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HI-HO, SILVER!

The 6.5 Creedmoor, the world’s most popular rifle cartridge choice, doesn’t need any help making new friends. Regardless, Henry Repeating Arms, a company that prides itself on its all-American firearms’ “DNA,” did just that when it introduced the low-recoiling, flat-shooting, .264-caliber cartridge to one of America’s final firearms frontier void of the Creedmoor hype. It was a good idea.

You’re welcome, lever-action crowd.

Henry’s firearms platform-of-choice for this introduction, the Long Ranger, made perfect sense to me. The Long Ranger is the red-headed stepchild of the lever-action rifle world, because it feeds its action cartridges from a box magazine instead of a tube.

Now, the folks at Henry absolutely know how to make fantastic traditional, tube-fed lever-action rifles, but that’s not really the

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