Howa mini mods

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Howa mini mods

Post by Oldbloke » 09 Mar 2023, 12:21 pm

Years ago a shortened a mag for a 22lr. I don't like long protruding magazines

Decided to search for same thing for the Howa mini rifle as it's a common complaint:

1. Magazine is too long.
2. Magazine drops out because latch is too long and gets lost.

So here is a solution.

To shorten the mag,
https://youtu.be/zxLEMfYuIn4

https://www.firearmstalk.com/threads/ho ... on.146219/

I would paint the Magazine red.

Shorten the latch as many do.
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Re: Howa mini mods

Post by JohnV » 09 Mar 2023, 2:22 pm

Only rifle I have a magazine on is a Brno 22 . All the rest are hinged floor plates and one the blind magwell is part of the alloy stock .
Not a big fan of magazines on hunting rifles but sometimes you can't avoid them . Sometimes I don't like pin ejectors either and I remove it from my spotlighting rifle so I don't loose brass . Not a fan of short actions either I like to have some options to seat out bullets and extend the hinged floor plate magwell to take longer ammo .
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Post by Oldbloke » 09 Mar 2023, 3:44 pm

All my centre fires are blind mags. Only my 2 brnos have mags.

But it's an option for the many howa mini owners out there.
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Post by northdude » 09 Mar 2023, 4:50 pm

its a bit of a tinkerers rifle I've also got a you tube vid on a couple of things to do on the howa mini as well
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Post by northdude » 10 Mar 2023, 5:03 pm

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Post by Oldbloke » 10 Mar 2023, 5:36 pm

northdude wrote:https://youtu.be/IAdR9ezUPgg



Tnx ND
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