Howa 1500 builds **post them**
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Yeah those are impossible to find it seems like. The first link is OOS and the 2nd is just a reference.
I've looked before and never any luck.
Midway has the #23 in stock. Not sure if it would work on a .300 BO or not...
Nevermind. I'm an idiot. I saw #23 on their chart, but then realized all of them have #23 on the right hand side. Duh
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Lemme go check it out and do some research.
Thanks for pointing that out.
If anybody else has some other suggestions, I'm all ears.
Yeah, I have one in .223 and .300BO. I'd rather have one that will fit both, but I'm not sure. I contacted PH, but I'm not holding my breath on a response...
Well technically they both use the same bolt face diameter so I think they should work for each other. Unless the rod guide extends all the way forward to the neck case of the chamber. In which case, the 300BO would most likely not fit in the 223, and would not fit on my grendels.
I never saw one advertised back when I started building rifles on the Mini action, so I bought some 6061 T6 aluminum tube & white delrin rod, and a brass bolt, set stuff up in the 3-jaw on my lathe, and turned one out for myself. More or less copied the commercial ones I've seen for Rem 700 actions, just scaled-down to fit the smaller Howa Mini. That was several years ago - I'd have thought someone like Possum Hollow would've started making something for them by now??
My Howa in .243, just got my first hits at 1 km+ last weekend, which was probably the last shots through this barrel.
2 hits in a row on a <1 MOA rock at 1260 meters (1377 yards), which I'm very happy with, especially considering the limitations of a 10" twist .243 barrel and the bullets I can stabilize.
Used 95 grain Berger Classic Hunters, as they are the highest BC bullets that I can stabilize, and my barrel really liked them.
Will get it rebarreled sometime before fall, probably in 6.5x47 or maybe Creedmoor, ammo cost is about the same here in Norway, so I'm leaning towards the 47.
2 hits in a row on a <1 MOA rock at 1260 meters (1377 yards), which I'm very happy with, especially considering the limitations of a 10" twist .243 barrel and the bullets I can stabilize.
Used 95 grain Berger Classic Hunters, as they are the highest BC bullets that I can stabilize, and my barrel really liked them.
Will get it rebarreled sometime before fall, probably in 6.5x47 or maybe Creedmoor, ammo cost is about the same here in Norway, so I'm leaning towards the 47.
Picked up a used howa 308 in a grs berserk. Stole scope off my ar to test. Eventually will get a krg bravo or xray for it and get a 30cal can next year. Needs a 20moa base and better rings here soon. I like the stock but i like chassis's more
Its final form: 6.5 CM, 24" heavy #6, Oryx chassis, DNT TheOne, Warne 7914M Lite Bipod, OCL Polonium 30/7.62. Fairly budget, fairly precise. Can't complain. Except for the fire restrictions which kept me from finally stretching it out this weekend.
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It looks sick but is it me or does that scope look just like an arken lol?
From what I hear it's nearly identical and/or made by some of the same people.
It's made in same factory, based on same OEM, but supposedly the DNT has better glass.
I'm pretty sure all the barrel channels from B&C line up. If the stock says sporter barrel, the sporter Howa barrel will drop in. I have their 'heavy' barrel with B&Cs 'heavy' barrel channel and theres a perfect amount of clearance. Dont be intimidated about hogging out a barrel channel on a B&C stock either; I've opened up MANY barrel channels and I gotta say, the B&Cs were the easiest. I mean REALLY easy. So easy I'm actually scared of this stock falling apart lol. I sware mines made of a dense foam lol. I do still love the value of their stocks though.Does anyone know if this barrel will fit in this stock? The barrel is listed as "medium ci tour" by Brownells. The B&C stocks come in standard or heavy barrel fit. The one below is standard, would assume the heavy contour stock is too large but not sure if the standard is too tight or not.
HOWA M1500 Barreled Action 300 Win Mag 24" BBL 1/2"-28 Blued SKU: 100053474
Check out HOWA M1500 Barreled Action 300 Win Mag 24" BBL 1/2"-28 Blued SKU: 100053474 available Online at Brownells Today and many more Rifle Receivers & Parts products are available in our Gun Parts Department.www.brownells.com
I'm on my third Howa now and every one of their factory barrels have shot great with my handloads. All 3 of them are half inch guns with Jard target triggers in them. My last one was a barreled action I got from Brownells and I mounted it in an unbedded hogue stock. Still shot excellent.
I cant get enough of these actions. When they're on sale at Brownells (got the last one for 340 dollars) I buy them and turn them into something else. I have my own barrel vice and action wrench, and after I've experimented with the factory barrels for science's sake, I twist off the barrels, send them out for a barrel of my choice, then rebuild them into something cool. For ME, there's now downside. The money I save over an action that costs 1100 dollars more, I spend on a high end optic.
I may have just posted my Howa 1500 6.5 CM but my girlfriend had gotten me a Swarovski Z3 4-12x50 BT for Valentine's Day and I had a spare barreled action that I was keeping for when my other barrel got shot out and there were some spare parts lying about and...
Anyway, you see were this is going. I had a moral imperative and whatnot to build the hunting rifle that I will probably never use but could now if I wanted to.
I have a mini HB in 6.5 Gren , like the size of IT , dont like the plastic bottom metal and mag , I think its going to get its barrel changed to a 338 ARC , for subsonic ONLY .
And its place will be filled by a carbon stocked 6ARC , as a light goat gun .
And its place will be filled by a carbon stocked 6ARC , as a light goat gun .
Anyone got theirs at <0.5 moa?
I have a 28” 6.5cm howa 1500 in a krg bravo chassis. Only mods ive actually dont to it is the 1.5lb trigger springs.
Thinking about doing a bartlien barrel in like an m24 contour. Anything thing else worth doing? Seems like a pretty decent out of the box action.
I have a 28” 6.5cm howa 1500 in a krg bravo chassis. Only mods ive actually dont to it is the 1.5lb trigger springs.
Thinking about doing a bartlien barrel in like an m24 contour. Anything thing else worth doing? Seems like a pretty decent out of the box action.
My Howa in 308 and 6.5 shot about .5 MOA.
In addition to the GunBloke trigger spring upgrade, I sent my bolt to Long Rifles Inc and had them jewel it and “Polish cocking cam and cocking piece nose,” and it made bolt manipulation smoother.
-Stan
I bought a Brownell's barreled action in 6.5 Creedmore 6 months ago. The heavy barrel is actually 0.83" at the muzzle. I put on a Jard trigger and fitted it to a GRS Fenris stock. Using 40.0 grains of H4350 and 147 ELD, I'm getting 2620 and it's sub-MOA, 4" at 500 meters. I'm anxious to try this load at 1K. Not bad for a sub-$900 set-up.
Howa 24" 308
Dnt the one
Harris
talley 20moa rail.
Looking to upgrade to krg bravo or xray soon. Is there any market for these grs stocks?
Dnt the one
Harris
talley 20moa rail.
Looking to upgrade to krg bravo or xray soon. Is there any market for these grs stocks?
I just want a detachable mag and run it in prs. So im looking to go bravo or xray soon.
Haven't seen any on here that I can think of, I had a 1.350 extra heavy varmint on my 33 nosler. Most chassis will do a 1.250 straight but no one's posting them here that I've seen.
It's hard for me to understand why Howa hasn't come up with their own aluminum DBM to replace the plastic factory POS. I've been building/shooting the Mini actions for several years - have five of them now, from 20 Tactical, 223AI, 22 Grinch, 6 RAT, to 6.5 Grendel, all with Bartlein or Krieger barrels that I've done for them. All have DIP or Jefferson aluminum DBMs, with the one on the Grinch being Jefferson's unit that uses CZ 527 magazines. Was just out shooting the 20 Tac rifle that's in a Boyds adjustable Pro Varmint Sunday - first time I've shot it in nearly a year. It has the DIP DBM, and for some reason, was giving me fits as it wouldn't feed worth a hoot. As soon as Jefferson makes another run of their bottom metal for CZ 527 mags, I'm going to switch. That's what I had to use to get the 22 Grinch to feed reliably, and it made all the difference in the world on that rifle, which is in a B&C M40 stock.
