Meet Henry's New Bear's Leg Pistol in Four Calibers
The Bear's Leg is offered in four chamberings: .357 Magnum, .44 Magnum, .30-30 Winchester, and .45-70 Government. Every model ships with a factory-threaded barrel (5/8x24), a polymer handguard with M-LOK slots and a Picatinny rail section, fiber optic sights, a large loop lever, and a side loading gate. MSRP is $1,129 across the lineup.
The threading and M-LOK handguard tell you exactly what Henry is aiming at: suppressors, muzzle devices, lights, grips, and the growing crowd of lever-action enthusiasts who want their guns running modern accessories, not sitting on a shelf.
Henry is also flagging the Bear's Leg as an SBR conversion candidate. With the appropriate ATF paperwork, adding a stock is a clean path since the rail furniture is already factory-fitted. This should be a meaningful detail for NFA enthusiasts.
The chambering choices are worth unpacking. The pistol-caliber options (.357 and .44 Mag) are the obvious practical picks: manageable recoil, widely available ammo, and reasonably fast follow-up shots in a compact platform. The .30-30 model puts one of America's most proven hunting cartridges in a very packable format, which makes real sense as a truck or trail gun.
The .45-70 version is the one that will get attention, though, at least in my opinion. A .45-70 lever pistol is a legitimate big-bore statement in a small package, and paired with a suppressor and a stock, it becomes something genuinely unusual.
At $1,129, is it priced right? It's not cheap for a lever-action pistol, but the M-LOK furniture and fiber optics add real value over basic Mare's Leg clones. Whether it justifies the premium over a standard Henry lever rifle depends on how much you actually want the compact pistol format.
The Bear's Leg is available now through licensed dealers. Full specs at HenryUSA.com, or https://www.henryusa.com/firearm/bears-leg-pistol/ directly.
Ex-Arctic Ranger. Competitive practical shooter and hunter with a European focus. Always ready to increase my collection of modern semi-automatics, optics, thermals and suppressors. TCCC Certified. Occasionaly seen in a 6x6 Bug Out Vehicle, always with a big smile.
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.45-70? ouch!
I like the part where they threaded the barrel on a design where you have to unscrew the tube mag follower and pull it all the way out the front-- where it has ~2mm of clearance from the barrel-- to unload it without cycling the action, and put it so close that even a QD suppressor mount wouldn't allow it to clear.
I can't believe Henry set up a full production SKU to sell like 5 guns to YouTubers. SBR-ing your .45-70 isn't going to appeal to many people, even with a free tax stamp, and 95% of the people who would want to buy a .45-70 pistol have already been involuntarily committed for their past attempts at self-harm.