08-06-2020, 03:29 PM
I think about all the money I invested in the new bottom metal CDI installed. All the mags I bought, tore through, ruined, before finally building what works. And, big AND, all the bullets, powder I went though...I wish I would have started with a custom action and barrel. I like my Howa, but I wouldn't do it again. It really is a shame that the engineers took a great action and bastardized it with the mag set up. Live and learn. But if there is one caveat it's the learn. I learned how to bed a rifle, throat a chamber, weld glass filled polymer, trigger work.....Now I'm feeling like a custom project is not nearly as daunting.