Reeder Custom Guns - I knew it! Checked and confirmed.

At least for myself. The Henry Repeating Arms lever .22 is a direct copy of the Erma M73. A German fax-western lever .22 rimfire. Lots of hillbillys just love them and while they bear no lineage to any classic lever gun they are serviceable and seem to work fine. I am a bit fond of the .22 WMR version.

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Henry: Anthony Imperato secured the trademark to the Henry name in 1996. I think he had been making the guns a couple years prior to that.

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Erma - Erma Werke in Germany was a large firearms manufacturer in WWII. After the war they designed and produced sporting arms including the EG71 "Wagonmaster" lever action .22 rimfire rifle. Erma went bankrupt in 1998,

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From 1973 to 1978 Ithaca Gun Company began importing the Erma .22 lever action into the USA and called it the Model 72. Erma also imported the same rifle into the USA through the 1990's but called it the Model EG-712.

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Henry picked up the design .. made a few changes internally and has been making them ever since.

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Rossi. The Rossi Rio Bravo is the same basic design.

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Ithaca Schematic

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Henry Schematic

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The centerfire guns actually have a gear sprocket and indexing notches on the rotary bolt. Ingenious design and of the highest quality. The rimfire is pretty nice too if not traditional in design. I like the short throw.

Henry makes a "Long Ranger" series of centerfire lever guns that sort of look like the Browning BLR but I do not believe they are close mechanically. They have an under receiver magazine though.

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I knew it! Checked and confirmed.

The German-made guns have quite a trail ...

the Browning BL-22 is much the same.

I have one of those, a grade II BL-22..