AusVarmint

I'm after a stainless Howa and noticed on the Legacy sports page that Howa's are listed as either blued or Grey Cerakoted, yet Australian gunshops list them as stainless.
So are Howa's stainless or just cerakoted to look stainless?

The one I had was definitely stainless


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how can you tell the difference between a cerakoted firearm and a stainless one?

my cerakoted rifle scratches

As tempting as it is.
I"M NOT GOING TO TRY TO SCRATCH MY NEW RIFLE.

bsg wrote:As tempting as it is.
I"M NOT GOING TO TRY TO SCRATCH MY NEW RIFLE.

Havago ya mug, take it out of the stock and try a little bit on the barrel reinforce just in front of the action, no one will know.

I read something about a recent change where they stopped making stainless and are using the Lithgow method where you either buy a black or silver rifle. I suppose it saves them having 2 different production setups.

There definitely were stainless ones in the past.

GregT wrote:I read something about a recent change where they stopped making stainless and are using the Lithgow method where you either buy a black or silver rifle. I suppose it saves them having 2 different production setups.

There definitely were stainless ones in the past.

Yep, sure were. My 7-08 is stainless.
... and yes Missed, that is "that" scope.....

They also had a recall on several hundred or thousand stainless ones to.

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curan wrote:

GregT wrote:I read something about a recent change where they stopped making stainless and are using the Lithgow method where you either buy a black or silver rifle. I suppose it saves them having 2 different production setups.

There definitely were stainless ones in the past.

Yep, sure were. My 7-08 is stainless.

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... and yes Missed, that is "that" scope.....

It is a long time since I looked through that scope