Howa Owners

[moe786]

Calibre: .308
Barrel Length: 22" Fitted with a Gunworx Silencer
Barrel Profile: Standard
Stock Make: Howa
Stock Material: Boyd's Laminated Pepper Thumb Hole Stock
Scope Brand: Nikon
Scope Model: Monarch 3 3-12x42 BDC
Primary Application: Hunting and occasional Target shooting
Best Accuracy Achieved: 3 holes touching at 100m all the time at the range.
Blesbok taken at 270m headshot with not much effort
Are you happy with your Howa: Very
Comments:Very Happy with mine. Already purchased another howa 6.5 Grendle Rifle

[moe786]

Calibre: .308
Barrel Length: 22" Fitted with a Gunworx Silencer
Barrel Profile: Standard
Stock Make: Howa
Stock Material: Boyd's Laminated Pepper Thumb Hole Stock
Scope Brand: Nikon
Scope Model: Monarch 3 3-12x42 BDC
Primary Application: Hunting and occasional Target shooting
Best Accuracy Achieved: 3 holes touching at 100m all the time at the range.
Blesbok taken at 270m headshot with not much effort
Are you happy with your Howa: Very
Comments:Very Happy with mine. Already purchased another howa 6.5 Grendle Rifle

Apologies I meant considering purchasing a grendle

[Redhawk75]

Caliber: 204 Ruger
Barrel Length: 24”
Barrel Taper: Heavy varmint
Stock: Thumbhole laminate
Scope: Nikon 4-16x42 Prostaff 7
Use: Killing paper
Group: 0.25 MOA
Happiness Level: Very

Caliber: 6.5 Grendel
Barrel Length: 20”
Barrel Taper: Heavy
Stock: Custom Walnut
Scope: Weaver 3-9x38
Use: Small/medium game in bushveld
Group: sub MOA but haven’t done piper load development yet
Happiness Level: This could easily become my all time favorite rifle

Caliber: 308 Winchester
Barrel Length: 24”
Barrel Taper: Heavy Varmint
Stock: Thumbhole laminate
Scope: Leupold 3-9x40
Use: Son has taken it over, general purpose for everything
Group: 0.75 MOA, found a load that met our hunting needs & stopped, will do more load development when his varsity schedule allows.
Happiness Level: Not happy because it’s not mine anymore

Caliber: 375 Ruger
Barrel Length: 24”
Barrel Taper: Heavy Magnum
Stock: Hogue Overmoulded
Scope: Nikon 2-7x32
Use: Big things (giraffe & buffalo )
Group: 0.5 MOA, handload using a 300gr PMP SP
Happiness Level: Still smiling

Comments: Now that my son has taken over the 308 I need another HOWA to fill that gap, perhaps a 300WM or even better a 7mm RM because I already have 2 short actions and only 1 long action. Most of my game was taken with a 7mm RM (Winchester) which I sold to buy more HOWA’s.


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[Pirate]

So I pulled the trigger on this last month, license app went in 2 weeks ago. Still no sms with ref number though :-/

Plan is to progressively build this into a "precision trainer" and general range toy.

Caliber: 223 Remington (Short action). The Mini Action really intrigued me but I didn't want to be limited on OAL by mag length, and I don't like the protruding removable mag of the Mini Action.

Barrel Length: 20” (1:9 twist)

Barrel Taper: Heavy varmint (22mm muzzle diameter). Second upgrade will be to thread it (M18x1) for a surpressor. I don't want a huge can on it, and like the idea of the short (150mm length) Silent Hunter Hunt Buddy.

Stock: Bought a barreled action only, got gifted 2 Hogue stocks. That'll have to do for now, the last upgrade will probably be something like a Boyds At-One.

Scope: Not decided yet, but an entry level FFP would tick all my "want" boxes (Vortex Diamondback Tactical 6-24x50 looks to be very good bang for buck). First "upgrade" (needed before I can go shooting when the license eventually arrives) would me a 20MOA rail, currently the Warne Mountaintech rail seems like the best option.

Use: To put all the toys on that I won't put on my current hunting rifles.

Group: Hopefully excellent. Baseline load idea is 69gr Lapua Scenars at ~2900fps.

Happiness Level: Very low, because it resides in my LGS's safe for the coming months, until I get the license :-(

[treeman]

Howa !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Never before has class, quality, name, brand and history been so PK'd by a back street across the rail lines, wrong side of town, low breed piece of JapCrap.
I want to hate this shit, but you just can't, it is just too good.

[Againstthegrains]

Howa !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Never before has class, quality, name, brand and history been so PK'd by a back street across the rail lines, wrong side of town, low breed piece of JapCrap.
I want to hate this shit, but you just can't, it is just too good.

Funny how the older generations still think Jap Crap exists, the new generations have only awe and wonder for modern day Japanese manufacturing. Compare Makita with Bosch, or Lexus with BMW, the Germans are no longer the kings of quality manufacturing.

[moe786]

Japanese are masters at what they do.

And to top it all there prices are just the cherry on the top.

Howa for life.

[treeman]

Like I said : " never before............................................ ................................................"

[Messor]

Barrel Length: 20” (1:9 twist)

Group: Hopefully excellent. Baseline load idea is 69gr Lapua Scenars at ~2900fps.

You gonna properly stabilize this bullet of yours there down by the sea?

[Pirate]

You gonna properly stabilize this bullet of yours there down by the sea?

Strelok (which seems to use similar Miller factor to JBL Ballistics) predicts just over 1.6 so I'm sure it'll be OK.
My 155gr loads has a predicted stability of 1.34 and they shoot very well.