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Greetings! I am having a back and forth war with Benelli (importer of Uberti Products) over my 1860 Henry since. I bought it. I have sent it back 4 times and they keep punting it back saying that it works fine for them with there test ammo (Winchester grey box cowboy loads 44-40). My hand loads are made with virgin stair line brass, Missouri Bullet Company 44-40 specific bullets powered with trail boss powder, using the RCBS cowboy dies (the fancy looking ones). I made them to the best of my ability and to spec according to Lymans 50th Ed reloading guide. I have not been able to try it in another lever action rifle because I do not have another smokeless 44-40 rifle to try it in. I do have a Winchester 1873 serial number 421091B, it was made back in 1892. I put dummy rounds loaded the same way through it with no issue. The only factory ammo I have even feed the Henry currently is Fiocchi cowboy stuff. I do plan to order as many other brands possible to try to see if they work better but I am not holding my breath with that angle. The issue is that when you load it with 10 rounds (in my test video I only load 5) and you lever it to chamber a round it jams with the lever locked in the open position unable to feed a round and you have to push the follower forward letting the round slide forward into the magazine to clear the jam. The issue does not happen consistently but you are guaranteed to experience the problem at least 3-4 times per 10 if not more. I already picked up the Magtech Cowboy rounds and Hornedy Cowboy rounds from my local gun shop. One things I was thinking was removing the lifter from my 1873 Winchester in 44-40 and installing it temporally in the 1860 Henry to see if the lifter geometry is the issue. Only if it fits and would not damage the lifter from the 73 Is there something blindingly obvious that I am missing? My current plan is to write a college thesis and beat Benelli over the head and make them repair it. I refuse to spend extra money to repair a brand new gun that arrived as a lemon. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The poor dummy rounds I used in the photo is where the lifter is on the lower position have been smashed down me that is why they are much shorter. I made 10 of them trying to understand the problem and they each must have been cycled 10-20 times so they are telescoping pretty good when this image was taken. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The second one is me alternation snap cap then dummy round for the whole magazine. The snap caps feed and function 100% of the time. I managed to push the snap cap into the chamber to try to show the issue I am experiencing (not sure if it does anything). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is the lifter deformed in any way that people can see? It does have some rough edges that I are disappointing to see for the money that I Paid for the dam thing.