Thread: Howa good is your Howa? (picture heavy)

Many years ago I bought what was marketed as a CMC Howa Mountaineer in .223. Had a blued barrel and what I thought might be a mahogany stock. It was muzzle-heavy. kicked like a fresian in a herringbone shed but, once I got it, would put 5 into about 1.25" at about 100 long paces up a mate's paddock. The long paces were cos I have a foot absent, so they had to be long to compensate. Used that rifle to cull 'roos, donkeys, camels, and about a zillion rabbits, dogs and foxes. I plan to buy another Howa soonish. I think they're basically a copy of the Sako 461 of years ago. A fine rifle.