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10-07-2020, 21:59 #101
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Re: Howa Owners
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
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13-07-2020, 10:36 #102
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14-07-2020, 18:21 #103
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Re: Howa Owners
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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14-07-2020, 21:39 #104
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Re: Howa Owners
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 :-(
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14-07-2020, 21:43 #105
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Re: Howa Owners
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.
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15-07-2020, 22:38 #106
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15-07-2020, 22:56 #107
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Re: Howa Owners
Japanese are masters at what they do.
And to top it all there prices are just the cherry on the top.
Howa for life.
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15-07-2020, 23:32 #108
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Re: Howa Owners
Like I said : " never before............................................ ................................................"
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16-07-2020, 10:38 #109
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16-07-2020, 11:32 #110
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