brownells howa 1500 16 inch heavy barrel

[bnsafe]

anyone did a build with this. I was gonna do a build with a tikka, but this is quite abit cheaper and already threaded. how was accuracy, action, weight

 

[hereinaz]

I like the Howa Mini. Fit and finish is not as good as Tikka. I like the trigger, and cutting on the spring makes trigger pull lighter. I lightly wet sanded the bolt to make it smoother.

The magazine release is weird on the front, mags and bottom metal are plastic but run fine. I switched out to the aluminum DIP bottom metal and ground the profile of the mag release lever smaller.

There is new bottom metal out there. I don’t know much about it.

I run a Stocky’s VG on it.

Barrels have shot well on the Howa rifles I have seen. But, I customized my mini and put a new barrel on it.

If you wait till Black Friday, Brownells usually runs a very very good deal on them. I plan on getting another then.

 

[180ls1]

I like the Howa Mini. Fit and finish is not as good as Tikka. I like the trigger, and cutting on the spring makes trigger pull lighter. I lightly wet sanded the bolt to make it smoother.

The magazine release is weird on the front, mags and bottom metal are plastic but run fine. I switched out to the aluminum DIP bottom metal and ground the profile of the mag release lever smaller.

There is new bottom metal out there. I don’t know much about it.

I run a Stocky’s VG on it.

Barrels have shot well on the Howa rifles I have seen. But, I customized my mini and put a new barrel on it.

If you wait till Black Friday, Brownells usually runs a very very good deal on them. I plan on getting another then.

The whole bolt? Any tips, procedures or related? My dad and I have superlites and the bolts are a little rough, especially when they are all the way back. If I could improve that last 25% it would be really helpful.

 

[hereinaz]

I smoothed the entire bolt, made a huge difference.

Mini Howa Build: open bolt face for 6 BRA

This is for @Jbuck but figured I'd start a thread on it. Richard Luna of Bring the Edge, a small shop in NM did the work. He has done lots of barrels for me and they all shoot. I wanted a little backpack rifle in a small caliber, but with some ooomph. I have a bunch of 6mm bullets and 6 BRA...

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