Thread: Shout out for Howa

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.