Thread: Howa Superlite owners.

Today I spoke to the 3rd Howa owner I know who has had the sling stud pull out of their Superlite stock. He did a home repair on his and it seems that the stud is just screwed into the carbon shell with no form of reinforcement behind it? The other two people I know had the stocks replaced (no questions asked) by Howa. Now, this is all good except that, if it comes out and sends your Z8i tumbling onto the rocks, I don't think Howa would be replacing that.
I am not posting this to dis the Howa, they are a cool little rifle, but rather to let owners know that it may pay to do some preventative maintenance rather than have them fail at the most inconvenient time.

Both mine have a steel/alloy female stud thing
buried in the stock that the sling stud screws into. You'd be doing pretty well to try rip it out. Have mtn gear rail on it now so the rear screw goes into that and I drilled out and epoxied another one of those studs into it for the front one. Definitely weren't just screwed into the carbon from factory

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Both mine have a steel/alloy female stud thing
buried in the stock that the sling stud screws into. You'd be doing pretty well to try rip it out. Have mtn gear rail on it now so the rear screw goes into that and I drilled out and epoxied another one of those studs into it for the front one. Definitely weren't just screwed into the carbon from factory

Ok. I'm just going off what the person I spoke to today said, and how they repaired it. I think he put a nut in there and epoxied around it. I only know 3 people who own them, and it has happened to all 3 of them? This latest one is a very new rifle too.

I've seen one with the front stud pulled out too, definitely nothing behind it. My advice was to make up a wee hook out of a 2.5 or so Allen key, cut the short leg off so it's about 2.5mm long, chuck it in a drill and use it to cut away a recess behind the skin. Fill the recess with epoxy and replace the sling stud (spray it with release agent if you're thinking of replacing it soon (or put a soldering iron on it when that time comes).

Chris Murf has repaired a few stocks on the Superlite and Mini where the studs pulled out.
Seems the Stockys can be veeeeery thin where the stud threads in.

On mine when I checked, the fore stud has plenty of epoxy in there and is solid.
The rear stud was into just the skin so I hogged out a little of the internal foam and added a bunch of JB Weld around it