![]() Lucky me, I was the only one there when the truck arrived. When I used to work in a gunshop, the store once bought 105 brand-name shotguns in one purchase. Of all the attentions to detail, the sorting and grading of wood impressed me the most. When the stock goes onto a rifle, the sock stays on the stock until the rifle goes into a shipping box. Ocks," felt bags with elastic around the opening. They spend the time to match fore-ends and buttstocks so your Henry looks right. Before the assembly crew gets to the task of building rifles, they sort wood. Pins and springs, things like that, come from suppliers. But after inspection, they have the engagement surfaces surface-ground in-house before they get blued. The hammers and sears, for instance, arrive from a subcontractor. Not everything is made right there in Brooklyn. The castings are inspected before, during and after they are machined and polished. Like the steel (and everything else in the Henry Repeating rifle catalog), the brass castings are made in America. Anthony simply told his engineers to find an alloy that was up to the job and someone who made it. There are brass alloys with tensile and yield strengths as good as or better than steels commonly used in firearms manufacturing. You'd think brass is soft, right? On this use you'd be wrong. You might wonder about the brass frame of the Big Boy. The barrel chambers are reamed and polished before installation (easy, with the CNC machines making the thread and shoulder dimensions perfect), then after the barrel is screwed into the receiver, headspace is checked again. The inspection station has an array of gauging fixtures, and the woman I saw gauging that day is very practiced. ![]() ![]() Bolts are hand-inspected and gauged after machining-every one. After yet more inspections they go off to one of the many CNC machines, where they are profiled.ĭifferent steel (all their steel is made in America), which arrives as rectangular stock, goes to other CNC-machining stations to be turned into bolts. Once the barrel blanks are drilled, they're reamed, honed and button-rifled. These are obviously well-cared-for machines, lovingly maintained. They were taking blanked-off sections of barrel steel and feeding them into Pratt & Whitney deep-drill machines dating from the 1940s. ![]()
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