Hunting Washington Forum
Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: sagewalker on February 10, 2014, 08:08:15 PM
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Anyone have any experience with this model of rifle?? I have been giving them some thought, opinions would be great :tup: not so concerned about caliber, just an overall opinion of the rifle itself. Haven't made up my mind on what to get yet anyhow
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I have a Howa 1500 with the hogue stock in .308 and love it. I am thinking about getting the stainless in 300wm. Great gun for the money.
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Had a heavy barreled varmint in 22-250. The Nikko scope version.went to the range with some favorite handloads of 40 gr V-max's full of Varget. No initial cleaning, no break in. Sub 1/2" groups, with some at 1/4"! Great gun!
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Hogue makes good stuff. The Axiom stocked models are another thing--some like them, and some hate them. Never owned either one, so I can't opine... :dunno: :chuckle:
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same rifle as a weatherby vanguard. wish i would have bought one when they were $300.
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I have a Howa/Hogue in 30-06. The gun is a great gun. I load ammo for it, and I can usually get around 3/4" groups. I love the gun for hunting, its easy to carry, good price, accurate gun. However, the hogue stock that it comes with is a very flimsy stock. I put a bipod on the stock and I could flex my stock easily to where it would touch the barrel. I started looking into getting a different stock for it, and unfortunately there are not a lot of choices for the Howa 1500 long action. I bought the gun when I first started getting into hunting and it was more than sufficient for what I needed to do then. But now, I have gotten into precision shooting, and am capable of taking a lot longer shots, and so I will be purchasing a different gun that will better fill this role. But I won't get rid of the Howa. Great gun, but if you have any plans of building it up at all, save your money and buy a Remington 700.
