Thread: Howa 1500 torque settings.

And its also worth mentioning that years ago I fcuked up my Tikka Laminate stock, gradually, over time, by overtighening it by hand with a simple quarter inch drive, back at the hut. I’d strip the rifle down in the evening after a wet hunt, and reassemble next morning. It wasn’t pillar bedded and little by little I was compressing the laminate under the bottom metal by using the “one size fits all” method of “feeling” when it was tight enough... except for me “tight enough” was too tight... stupid but easily done if you’re used to pillar bedded stocks, which all my other rifles were / are.

Fixed it by inserting pillars and epoxy bedding the bottom metal and the action. But lesson learned.

I find that if you keep changing tools to tighten your action screws, its very easy to overdo it. E.g. using the Tikka supplied T-Wrench vs a quarter inch drive with a long bar on it. Grab that bar towards the end of the handle and give it a tweak and you can be up around 70-80 inch pounds or more in the blink of an eye. Best to get one took that you know is right, and stick to it.