Henry Survival Rifle Review (AR-7) 

He's looking really good actually

hes kicking ass and i love it

Amen Brother

His voice sounds good.

I think they pre-recorded alot of content before he got too far gone. Thats why there seems to such differences in his appearance . I hope im wrong, and this is the most recent. If anyone could beat pancreatic cancer, it would be Paul. I pray God keeps him here, with everything going on, we desperately need men like him.

Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.” -Vice President Thomas Marshall Grim Reaper be like, Um, this guy is way more armed that Teddy, I gotta plan this out just right.

The mighty Pop Tart is keeping him well. All hail Pop Tart.

It's the quality ingredients, baked right in... Good to see you looking better, Paul! SEMPRE FI

Down by the river Paul . . watching for opps floating by

The mental fortitude........off the charts

You can tell they are a good family.

We should all be so fortunate.

Ditto

This is so well said. Thank you for saying what most of us are thinking.

😂

💗

“Not bad at all.”

❤😂😊

AMEN!

Too bad the western medical system is a business, there's no profit in cures, but cures for cancer are out there, even terminal cancer.

Jesus is tough !

That's how the U.S.M.C. makes em

@@EDD519 That goes without question.

When Chuck Norris needs advice, he calls Paul

Could you explain what you guys are talking about?

@@uclajdlimited run fund raiser t-shirt that helped Paul with his cancer expenses, was out on by another YT personality, Johnny B.

..I. bought a T shirt..glad that it helped

I think there was something medicinal about that 20 year old poptart he dug up and ate a while back

He's been partying in strip clubs, tipping benjamins while drinking a half gallon a day

​@AlexE5250 the preservatives slowed down his cancer or possibly stopped it...

​@@AlexE5250mre said 2001 and the mre manufacturers date was probably 5 years prior to 2001 so that pop tart is more like 30 years old

I enjoy John as a host and I do appreciate his input on the range, I do hope he comes into his own on this channel.

I thought the same thing 🙂 he looked so nervous. Lucky for him that usually Paul's followers are some of the more civilized i have experienced on youtube. keep at it, find a comfortable solution for what to do with your hands and the rest will come with practice.

John is doing a great job, any friend of Paul is a friend of ours!

John is doing a great job. Thank you for supporting and helping Paul with his videos. Also great to see Paul looking good. Continued prayers for his healing..❤

Some people just don’t like being on camera 🤷🏼‍♂️

Amen!

@@triggerbarPhD next time I find myself sucking on the range I will remember how good Paul is, while battling cancer, in pain, healing from a broken hip, and pull my act together

The brown bottle next to the isopropyl alcohol is the secret.

@@thystaff742 as far as im concerned whatever pharmacutical you feel like downing like M&Ms at that point is fair game if it keeps him up and kicking ass

@@therideneverends1697 pharmakia isn't about healing, only suppressing the symptoms.

Def looks better. Got his color back and more vigor.

He's the one of the goats of gun channels and human beings

Ditto. My AR-7 was picky as all hell new out-of-the-box, even after a preliminary clean/lube. I tried something other than CCI after break-in/wear-in and will only use CCI from here on out. I found the assembly pretty easy and slick. Just have to have the receiver retention screw as far back as it will travel, seat the receiver, screw it together. Old mechanic's trick : turn the screw backwards until you feel it drop into the first thread.

My Henry hates Remington Golden bullets. Absolutely loves 40gr round nose

@@martinsonofwar395the golden bullets work the best in mine 😂 never had one jam with that one. Anything non plated is an absolute no go for me.

I haven’t shot my Charter Arms AR7 in, well, forever. I didn’t experience malfunctions that I can recall. Food of choice was Mini Mags. I’m thinking it’s time to haul it out, give it a clean and toss it in a briefcase and go all 007……

not gonna lie, it would've been pretty cool (and funny at the same time) if Paul Harrell did a team video with Clint Smith of "Thunder Ranch", considering they're both retired law enforcement officers and Smith being a Vietnam Veteran on top of it.

Thank you! That is important news! Those expert shooters could have mentioned that pushing your shoulder farther forward makes the peep sight TIGHTER for a more precise aim. Or maybe they take that for granted and did it already?..........................elsullo

The Paul brothers? 😅

@@KeilGries Hey, I fixed it.

To his credit, it can be a bit of a pain to get the receiver screw started in my experience.

I laughed my head off 😂.

That and him figuring out how to hold the Henry and keep his thumb away from the ejection port! 🤦‍♂🤣🤣🤣🤣

I think having his microphone pick up so much of the handling noise added to the comedy aspect a bit. But still, good show, gentlemen.

To be fair, those things are kind of clunky to assemble.

Yep. We live in a time now of excuses for coming up short: every time someone does OK, it's by their supposed prowess; every time they come up short, it tends to be someone else's fault. Our culture needs to grow up. We have people in their 50s and 60s that think essentially like six and seven year olds.

Amen. Two skilled and talented brothers. I'm surprised they didn't team up on this channel a long time ago.

Roy is doing awesome

Yep, definitely my favorite format.

We are all so lucky that we have the Harrell brothers and their team making videos for us. Educational, entertaining and they make us feel like we are all friends and family here.

Yeah, that is because both are wearing mics. I've worked on RU-vid videos with friends and ran into that issue when cordless mics had different latency.

My guess is they both had a mic and they were both recording so you can hear Paul talking twice, once from each mic

A very underrated album.

In the edit they should just mute whatever mic is on the person not talking

​@@workingcountry1776 That can be a part of it. Also keep in mind the mics are omni, so they'll easily pick up both voices, which are different distances to the source. That is mainly what we are hearing. If you want to isolate voices for each mic, you need cardioid mics.

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Dag gone, that's tough!!! Any reasons on why it happened? I'm not trying to pry, only conversate a bit and bounce ideas. The heart is an absolutely amazing little machine, and the mere stoppage of such a what should be unstoppable machine is a death sentence!! I try and take care of my ticker, but Lord knows I could do much better.

@josephkirklandsr9221 stay strong, Brother

@@risenfromyoutubesashesagai6302 too much cholesterol in the pipes. I didn't listen to my Drs. I also smoked 2 pks a day for 40 yrs on and off. I stopped smoking the day after the widow maker and haven't touched another

I was going to say that Paul looked good today.

November 2022. Emergency by-pass surgery. Doc said I should be dead. 100% blockage, but I had a lot of collateral arterial growth from lots of cardio. I walked to the ambulance... EKG was normal. We're still kicking dirt and sucking air my friend. Enjoy at least one thing every day, even if it's just looking at the trees blowing in the wind. The world is wonderful and our time is limited, as you already know.

Don’t get too excited. This was most likely pre-recorded before Paul’s condition got too severe.

​@@imperialbricks1977Bullshit. The weather matches.

Hell*

Remember Toby Keith? He started looking and acting better too. ENJOY EACH AND EVERY VIDEO PAUL PUTS OUT.

9:05 I just want to say that was one of the most genuine thanks I’ve ever witnessed. Paul you are a role model and a stand up citizen. Men should aspire to be more like you.

Left a gun show with a friend years ago. He had bought a new recoil spring n guide rod for his officer model 1911. He decides to change it out while im driving. Launches the original spring assembly into my windshield on my less than a year old truck. Put a crack in it that eventually ran across the windshield. Friends are great. Brothers too.

As someone with a couple friends who do suspension work, that is a hilarious terrifying prospect to imagine. 😂

I launched a recoil spring plug from a 1911 across a room several decades ago. 😮 It hit a window but didn't chip or crack it thank God. I always wear eye pro when disassembling anything under spring tension.

I replaced the rear sight on my 92fs. Removed the safety to get it off and well, the safety detent and spring went "boing!" lost forever in the carpet. From that day onward i'v decided if I ever become rich, I will make the spring room. It would be a small, very well lit and completely white room with no cracks anywhere so when I inevitably launch a spring again, I will be able to find it.... Also did that with a luger main spring, launching the part that holds the spring in place... found it after about 2 hours of searching. At least that part is a good bit larger haha.

@@MrSolLeks i have used an aquarium turned upside down with a towel spread out under it on handguns. Works good for detent balls and small spring loaded parts. Hard to do an ar receiver but it usually catches the parts.

That is good to know about a company.

I have two of the Charter Arm’s versions that people love to complain about. Like any 22LR, use decent ammo, and keep reasonably clean takes care of most problems. These two are a small sample but after 40+ years they chug along just fine with the original magazines. They are also supposed to float. After seeing a friend lose his inherited grandpas rifle (and grandma’s frying pan & paddle) during a late night canoe roll over. Suddenly the AR-7 looked a lot more attractive, and could double as paddle.

I have one made by Charter Arms from the early 80's and I have never had a problem with reliability. I bought it new and still have it. I think it was $100 or so back in the day.

These rifles are neat looking, but I question the practicality of them. Wouldn't a good long barreled .22 revolver be more practical than a takedown rifle with no handguard? They're even more compact and .22 revolvers are typically not ammunition sensitive.

but, how many pisyol shooters can match the accuracy of an average, or brlow-average rifle shooter at 25 metres/yards? And, if it's a 'survival' scenario, with limited ammunition, and having to take game at any required distance, you'd be better 'betting your life' on a rifle. It might also be that the difference in muzzle velocity would make a difference in lethality?

@@lohikarhu734 I don't dispute those things about standard rifles. I have a Winchester 9422 that takes down quite nicely and it's not ammunition specific either. My Smith & Wesson 17 revolver in .22 LR is just as accurate as that AR-7. It does take practice to shoot at that distance, but .22 LR is still very affordable. Yes there is a loss of energy and velocity at that distance. I can keep the revolver on my hip at the ready which is impossible for that rifle. I don't even see a sling attachment, and a rifle without a handguard doesn't seem all that practical to me. I think people buy them because they were used in a James Bond movie.

Thanks for the tip!

Couldn't really tell, but it looked like the bolt handle might have hit his hand a few times. I noticed he repositioned his hold several times afterwards

@@maxpinson5002 I noted it as well. As Paul said he finds it awkward to hold. So.... "This one does NOT fit my hand better" is a fair assessment even if it does work. :) Peaceful Skies.

Paul was the only shooter to hold the barrel carefully while shooting, and also grouped the best

Yeah, he ain't no creampuff! He's like a bulldog! That law enforcement background comes out strong in his demeanor. Keep being you, Roy

Chemo is nasty stuff. It is basically poison, and like snake poison, affects different people differently. My ex girlfriend got through it fine, but soon after lost all of her teeth and developed peripheral neuropathy.

@@latigomorgan as being a survivor of cancer, and Had Chemo. It affects Everyone differently. For Me it was a 3 day recovery after Every Treatment. So Paul is doing Extremely better than I did.

In defense of your brother, chemo is just unbelievably exhausting. Consider that what chemo actually is, is poisoning your entire body, aiming to kill enough cancer cells by simply killing lots and lots of all kinds of cells constantly, and this process just REALLY saps your energy, you will be so tired and weak all the time, and that's in addition to how you'll usually feel really nauseous all the time too. Perhaps your brother had simply given up, and maybe with the typical prognosis for pancreatic cancer, it felt too bleak for him and he lost all hope, but understand that he felt way more sick and way more weak than you've probably ever been.

I cant imagine having not been into firearms since birth practically, but im glad to finally have you on board. Better late than never. Its your duty to get at least one other person into it now.

@@whiteyfisk9769 maybe he was born in 2020….. 😮

@@whiteyfisk9769 2020 woke up something in a lot of people. Like, I was born in 1991, I grew up around guns my entire life, and have always been interested in them, but until 2020, I never felt like I really needed one. 2020 rolled around, and boy howdy, I was like "you know, it's pretty clear the government has total contempt for the common man and actually hates us enough that it won't protect us" and bought my first gun. I'm guessing that's probably also what happened with the other guy lol

You can hear the difference (smoothness?) of the actions of the Henry and the 10-22 when they cycled. Could be the wood stock vs. the hollow plastic stock...

The 10/22 is the King, but the AR7 is pretty neat. Everything fits into the butt stock, and it floats!

​@@fin59shawNothing like the AR7 when used as a utility gun near the water or on a boat.

The Ruger 10/22 is only better than the Marlin model 60 because it has a detachable magazine! The Marlin model 60 with the micro grooved barrel is way more accurate!

@@juarezderrick9647 Ha Ha, sometimes the most accurate gun doesn't really help me, but I do OK.

@@fin59shaw The Ruger 10/22 take down is a nice package, does not float. If someone has a boat. Then an AR7 would be a good idea to have as backup.

AND... Roy has the coolest hat goin'!

How's the reliability?

Why not

This is a good idea.

I'd buy one, no doubt

I would to

I would love the opportunity to get a autographed target from Paul

Yes sir

But, he's army.

@@iannesbymakes it even better.

​@@iannesby He was in the Marines before he joined the Army.