker than I expected, less than two weeks. In fact, the turnaround was so quick that they didn't even feel it was necessary to give me a heads up to let me know that the rifle was on it's way back. I also wasn't too happy that the rifle was returned to me with an extra hole through the finish and into the buttstock where they obviously clamped it into their vise a little too tightly during their repair. I have to say that my overall impression of this rifle is not very positive at all and I definitely don't have the confidence in this rifle to use it in any kind of defensive situation, My Ruger Toklat 454 now serves that purpose. However, I will use the Henry for target practice and provide an update in the near future. My Henry was a big disappointment to me as I'm a HUGE "made in America" fan.