I've had four Howa 1500s, and all of them shot well. And the triggers sucked, one .223, two .270s and one 7mm Rem. Mag. All were kinda portly, but that didn't matter too much. I simply didn't like the 7mm Mag. and got rid of it pretty quick, but I flat-out wore the barrel of the .223 out in several trips prairie dogging in SD. It took a LOT of rounds to do that, but I got it done. All of them fed smoothly and had no issues, EXCEPT the screw holding the bolt stop in place is pretty dainty and can sheer off easily. It's a cheap fix to replace it, but it might pay to keep some spares handy. It only happened on the .223, which, as noted, got fired a LOT and perhaps there was some rapid bolt work putting more stress on it than the larger guns.It slayed a lot of prairie dogs, and it was fun.
