Well, I guess I'm the only person who's had a bad experience with a Henry Golden Boy. Mine was 17hmr though. I bought mine brand new, took it home and cleaned it real good and make sure it was ready go to the range. I got half way through the first box of shells and it just started jamming. So I put it up and decided to send it to the manufacture. They replaced the mechanism and sent it back. I took it out to the range and same thing. Make a long story short I went through this three times and the darn thing kept on jamming and they finally told me that they messed up in the boring of the barrel. Six months later I got it back and then sold it for a marlin 22 mag bolt action.

Overall opinion of the golden boy is that for target shooting it may not be a bad gun. It's definately a smooth little gun but I've heard of more than one other person having a similar situation to mine with acouple of the henry rimfire rifles so I don't usually recommend them.