Thread: Kiwi made Howa mini ultralight chassis a reality?

Hey mate, you miss understand what I said.. I'm comparing 6mm offerings (6mm ARC 6ppc 6x45 etc) in the limited mag length howa mini rifle that these chassis are designed for... apple's and oranges comparing a 6mm Creedmore to a 12.5" 6.5 Grandel.
The 12.5 grendel gets just under 2300fps with BM8208.
To state the obvious at this point, a 12.5" 6mm ARC shooting 108s doesnt come close to a 6.5 Grendel shooting 123gr.
There is a cross over point where most of the howa mini chamberings alighn, some flatter shooting and some harder hitting but I am a speaking from a longer range carried energy point of view. Maybe I should have made that more transparent. I have also had better luck with the 6.5 match bullets over the 6mm match bullets when it comes to 100% energy dump on animals with no pass through. So although the custom loaded 12.5" 6mm a has a little more muzzle velocity (2360fps) than the 6.5mm (2290fps) it doesn't kill as well as the grendel in my experience.
As you well know I do enjoy a longer shot so this is how I tend to trade these things off against each other but either cartridge is as good as a full length .223rem at more moderate hunting ranges.

Ah I see sorry for the misunderstanding, my bad.

A couple more builds..
A very custom prototype 9mm Luger in a Ceracoated flat dark earth Elude chassis. Runs 1911 9 round mags with a custom mag adaptor and custom control feed bolt.
Stacks 147gr sub ammo out of the 11" vulcan fast 1-10" twist S/S barrel into neat little ragged hole groups at 50y.



Also a mini thumper in .450 Bushmaster, 13" barrel with interchangeable muzzle break and suppressor for subs and supers. Topped of with the Leupold 1-4x20 Pig plex.. This one is a whole lot of fun..

@Wingman what's the current wait list for 1of these set ups

Originally Posted by Padox

@Wingman what's the current wait list for 1of these set ups

Depends on what chambering you want. Some are available now others are due Feb.

@Wingman are you selling just the chassis yet?

Yes

@Wingman what's a chassis worth?

1k

when you decide to make a long action one for the HOWA1500 you will be even busier than you are now LOL....

I picked up my xmas pressie but unfortunately no chance to shoot yet.
It's a 6.5 Grendel with the carbon tensioned 12.5" barrel + DPT, topped with a 1-8x Nikko Stirling Octa.

The chassis alone is unbelievably light! Truly a some great engineering there.



(Temporarily removed the cheek riser until I sort out a decent cheek weld for my face... even though scope is sitting on medium rings, the butt stock tube is better for me.)

@Wingman do you have any chassis in stock or are they all currently spoken for?

Originally Posted by Scotts

@Wingman do you have any chassis in stock or are they all currently spoken for?

There was one on the counter at Shooter Ready a few days ago, don't know if it was sold or not.

Had mine out for a pest mission with my son this week, he absolutely loved shooting it!

Mine is finally up and running also.
About to head out for the weekend and see if we can find some freezer fillers and see how it shoots.
Also in grendel with 11inch barrel.
Sighting in was promising - 3 rounds at 100 mtrs after sight in using the custom sst factory ammo



And the finished (ish) rifle...

Originally Posted by Mintie

There was one on the counter at Shooter Ready a few days ago, don't know if it was sold or not.

Now in @Scotts hot little hands