Howa mini rebarrel

[A5BLASTER]

What's the hordes thoughts who makes the most consistently accurate barrel to rebarrel a howa mini with?

Probably looking at a heavy barrel 5/8x24 threads 24 inch long.

Will be doing a chassis with it as well.

Need to know who cuts replacment barrels for the howa mini and who on this board is thought of as the best?

[Sixoeight]

I haven't heard of many people doing this but I would think any big name that works on Howas would do it for you assuming they have the reamer. The Howa Mini is just a shorter action than the Howa SA and LA so it shouldn't be any different in terms of machining.

[Kswhitetails]

PF brother. Get ahold of Mark, and have him spin up a Criterion to your desired specs. Or a Bartlein and go all in.

[bj139]

Howa prefit barrels from Criterion and McGowan. Like the Savage, they use a barrel nut so you can set the exact headspce.

http://criterionbarrels.com/prefits/howa

http://mcgowenbarrel.com/the-howage/

[A5BLASTER]

Thinking bout doing up a bartlien 24 inch heavy profile with von gruff's grendel max chamber and use lapua brass to fireform to the new shoulder.

Have two mini's in the house one hasn't been shot since the me and the woman called it quits.

Thinking grendel max chamber some windowed mags or just single feed it and throw it in a chassis and run some 130 grain match bullets and turn it into a dedicated 1000 yard plus target bench gun.

Have the 20 inch ar but always nice to have a tricked out specialized rifle to play with.

[hill37]

How long of a bullet could be fired from a 6mm Grendel Max? One of a kind.

[A5BLASTER]

How long of a bullet could be fired from a 6mm Grendel Max? One of a kind.

I wouldn't know I'm not interested in a 6mm bullet fireing rifle.

I'm talking about a chamber designed by a member here grendel max 40 deg shoulder and the chamber still sammi but only cut .50 thousands deeper.

Single loading 130 match target bullets seated to coal of 2.400.

[hill37]

Sorry didn't mean to get off topic.

[Sticks]

Looking at the same theory on a "Switch Barrel" action I just obtained. Spec the chamber with at a longer neck, and lands at a certain point to get the most out of the 130 class.

I really want a Proof CF barrel. $800 minimum. Just don't know if I want it on the bolt gun, or the problem child PF upper.

Did Von Gruff post his specs on the chamber?

[A5BLASTER]

Looking at the same theory on a "Switch Barrel" action I just obtained. Spec the chamber with at a longer neck, and lands at a certain point to get the most out of the 130 class.

I really want a Proof CF barrel. $800 minimum. Just don't know if I want it on the bolt gun, or the problem child PF upper.

Did Von Gruff post his specs on the chamber?

Yea he posted the reamer print and some other detailed specs, I be live sneakyone has a copy of the reamer print and worked out how to do grendel max in the ar as well.

This is a good ways down the road, as I have other projects to finish plus I got to get my leg healed and get back to work.

[bj139]

If you want a bigger chamber on a 6.5mm bolt gun it makes more sense to just go 6.5 Creedmoor. You can buy factory ammo, brass, everything.

[grayfox]

Lots of good creedmoor bolt guns, and lots of drop in barrels... so that the optics and the shooter become the variables of the equation.
Recoil again is minimum and prices reasonable. Still a good shootin' project with enough to play with...

edit: but it's good to see someone who has Howa mini-action rebarrels... for when mine is shot out!

[Msalm]

Any good smith that can cut metric threads can fit a barrel for you. I've rebarreled 3 of them so far and it's no real trick. Interesting is that on every Howa I've messed with, you can take a barrel off one rifle and screw it on another and the darned thing will time up perfectly, caliber markings and all. Really kind of handy. You'd have to double check headspace and all, but you could conceivably have someone make a fully finished barrel fitted to another receiver with headspace set and caliber engraved and torque it on your receiver and be done. The receivers I've done have been very square with excellent lug engagement so really it is just a simple rebarrel job. I've only used flyweight tapers with Heym blanks, but they have shot 3/4 MOA and better with no real effort.

As for just going with the 6.5 Creedmoor, you just can't go that route and retain the compact handiness of the Mini action IMO. A Grendel Max on one would be pretty impressive I'm thinking.

For barrel selection for the 'most accurate', ANY of the top makers will be equal the other. I do use mostly cut but enjoy being a short drive from Brux barrels and can stop in to see what they might have 'extra'... Mullerworks, Bartlein, Krieger...I'd not hesitate to use any of them along with Shilen, PacNor, Benchmark, Lilja, and Criterion being a sleeper. They're all good, and will shoot as well as you might hope. For budget minded folks that can do their own work, Green Mountain makes a hell of a good shooting barrel considering their price but they are unturned blanks and take more work. I contour them and hand lap afterwards and am always surprised at how little difference the performance is between that and a blank costing over 3 times as much.

[A5BLASTER]

If you want a bigger chamber on a 6.5mm bolt gun it makes more sense to just go 6.5 Creedmoor. You can buy factory ammo, brass, everything.

And I can buy grendel factory ammo and brass and bullets as well.

I'm not seeing your point here really?

[A5BLASTER]

Reason I want to do the grendel max on the howa mini is because I already own the mini and it's not being used, so I can safe lots of cash and not have to worrie about adding a whole different caliber to the loading bench.

Von detailed his build here on this fourm so I'm most interested in that, I can use standard lapua grendel brass to fourm the grendel max brass and it's the same powder,primers I'm useing in my grendels now.

Really only interested in this and no other caliber bolt gun, this is simple a one off project for shooting plate at or beyond 1000 yards from the bench, sure I can do it now with my 20 inch grendel ar but why have a rifle sitting around not getting any use when I can rebarrel do a slight chamber spec change use the same brass,powder,bullets and primers.

Will take some time to get things sorted out after I get the reamer print and have reamer's made and die made then I will figure out who's barrel I'm going with.

Still a long ways to go, first steps be baby steps.