During the previous AR feeding frenzy (when SW ARs were going for $1,200 each) my local Wally had a Henry Golden boy 22 for right under $300. That thing sat there for two months as it bounced around in my brain. When I decided to buy it, it was gone. I was disappoint. Later when a regular Henry 22 (non-Golden boy) popped up for $279 I bought it. It's a sweet shooter.
Right after I had made the resolution to consolidate and shrink down calibers to 308, 556, 9mm, 10mm, 38/357, 40 and 45 I sold off most of my non resolution conforming rifles/pistols. I wanted to get rid of 40 but hung on for sentimental reasons. Anyways, I swore to not add anymore none military calibers... so much for resolutions about guns...
So there I was walking by the rifle case at Wally's again a couple years later and there was a Henry Golden boy in 44 mag. Based on the quality of the Henry 22 lever action I was convinced of Henry quality so I bought it. After shooting it I decided that I needed a 44 mag pistol to go with it. Found a person selling a Ruger Super Blackhawk for a good price and for another hundred he threw in two sets of dies, primers, powder, extra cases, and bullets. I almost didn't purchase the reloading kit because 44 was plentiful but fortunately I did. This was 4 or so years ago.
Perusing the local gun sale ads a couple months ago I came across a no dash 629 with a 6 inch barrel that had been magnaported. I got a case of the gotta haves so now it resides in my 44 collection.
Coming home I decided to inventory 44 mag ammo and was shocked to find that all I had was a partial case of 44. I had neglected to buy much beyond immediate needs when it was available. So I started looking over the local ads again. Upshot is that I came across a guy that was selling his wife's 44 mag stash of 15 boxes of factory Hert plus some loose for a some cash and primers that I did stock up on.
That magnaported 629 shoots sweet. The blackhawk is a handful. I don't know why Ruger went with the small handgrips on such a large caliber. The Henry shoots nice but my eyes are fuzzy with the rear sight anymore.
I'm getting setup to start reloading 44 here shortly. My reloading stuff has been stored for over a decade so I'm kind of excited to get it back up and running. First up will be the aforementioned 44.
I've got a Winchester 1897 shotgun in the back of the safe.... maybe I need to look into cowboy action shooting. I hear it's a blast.