Howa Owners

**Edwill** · 13-08-2020, 20:43

Originally Posted by Whitedelight

So anyone else have to bush their firing pin?

I had mine bushed. With small pistol primers at high loads I had some hang fires, and pierced primers. Since I had it done I haven't experienced it again.

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**treeman** · 13-08-2020, 22:07

You had your Howa bushed because it pierced pistol primers when shooting high pressure rifle loads with said primers ?
Am I lost ?

**Edwill** · 13-08-2020, 22:07

Originally Posted by treeman

You had your Howa bushed because it pierced pistol primers when shooting high pressure rifle loads with said primers ?
Am I lost ?

Typo, small rifle primers.

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**treeman** · 13-08-2020, 23:16

Hi Edwill, please exp[lain what the bushing did to aid the prevention of primers being pierced, I am novice to this occurrence and cause,reason - also rectifying. I know the reloading aspect, but this bushing matter is of interest to me.

**Edwill** · 14-08-2020, 17:50

Originally Posted by treeman

Hi Edwill, please exp[lain what the bushing did to aid the prevention of primers being pierced, I am novice to this occurrence and cause,reason - also rectifying. I know the reloading aspect, but this bushing matter is of interest to me.

We shooting 6 or 6.5 caliber with small rifle brass. The Howa bolt was designed with Large rifle in mind.

Basically if without it being bushed, you need to shoot a pretty hard primer to avoid cratering/piercing. I'm finally able to shoot Federal 210M in my rifle.

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**MohamedD** · 06-09-2020, 14:42

Went with my daughter to SWAT in Pretoria while visiting the in laws. Wanted to take a few shots with the Howa. 6 shots,one of the shots was my daughter trying out the 308. Ammo used was federal 180 grain soft point. 3A7192EB-9737-4E6F-BCA7-722B6A573C30.jpeg

**Sean KZN** · 06-09-2020, 17:24

can't get much better than that.

**MohamedD** · 06-09-2020, 18:11

Thanks Sean. Wasn’t expecting to shoot like that.

**killzone** · 07-09-2020, 08:58

Originally Posted by MohamedD

Went with my daughter to SWAT in Pretoria while visiting the in laws. Wanted to take a few shots with the Howa. 6 shots,one of the shots was my daughter trying out the 308. Ammo used was federal 180 grain soft point. 3A7192EB-9737-4E6F-BCA7-722B6A573C30.jpeg

That is really a good group !!!

**Againstthegrains** · 09-09-2020, 21:27

Originally Posted by Edwill

We shooting 6 or 6.5 caliber with small rifle brass. The Howa bolt was designed with Large rifle in mind.

Basically if without it being bushed, you need to shoot a pretty hard primer to avoid cratering/piercing. I'm finally able to shoot Federal 210M in my rifle.

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Can you please explain what bushing is in layman's terms? I have a friend who uses small rifle primers in his 6.5 Creedmoore and has pitting issues at what I would think are safe loads.