RE: howa?
I don't own one, but I've sold them, along with Remingtons, Brownings, Tikkas, Marlins, etc.
They are excellent guns. If you haven't seen other posts yet, Howa makes the Vanguard for Weatherby. It's an excellent rifle, accuracy as good as most others, and I've never heard of any problems mechanically with them. For the money, you can't do much better. We were selling the synthetic/blued version for 359.00 and the stainless/synthetic for 399.00. That was a little over a year ago.