Welcome Dustin, Pull up a log a set a spell, You have a VANGARD?
great choice for a rifle AND! in 7MAG! thank your dad from us here, I did my home work
and for the price you got a keeper for a rifle. I always change the trigger and bed the action.
I hope you don't have a cheap scope, a cheap scope just makes a good rifle a bad shooter.
I had little information on the HOWA and its as good a Remington in my opinion.