Howa HS Precision (need to bed?)

[jlmatthew]

My son bought me a Howa HS Precision in 300 PRC for my birthday. For those of you that own the HS Precision version did you bed them? Or have the been decent shooters right out of the box?

thanks!

 

[nhenry]

My son bought me a Howa HS Precision in 300 PRC for my birthday. For those of you that own the HS Precision version did you bed them? Or have the been decent shooters right out of the box?

thanks!

I’d bed even if it does shoot well honestly. Just the recoil lug and tang, though. Can’t hurt and it’s hard to mess up

 

[turbobrick]

HSP used to advertise that their heavy stocks, not the ones that you would get on an OEM rifle, were intended to have the action screws torqued to a certain higher value and not be bedded at all. I've had a couple of their normal stocks, including the short forend hunting one I still have on my -06. I never bedded them, and they shot really well. From my experience, their 700 footprint stuff fits really, really well, but a good bed job is usually a benefit.

 

[dranrab]

I have two factory rifles with HSP stocks. Both are exceptionally accurate as they came from the factory. Shoot it first.

 

[Forkyfinder]

Id always just shoot it to find out.

 

[jlmatthew]

I have two factory rifles with HSP stocks. Both are exceptionally accurate as they came from the factory. Shoot it first.

I plan to and if its a good shooter I'll leave it alone. I was just curious of others experiences with them

appreciate the feedback boys

 

[perma]

Id always just shoot it to find out.

This.

But if you’re like me, bored and just don’t know how to leave things as is, I’d bed it. I took a perfectly good shooting rifle on a custom stock, shot 0.75” and bedded it. All cuz I was bored.

 

[Sheltowee]

[Paging @p_ham, @p_ham you are need in Aisle 13]

Defer to the real expert tagged above, but I would think that the aluminum bedding block would remove the need for epoxy bedding. Of course, only way to find out is to shoot the darn thing, as several others have suggested.

 

[p_ham]

[Paging @p_ham, @p_ham you are need in Aisle 13]

Defer to the real expert tagged above, but I would think that the aluminum bedding block would remove the need for epoxy bedding. Of course, only way to find out is to shoot the darn thing, as several others have suggested.

Bedding is to make up for any machining/ inletting imperfections to give the action a perfect mating surface. There can still be issues even with an aluminum bedding block.

That being said, Howa's usually shoot pretty good right out of the box. I'd check the action screw torque and get some range time before bedding.