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Posted: 10/25/2004 3:59:56 PM EDT
[#1]
HOWA?
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Posted: 10/25/2004 4:02:59 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/25/2004 4:03:19 PM EDT
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Browning used to be made there but are not any longer, IIRC. You have to realize that Japan, as a whole, really doesn't care for guns at all. Shame in working in a gun factory, perhaps? Not to mention the cost of shipping them here & given the extremely tight market, what would they make?
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Posted: 10/25/2004 4:04:03 PM EDT
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They're pretty much banned there.
Of course, that hardly stops H&H from having their showrooms in Paris, London, and New York... |
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Posted: 10/25/2004 4:04:08 PM EDT
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IIRC there were a bunch of guns made in Japan and sold under the Ithaca Gun brand.
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Posted: 10/25/2004 4:04:15 PM EDT
[#6]
SKB
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Posted: 10/25/2004 4:07:23 PM EDT
[#7]
Howa's are made in Japan and are extremely well made, I have 2 of them. |
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Posted: 10/25/2004 4:09:44 PM EDT
[#8]
It is probably because the Japanese guns would be very expensive, and the market for expensive guns is small and highly competitive.
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Posted: 10/25/2004 4:10:50 PM EDT
[#9]
I currently have only one in 22-250. Helluva shooter. 
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Posted: 10/25/2004 4:22:23 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/25/2004 4:24:22 PM EDT
[#11]
Tokyo Marui makes some great guns, just ask Lumpy.
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Posted: 10/25/2004 4:26:53 PM EDT
[#12]
Soon most of our guns will come from Russia.
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Posted: 10/25/2004 4:28:14 PM EDT
[#13]
Weatherby makes some of their guns in Japan from Howa.
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Posted: 10/25/2004 4:28:32 PM EDT
[#14]
I think Howa also manufacturers the vanguard rifle for Weatherby.
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Posted: 10/25/2004 4:42:31 PM EDT
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The Vanguard is a Howa Lightning with some cosmetic changes. Precision shooting had an article about 5 years ago from a gunsmith who was highly impressed with them. Since the Howa's are machined useing CNC machines, very little is needed to done to them like square the action up and the bolt. The biggest improvement the Smith had to do was put McMillian stock on it and replace the hammer forged barrel with a custom barrel like a Schneider on it. |
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Posted: 10/25/2004 4:43:07 PM EDT
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WTF?
Howa used to make the AR-180 and used to make the Weatherby Mark V when they were made in Japan, They make the most excellent Howa 1500 bolt actions. I love mine. BTW, the Weatherby Vanguard is a relabelled Howa 1500, as were the Mossberg and S&W 1500 and 1700 rifles. Miroku makes ALL Browning firearms, excpet for the Pro 9 and Pro 40 handguns, the High Power, and the Gold shotgun. Citoris, Cynergs, BARs, BLRs, 22s, and Buckmarks are ALL Japanese. Miroku also sells its own line of shotguns under its own name outside the USA due to Browning's marketing agreement. SKB makes great shotguns, and makes the Weatherby Athena and Orion over/unders. That's a pretty hefty chunk of the world's sporting arms market right there. |
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Posted: 10/25/2004 4:45:00 PM EDT
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This Winchester 52b was made in Japan. (don't know when though) I've never shot it but it is one of the best looking rifles I've held.
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Posted: 10/25/2004 4:47:45 PM EDT
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Didn't they do some guns for Mossberg awhile back?
ETA: Missed that SWO_daddy thanks for the heads up! |
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Posted: 10/25/2004 4:50:01 PM EDT
[#19]
See my post above.
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Posted: 10/25/2004 4:50:45 PM EDT
[#20]
Yes, one of my Howa's is labeled "Mossberg 1500". |
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Posted: 10/25/2004 5:03:12 PM EDT
[#21]
Yes, that was it, all I could think of was Tikka |
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Posted: 10/25/2004 5:05:13 PM EDT
[#22]
shame. they were probably even better made than belgian brownings.
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Posted: 10/25/2004 5:06:41 PM EDT
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What do you mean "were"? Most Browning are still made in Japan. |
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Posted: 10/25/2004 5:07:14 PM EDT
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Tikka is Finnish. So is Nokia. Two companies often confused for Japanese. |
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Posted: 10/25/2004 5:11:04 PM EDT
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miroku makes (and made) the 'modern' 52b...both the winchester and browning versions.
miroku manufactures the winchester low walls and the browning citoris....whoops, swo beat me to the complete list! howa also makes some nice firearms. skb is up there. they don't have the european mystique (and often, not the european price!), but the workmanship is most often very solid. |
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Posted: 10/25/2004 5:13:10 PM EDT
[#26]
Miroku Firearms Manufacturing Company builds long guns for Browning too.
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Posted: 10/25/2004 5:17:22 PM EDT
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Soon most of our guns will come from Russia.
we should be so lucky!!! ihzmash, molot, tula, baikal, sestroretsk...all produce fine firearms. |
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Posted: 10/25/2004 5:23:54 PM EDT
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Miroku comes to mind.
Don't forget that they also made the AR-180 for a while. They can make them, they just can't own them. |
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Posted: 10/25/2004 5:25:51 PM EDT
[#29]
Don't forget that they also made the AR-180 for a while.
i thought howa made the 180. |
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