How good are Howa Rifles?
 

How good are the Howa rifles? I like the looks and the feel of them. Where are they made at? Any input would be helpful.

made in japan, but pretty good rifles, sold as the weatherby vanguard, they use to be sold as the S&W1500, nothing wrong with them.
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Yep, very good rifles with a good 2 piece trigger and all have a 3 position safety!

The older ones have two way safeties. Also Mossberg had their name on it too, as the Mossberg 1500, 1550, and 1700 I have 2 vanguards, a smith and wesson, and a howa. All nice rifles, a real bargain. Personally I liked them better with the older two way safety.

The comment in my post was based on the idea that the OP sounded like he's talking about buying a new gun!

There are a lot of good "entry" level boltguns out there right now.

Howa is one of them !!!

Very good. I'd buy another in an instant if I needed another rifle.

My 14 year old farm beater is a Howa .243. It is an accurate and extremely reliable rifle. Early on, I free floated the very flexible Tupperware stock. That rifle goes through hell riding on tractors, 4 wheeler, pickup, etc., in all sorts of weather, and it never fails. I do clean it occasionally.

Great rifles. Action platform is shared with the Weatherby Vanguard among others and also the newer Nosler rifles copied it. I have one in .243 with the Hogue stock, picked it up almost new for $290. Can't beat em.

i was considering buying a howa as a predator rifle. i have a friend that loves his

After over 40 years of big game hunting and with a safe full of other rifles, about 5 years ago I finally bought a .300 Weatherby Vanguard, which was made by Howa.

This rifle shoots sub-moa groups with a variety of different bullets. I've used it on hunts in Texas, Montana, South Africa, and New Zealand. Some might consider it an "entry level" rifle, but mine has become my favorite rifle, and I shoot it more than any of my other rifles.

I'd rather the Vanguard action(Howa) over the MarkV action.

Why? I understood that the Mark V action is stronger.

As someone that has both a mark V in 257 weatherby and howa/vanguard/Smith and wesson, the mark v action to me is smoother. And I believe is a better action then the howa. The howa is a good action but it is no Mark V.

for the life I can understand WHY you need 6 locking lugs(9 on the mags). I just don't see where a markV's action in any stronger than a 700's action