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There is also no historical justification for shooting blanks at Gettysburg. The point is, this is a reenactment and blanks are fired which also means that there is very little reaction to being...

Actually there is more "blow-back" with a blank round. Since blanks do not develop the higher pressure of live rounds the chamber is not sealed and there is "blow-back". This does effect the...

I like the .44-40 better for reenacting. With that said there is not a real advantage over the .45 Colt caliber. By converting my Henry rifle to use blanks made from .44 mag cases I can get a true 16...

The Henry Repeating Arms Company is planning on releasing an "American Made" Civil War Henry replica sometime this Spring. The price will be a little on the high side, rumored at $1750 to as high as...

I went to a Civil War event at French Lick back in 1984 or 1985, it was probably actually held at West Baden. I remember that they had flea markets inside the atrium of the West Baden building. ...

It is intersting to note Special Order Number 26 from General John Crose concerning ammunition for those regiments armed with Henry repeating rifles. He orders a wagon load of ammunition for each...

Fouling would have been a definate problem. Maybe a question for those that do fire their musket with projectiles is how many shots does it take for a musket to foul out.

It is interesting in a...

Charles I watched your video and it looked very good. Looks to be an easy loading process and about the same as I did when I loaded the ones that you gave me to try. They look like they function...

The Civil War was not all about contolled company fire. Just a few examples would include the fight atop Little Round Top, Devils Den, Shiloh, Franklin, Chickamauga, Alatoona Pass, Bentonville and...

It is hard to have a recreation of a battle with very little or no "trigger time". In fact it looks about as ridiculous as no hits. I have heard tells of people going to "events" where battles were...

They offer a low cost blank for the Spencer. I could only get about 10 grains of powder in the case. I had cases split lenghtwise. The chamber fowled after a few rounds. I did have some issues with...

Unfortunately very little information has been uncovered about how men armed with Henry rifles carried their ammunition. There is a lot of speculation but almost no documented sources. There were...

A lot of good questions. Many of the answers are found in the document http://44henryrifle.webs.com/civilwarusage.htm as well as the entire webpage concerning the Henry rifle. As to deployment or...

It is always great to see new people at events. Bentonville 2010 was one of those events as I met several super people. Mike thank you for the kind words, we fielded 23 Henry rifles in our unit with...

I know that event planners do try to have enough of everything for the event but sometimes unforseen problems do happen. Being an old Eagle Scout(1968) I learned a long time ago to plan for the...

I had looked forward to this event for a long while. The WSS had a strong turnout for the event at 26 members of the Western Sharpshooters. It added a touch to the athenticity of the event to see...

A Spencer in .56-50 is great choice for cheap blanks if you can make your own, and not too expensive if you don't.
http://44henryrifle.webs.com/spencerrifleblanks.htm

In 1991 At Bentonville, NC(It think it was really at Washington) we had 15 men armed with Henry Repeating Rifles. This was I think one of the first time that CS troops ran into a large group of men...

I guess to quote you "I dont not mean to be a wise cracker" but did you read the information on the Spencer blanks on the webpage? If you had you would have known that it is all about making blanks...

I think we surprised a lot of people that we were real yankees, several asked where we were from. My first trip to Franklin was back in 1989 and I think we had 10 Henry rifles there. It was also...

Thank you to those that attended the Franklin event. States of PA, MI, IN, IL, GA, VA, TN, OH were represented.

Bill is your Spencer a reproduction or an original?

I will look forward to seeing you. I wll bring a few with me.

I know that it is a little late but if anyone wants to put their Henry Rifle to use with a company of men armed with Henry rifles contact me. I think our company is up around 20 right now, mostly...

As a follow up to this thread: Has anybody tried any of these .56-50 blanks in your Spencer? If so how did they work for you and how many have you shot? I know those of us that now include 4 have...