Howa Mini Rifles, Builds, and Upgrades

[J_Jacobson196]

If I can bed one anyone can haha. Those bone stock tikkas with factory ammo sure make a fella question himself tinkering and loading for other things from time to time haha.

Every time I buy or build a rifle that isn't a T3x I question why I bother. The t3x is just the easy button!

 

[TimberHunter]

Every time I buy or build a rifle that isn't a T3x I question why I bother. The t3x is just the easy button!

Same here… I get a wild hair to do something different like a super lite howa mini but then realize that I did all this to save about a lb or so lol


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[General RE LEE]

Every time I buy or build a rifle that isn't a T3x I question why I bother. The t3x is just the easy button!

Yep, my Howa Mini 6 ARC has required a lot of load development to find a load that shoots under a minute.

I got this load in less than 100 rounds with my new 6.5 PRC T3x Lite.

 

[TimberHunter]

To clear the air I wanted to follow up since I just took delivery of the stockys stocky.

With the barreled action in the stock and the tang bolts threaded in about 3/4 of the way, the action has little to no movement in any direction within the stock. Very tight fit, so I’m going to try shooting it before I bed it since it’s such a tight fit

I ordered the varmit barrel channel opening on this stock. The 20” HB leaves next to zero gap in the barrel channel so I’ll need to open that up about 1/8” on each side of the barrel.

Trigger reach is great, much shorter than a tikka in a stockys stock.

Howa trigger has pretty decent amount of creep just before it fires at the weight it comes from the factory. Hoping the creeping just before it first will go away when I lighten the trigger

20” HB, factory bottom plastic, empty mag and stock is coming in at 5.9-6lbs. So a tikka super lite lol

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[hereinaz]

To clear the air I wanted to follow up since I just took delivery of the stockys stocky.

With the barreled action in the stock and the tang bolts threaded in about 3/4 of the way, the action has little to no movement in any direction within the stock. Very tight fit, so I’m going to try shooting it before I bed it since it’s such a tight fit

I ordered the varmit barrel channel opening on this stock. The 20” HB leaves next to zero gap in the barrel channel so I’ll need to open that up about 1/8” on each side of the barrel.

Trigger reach is great, much shorter than a tikka in a stockys stock.

Howa trigger has pretty decent amount of creep just before it fires at the weight it comes from the factory. Hoping the creeping just before it first will go away when I lighten the trigger

20” HB, factory bottom plastic, empty mag and stock is coming in at 5.9-6lbs. So a tikka super lite lol

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Trigger creep, are you talking about the first stage with take up? Or, creep in the second stage?

 

[TimberHunter]

Trigger creep, are you talking about the first stage with take up? Or, creep in the second stage?

Creep just before the trigger goes off. Not the take up right when you touch the trigger. I was surprised the trigger has creep but after dry firing for a while it’s pretty noticeable


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[Unckebob]

I may be unlucky but I almost always have to tweak stocks. So much so I generally have the dremel and bedding material waiting when they come in. McMillan manners high tech specialty stocky etc. I wasn’t surprised at all to have to relieve a little material with the $400 stocky and bed it since I’ve had to with $1,000 manners stocks. Not a dig at manners by any means it’s just more common than not to have to make some minor adjustments to allow for different triggers BM and good barrel clearance. Could be ignorance on my part but I’ve always kinda thought it was just part of modifying factory rifles and building custom rifles.

I believe that you will be happy with the stock even if it requires some small modifications.

My H&S Precision Hunter Bottom Metal that is supposed to be a drop in to a BDL inlet - it fit in my Grayboe stock, but I had to give the front of it a little elbow grease. I will probably have to dremel a bit.

 

[nate907]

Needed a winter project so i drafted and printed a mag release guard for the elf owl chassis. Mounts up with the existing handguard screw and snugly wraps the sides of the mag well. This in combination with the flush mag modification should make a pretty slick hunting chassis. No field use yet, but I'm pretty happy with it so far