Bring a factory Howa out to Colorado.... I'd love to see it next to the Tikka. Obviously you have a couple.... as you seem hell-bent on extolling their virtues on a post that doesn't have anything to do with them.
I've had Howa/Vanguard..... they sucked balls. Accuracy was always mediocre, and they need both a Trigger and Stock.
If you had $600.... and had to shoot that rifle at fur/steel/targets out to 600, outta the box with no aftermarket parts.... what would you buy? Think it'll put shoot the Tikka?
You better pray to the God of Skinny Punks that this wind doesn't pick up......
