Thread: Shout out for Howa

I just love my Howa's to bits. Sourfully they do not come in left hand - yet.
I normally fit Boyds Provamint stocks to my rifles - like the shape.

Originally Posted by Spudattack

That’s easy, if you are tossing up between the Howa and the Tikka, buy the Alpine Mountain Rifle.
You get a mint custom Legendary Arms Hi-Tech composite stock stock, factory cerakoting and it weighs the same as a tikka ultralight for the same money as a standard T3x.

Or get a barrelled action and put in the stock of your choice.

No brainer really.....

To be fair, for someone that just wants a plain hunting rifle to shoot deer out to 300 odd yard on occasion, there is nothing wrong with the Hogue.


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I had totally forgotten about this thread until @quentin was having a browse today. My Howas have evolved since the early days of my reintroduction to hunting:

The top two pictures are my grandfather's axe of a 6.5 Creedmoor. It started out life as a Hogue stocked, stainless standard 22' barrel rifle. Shot a lot of stuff with it. Bought a new factory take-off barrel and had Stu at Greystone fit the barrel and cerakote the barrelled action in stone grey. He also modified the bolt handle to fit the oversized knob which gave him a bit of a challenge!

I then dropped it into one of the Alpine stocks discussed earlier in this thread. These stocks were available aftermarket for a wee while and I scored two of them when fine forum folk moved on to new projects. Most people think it's a Bergara at first glance. I really like how it turned out and @Spudattack was right - those stocks are the business - slim and light how a hunting rifle should be.

The bottom two pictures are the 223. I bought a barrelled action as I had the stock sitting in the cupboard ready to go. I got the barrel shortened to 18.5" so the Gunworks 35mm suppressor clears the stock. In the top photo I'm shooting bunnies with a 50grain semi point bullet pushed along at 1900fps with Trailboss. Works beautifully and is significant quieter than full house loads. The bottom picture is a fallow spiker shot through the chest with a 75 grain Speer Gold Dot. Despite not hitting the spine the wee deer just reared up on it's hind legs and toppled over dead. We were quite surprised it didn't run then expire as you'd normally expect.

I also have a Howa 6BR now that was custom assembled by the late Harvey Westland. It has a Timney trigger fitted to it (as discussed earlier in this thread as well) and it is the most ridiculous rifle I've ever owned! It's got a heavy 22' barrel so is super nice to shoot and it groups Targex 70 grain bullets into tiny clusters.i haven't done much hunting with it get - just a handful of roos so far, but that is going to change. More wallabies are definitely on the cards as well as pigs if they show themselves. It has a 1/8" twist so the 100s and 103 class bullets are stabilised which means I might have to go find some deer to tip over too I think.

Man you make me wish I never sold my 308 howa alpine

Interesting revival of an old thread that I participated in at the beginning saying I was contemplating a Howa .
Since then I’ve owned/purchased four of them .
Butt……..
I only still have one in the Safe , a .223 1500 SA (not the mini ) 20 inch Heavy Barrel - Fluted in a Stocky’s Carbon Fibre Stock
Very good Rifles for the money that just don’t seem to have much soul or vibe for some reason .
They are usually the first thing I recommend to a new shooter or just someone wanting a “ tool “ because they work without to much fuss .

Originally Posted by Ground Control

Interesting revival of an old thread that I participated in at the beginning saying I was contemplating a Howa .
Since then I’ve owned/purchased four of them .
Butt……..
I only still have one in the Safe , a .223 1500 SA (not the mini ) 20 inch Heavy Barrel - Fluted in a Stocky’s Carbon Fibre Stock
Very good Rifles for the money that just don’t seem to have much soul or vibe for some reason .
They are usually the first thing I recommend to a new shooter or just someone wanting a “ tool “ because they work without to much fuss .

Here's one way to add some zing to a plain old Howa @Ground Control

https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....-308-a-107462/

Just in case you hadn't seen it. This stock is so good it really needs a custom refinished action with an aftermarket barrel in an interesting calibre fitted. And some one-off bottom metal that befits the quality of the stock too!

Yip,slip it into a good wooden stock and they are very nice indeed.

What’s the difference in the mag length between the mini and short action in .223?


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