louisc
The manufacturers are not getting rid of bad inventory, all of their products are pretty much the same, and all can stand a little bit of tuning to perform at their best. Your analogy of a car that doesn't work properly right out of the showroom is not quite accurate. Most of these guns function reasonably well right out of the box. But in this sport some of us tend to run them to extremes. To paraphase a well known CAS gunsmith who used to drive race cars in an earlier life, taking a stock gun to a CAS match and shooting the dickens out of it week after week is a bit like taking the family sedan out on a race track. You will probably get away with it a time or two, but do it often enough and one day you will see the transmission sliding down the road behind you in your rear view mirror. Given ordinary use, most of these guns will function just fine. But they were never designed to be shot as often and as hard as many do in CAS. Many of the originals did not have more than a few boxes of ammo run through them in years. We tend to shoot our guns a lot in CAS, and some shoot them really hard. Just like the family sedan, which works fine for ordinary use, these very old designs usually need a little bit of fine tuning to put up with the abuse we tend to heap on them.
And I happen to share Will Ketchum's opinion of the HRAC. If you take the time to read their advertising material, and if you know anything at all about the history of the real Henry rifle, you will see that HRAC's promotional material is full of half truths and self serving fiction. If they had chosen to build their guns and simply not come up with the fiction that they are somehow connected with the historical Henry rifle, I would have no quarrel with them at all. It is their dishonest approach to their marketing that continues to convince me I will never buy any of their products.
But I sincerly hope you are happy with your rifle and enjoy shooting it.