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HOWA Golden Bear

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I found and bought a HOWA Golden Bear a few weeks ago. Very interesting rifle, needs a few parts to get it back in running order. The barrel is pitted pretty bad, so I am looking for a replacement 30-06 to fit the L61R action. The bolt stop/ejector pin and housing is broken, so I am looking for one of them as well.
The wood stock looked plain and boring, with a poorly fitted hard rubber but pad, the grip cap and fore end cap (rosewood) also seemed to have missed the finish sanding step. I got out some 320 grit and proceeded to blend things in.... Not long after I began sanding some really pretty grain started showing up, I am almost sure the Japanese applied stain to the grain to blend it in with the rest of the stock, I have no other explanation for it. The stock now looks great. Anyway if anyone can point me in the direction of some parts for this rifle it would help out alot.
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David
 
Ah! The Dickson-Howa Golden Bear!

Stories abound on this Finnbear duplicate. Which of them are true I can't say. All I can say for sure is that the gun is a dimesional exact duplicate of the L61R Finnbear, right down to the contours of the stock. The safety thumb slide is a tad different in shape, and the bottom metal is entirely different, being aluminum with an integral magazine box. Otherwise, they seem identical. I have one and the bolt will interchange with a three-lug Sako as if they were made side-by-side on the same assembly line.

They were imported for only a couple of years until -- apparently -- a patent infringement suit took them off of the market. I have only seen them in .30-06. My "holy grail" would be a factory Howa Golden Bear in some other caliber. By the way, I have no notion as to where the name "Dickson" came from. Howa is still making quality firearms, both under their own name and for others like Weatherby.

I took mine to Africa as back-up rifle and actually used it to take a couple of head of game. It is not quite as accurate as most of my Sakos, but is a very serviceable rifle.

So far as I am aware, any Sako barrel would screw into your action. You could use anything from a .25-06 to a .270 or an original .30-06. There was actually a guy on Gunbroker a few months ago with a new D-H barrel for sale, but he wanted more than it seemed worth.

PM me about the parts you need. I might be able to help.
 
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