Henry Rifle

About the Henry Rifle

The Henry repeating rifle is a lever-action, breech-loading, tubular magazine rifle famed both for its use at Little Big Horn and being the basis for the iconic Winchester rifle of the American Wild West. Designed by Benjamin Tyler Henry in 1860, "the Henry" was introduced in the early 1860's and produced through 1866 in the United States by the New Haven Arms Company. It was adopted in small quantities by the Union in the Civil War, favored for its greater firepower than the standard issue carbine. Many later found their way West, notably in the hands of the Sioux and Cheyenne in their obliteration of Custer's U.S. Cavalry troops in June 1876. The original Henry rifle was a sixteen shot .44 caliber rim-fire, lever-action, breech-loading rifle. While never issued on a large scale, the Henry rifle demonstrated its advantages of rapid fire at close range several times in the Civil War and later during the wars against the Plains Indians.

In Fistful of Frags

As off all rifles it requires precision shots, but it's less punishing if you miss, unlike other guns of this category. The Henry Rifle's greatest advantage is probably its versatility. You can be effective with it at all distances, if you are good shot. If your not a good shot, you could have a lot of problems. As it's rate of fire is low and reloading all 16 shots takes a tedious 20 seconds. (Just partial reload.) But again, It's not that uncompromising as other rifles. Also it's easier to survive encounters with two-three dudes, but it's still advisable to not get in this situation. Like other rifles the best way to use this would be to find a camping spot and pick people off. A close range chest shot will deal around 70 damage but as you will be using this at range, you will averagely get around 50's. Surprising Fact: The Henry Rifle is actually more accurate than the Smith Carbine across the map leaving a smaller spread on a flat target. This Rifle can be found in the Red Chest and Gives +7 Notoriety Per Kill.