X MARKS THE SPOT
This issue, we’ve been playing with alternate history in a few articles, and this one continues that theme. We sat down and thought about a world where autoloading firearms simply never existed. What would warfare look like? This is an extension of that thought experiment, which also benefits those in ban states or nations.
A strong contender for our long-gun in this fantasy world would be a leveraction carbine in one of the Magnum revolver cartridges. We found just that in the Henry Big Boy X-Model, chambered in the hard-hitting 44 Mag, with the added bonus of being threaded for a silencer.
LEVER TIME
This matte-blued rifle has black synthetic furniture with an excellent stock-to-metal fit, two sling swivel studs for mounting a traditional two-point sling, a solid rubber recoil pad, two M-LOK accessory slots on either side of the forend, and a four-slot Picatinny rail just beneath the barrel at the tip of the forend.
It has a carbine-length 17.4-inch barrel, topped off with highly visible fiber-optic sights that have a red rear and green front. We found them easy to pick up and highly usable, even
