With my Howa 243 I have persevered with the standard floorplate, but wanted to be able to use a detachable 5-shot AICS mag (MDT) for dog shooting.
What usually happens is I hear a dog howling, or a neighbour rings about howling over the fence, whatever. I grab the dog rifle and ammo and have to lickety split do everything at 1000mph.
Way better for this task (for me) is to grab a mag with 5 cartridges and head out, and not fumble about loading through a port in the dark. These Howas can be really f'ed up if you don't push the cartridges right back against the rear stop. No dramas with a detachable mag.
Dogs cause such financial loss and animal distress and any fumble, time wasted or heaven forbid, a jam-up has to be eliminated.
Anyway I had a discussion with Colin from Atlasworx and we picked the right one. There are different versions with shorter paddles, in-trigger guard releases, badger footprints etc but this one went straight into the Hogue full-bedding block stock.
Huge big triggerguard to suit gloved fingers, but remember that on Howas, when you cock the action the trigger clicks forward about 6mm or so.
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May not suit all people, or some may think it's ugly, but to me working better is beauty.
