[SHOT 2025] Henry Goes Lightweight With Carbon-Fiber Barrels

By Zac K

Lever-actions are still going through a massive resurgence in popularity. For evidence, look no further than the Henry Repeating Arms booth at SHOT Show’s range day, where they were displaying a next-generation rifle based off their existing lever-action, but with a carbon-fiber barrel.Henry lever-actions @ TFB: Henry Repeating Arms – New Original Henry Deluxe Engraved 25th Anniversary Edition [SHOT 2024] Henry Lever Action Supreme: A Cowboy Rifle With AR Mags Henry Announces 100th Anniversary Border Patrol Commemorative Rifles New Henry Big Boy Carbine Ghost Ring Sights from XS SightsSpace-age cowboy gunFrom 50 yards away, you might not notice this new carbon-fiber Henry is a space cowboy firearm. You can see it has modern-style furniture up front, but that buttstock is built along classic lines, and it’s even made of wood (laminated wood, but wood nevertheless).

Get up close, though, and you see the barrel is carbon fiber wrapped around a steel liner, with an aluminum handguard that

Source: The Firearm Blog