Howa M1500 Alpine Mountain

About the Howa M1500 Alpine Mountain

The Howa M1500 Alpine Mountain is a lightweight bolt-action mountain rifle built on Howa Machinery's M1500 barreled action in Japan and configured for backcountry stalking and hunting. Chambered primarily in .308 Winchester (with 7mm-08 Remington and .243 Winchester also offered), it pairs a 20-inch free-floated, threaded barrel with a slimmed, hand-wrapped pillar-bedded fiberglass stock to keep bare weight down to roughly 5.75 lb. The action uses Howa's forged one-piece bolt with twin locking lugs and a three-position safety, and it wears a Cerakote finish over the action and barrel for weather resistance in exposed alpine conditions. It feeds from a five-round internal magazine with a hinged floorplate and breaks with the adjustable two-stage HACT (Howa Actuator Controlled Trigger), and Howa guarantees sub-MOA accuracy from the glass-bedded, free-floated setup.

Named for the alpine hunting it was built for, Howa's Alpine trims its already sub-MOA M1500 action into a sub-6-pound mountain rifle by wrapping it in a hand-laid fiberglass stock and Cerakote armor - the same barreled action that underpins the Weatherby Vanguard.

Howa M1500 Alpine Mountain specifications

Sold in Europe and the UK as the Howa Alpine (distributed by Highland Outdoors) and in North America as the Howa M1500 Alpine Mountain Rifle through Legacy Sports International, sometimes packaged with a Vortex Viper scope. The lightweight fiberglass stock has been associated with Bansner/Legendary Arms Works production. The underlying M1500 barreled action is the same platform sold internationally as the Weatherby Vanguard.