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Fuggin' enabler...

I just wrapped up securing 50/50 custody of my kiddos (money very well spent) so I am going to have to not build for a bit. And by not build, I mean finish what I've already started but not add to it...

But, I MAY, MIGHT, MAYBE go ahead and secure the barreled action. Maybe...probably...most likely...


Travis

Do it! If you break down and buy one, that may be the push I need to do it!

I even have a set of Talley's and a Loopie 3X waitin' in the cut...

And McMillan doesn't charge 'til it's shipped right...


Travis

kids is more important... i spent a lot to get mine and can forgo a few rifles for them... i got physical custody though... life don't suck!!! though the boys still are pestering me for some M4's... kids... grins

thanks.. i'm pretty proud of them both!

Yeah, yeah... Kids are great. So SS or blued on this .375?


Travis

i'd get the blued action... nothing that Krylon can't fix!!! going to hillbilly coat a couple just to say i did!!! grins that or i might buy one of them coating kits from midway, the ones that i don't have to toss chit into the oven for, and give it a shot? can't be that hard... it's just painting.... i can screw that up with the best of them....

always go SS tube!!! always!!!

Paul,

That's the thing. The SS action comes with the stainless tube. The blued comes with the blued. I am in fact going to shoot the donor and try to get away with just bedding it into a Mickey.

I am not a fan of two stage triggers, but I was dry firing one the new Howas and that trigger broke clean! Real clean...


Travis

Just called Sportsmans. They have the Weatherby Vanguards S2 for $429.99. The $350 price was a sale.

Helped a guy sight in his new Howa 270 today. I thought the action was smooth enough and the trigger was good. The scope was the weak link.

By contrast, another guy showed up with a Stevens M200 with a Zeiss Conquest and asked me to help in sight in for a hunt. Took me 2 rounds to zero that scope. I couldn't help but tell him the scope cost twice as much as the rifle.

can't fault you for doing that... it should work fine!

Anybody know the barrel tennon thread on the Howas? I like the actions that I have handled. Thinking about slumming factory tubes makes me queasy. I do not cut metric threads on my lathe. But if they are standard I might tool up to true actions and tube Howas. I guess I can add barrels to my list of things I am a snob about, scopes and brass top the list..

They're metric you snob....


Travis

26mm and 1.5mm pitch

I've had a .308 Vanguard and a .223 Howa HB.
Lights out accurate.
I've got a 6.5x55 coming in any day now.....

That sux, nevermind keep your ol howas

I thought that was the case, but hoped I was misremembering

Got another one in the works... But it will get new brass.


Travis

almost came home with another one but realized i was broke.... i think i'm good on rifles for a long long time though... at least two or three more months... grins

I dont know what it is about the Howa, how such a budget gun be packed with so many positives..........

I have a 223 and 243 that I have been contemplating sending down the road, but i cant make myself do it. They shoot super accurately and havent let me down. Why change to something else when these two produce the goods.

I think they will stay in their rightful place in my safe for sometime yet - next to the EDGE'd Howa 30-06!!

Gus

I understand.Been thinking of a Vanguard(Howa)in 300WSM.

A great rifle. As others have said, the same basic rifle as the Wby Vanguard. You can get a Wby style stock for them on stockysstocks.com for about $205. They are really accurate and the action is actually what you would do in designing a modern action with the best of all the rest. The stock is tupperware but can be glass bedded and the barrel floated easily. An amazing rifle for the low price.