Originally Posted By: Bob Saathoff
Buckstix,
How does the take-down feature work? It doesn't appear to be an interrupted thread so does it screw in all the way and then have a lever or crosspin that holds it? Your second picture down on this page shows some sort of system that has a screw for a stop. Does that piece hanging out on the front rotate about 180 degrees to lock the barrel in place?


Hello Bob,

Below are pictures that show step-by-step, how the rifle is assembled from the take-down state as stored in the case. The barrel is tapered at the breech and it fits into a matching "cone" at the front of the action. The pivot lug on the barrel is also tapered, and it fits into the matching tapered well of the action under-lug. A lever on the under-lug secures it, and locks it in place. A very simple and very positive locking mechanism. Both bevels are pressed into place with no "wiggle" to be felt. The rifle's zero has never changed since I started test firing it.

It takes longer to read the procedure here, than it takes to actually do the assembly.

Disassembly is simply in reverse order.

Since I'm an R&D Design Engineer, I can only marvel at the Brilliance of Alex Henry and his designs. I've been around guns my whole life and its the best take-down rifle mechanism I've ever seen, and I wish I would have invented it.


















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