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Post by Hardrada55 on May 8, 2010 21:41:26 GMT -5
The Japanese Howa company made M1 carbines after WWII. In the early 1960s, they imported into the US a sporter variant of the M1 called the Howa Model 300. Some were equiped with a scope. These guns used a type of .30 Carbine cartridge with a soft point bullet. This Japanese sporting version of the .30 Carbine was referred to as the .30 AOA, after the Asahi-Okuma Arms Co. Ltd., the ammunition company in Japan that made these cartridges. They apparently thought this would be a gun for deer and bears! Cool little carbine....I think I'd like to have one.
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Post by rmh on Aug 3, 2010 14:27:56 GMT -5
Wasn't the H&R Ultra Auto rifle, offered back in the 1960s(?) made by Howa in Japan?
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Post by Hardrada55 on Aug 7, 2013 9:39:00 GMT -5
Now for sale in Japan, Howa 300. Only 95,000 yen ($979). Actually a pretty nice looking rifle. I wonder how hard it would be to import?
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Post by Hardrada55 on Apr 6, 2014 9:04:46 GMT -5
Found this picture on a Japanese site.
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Post by Hardrada55 on Apr 14, 2014 18:31:41 GMT -5
Another Howa M300 and an Axis deer(?). Dressing out a buck, this picture is so familiar yet in this context so....different. I think I may be related somehow to these guys. In heart, if not in soul.
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