Tikka build? Whos gonna talk me into a custom?
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1. Not sure. If there were they'd probably be twice as much.
2. None
3. Why?
I just now went down this road as well. SOO glad I did it. This Tikka is soo nice just out of the box that I feel (of course everything we feel is purely a matter of personal opinion) it's one of the best inexpensive factory rifles that can be had. I bought a .270 superlite for 750 as a donor. Punched the bore, free floated the barrel (no, it was not free floated)threw an Mcarbo spring in it and tuned it at the lightest setting, threw together some haphazard hand loads, and shot this thing into consistent 3/4" groups EASY. Started at the bottom of the berger loading manual, and this thing fed soo smooth I thought I wasn't picking up any rounds and hardly zero kick. It wasn't the high end German guns I remember handling in the Rod and Gun club in Germany where I was stationed as a kid smooth, but DAM close, but those guns were double this price, and honestly too nice to take out in the field.
At any rate, I'm doing the same thing; I sent this thing off to Douglas for a new threaded heavy barrel, and will bed it into a Mcmillan A3 when it gets back, and I know it's going to be a really nice handling tack driver. So yea, I purchased basically a 750 dollar action, and dont regret it one bit. So 800 with shipping, say 500 for a KRG Xray chassis, and 500 for Douglas to screw a nice barrel on, and you're at 1800 less the scope and bipod. Not a bad rig honestly.
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Tikka T3 / T3x and Sako 75, 85, A7 trigger springs
Tikka T3 / T3x and Sako 75, 85, A7 trigger springs
I'm sure there's a few others you can get that do the same thing also.
The tikka is a superb factory action. It's probably one of the smoothest and it's consistent enough that I make shouldered prefits for them. In fact, we launched that particular segment of the market.
If you're building a hunting rifle and you're not concerned with being able to put on a 4oz competition trigger then there's not much downside to a Tikka for your son.
The big thing is going to be not to skimp on the barrel. You'll get much farther down the accuracy road spending more money on a barrel than you will on the action.
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If you're building a hunting rifle and you're not concerned with being able to put on a 4oz competition trigger then there's not much downside to a Tikka for your son.
The big thing is going to be not to skimp on the barrel. You'll get much farther down the accuracy road spending more money on a barrel than you will on the action.
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I need to get a hold of you all to do a 6.5cm barrel for my Tikka 18-20" M24 contour and threading for an OTB suppressor, just didn't know what your lead times looked like..The tikka is a superb factory action. It's probably one of the smoothest and it's consistent enough that I make shouldered prefits for them. In fact, we launched that particular segment of the market.
If you're building a hunting rifle and you're not concerned with being able to put on a 4oz competition trigger then there's not much downside to a Tikka for your son.
The big thing is going to be not to skimp on the barrel. You'll get much farther down the accuracy road spending more money on a barrel than you will on the action.
Osprey 22 caliber Prefit Barrels - All Actions
Precision rifle prefit barrels for all actions, custom ordered and ready to install. No machining or gunsmithing required. Match winning Osprey barrels by Patriot Valley Arms; we Engineer Repeatability. 100% Made in USA
I can confirm that. I spent 20 minutes gossiping with Mike over at Criterion, and he confirmed the barrel nut. Criterion felt that they couldn't make shouldered pre-fits to sufficient tolerances and thus were "forced" into using barrel nuts.
Cheers!
As of last year PVA was making the barrel nuts that NSS is selling.
We make shouldered prefits for Tikkas.
Prefit Barrels with Osprey blanks
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Well I bought the tikka. Left hand in 22-250. Also got a MDT XRS chassis in FDE. Gonna let Sonny boy pick out a tacticool bolt knob and we are gonna burn up that factory barrel on some P dogs. And he will burn it up. Last time out he started my suppressor cover on fire shooting his 243 AR10. This after many requests to slow down the rate of fire.
Lol!
This time, don’t put a cover on the can.
The mirage will likely be a self-limiting factor upon his trigger finger! He won’t be able to see squat through the scope, just wobbly jumping blurs.
This is good advice! I am left handed I have the tikka T3X Tac came in 6.5 I now have a Bartline Barrel in 6 Dasher it is a Tack driver I shoot f-class 300,600,&1000 yards I have done a lot of upgrades to get it competitive. But as mentioned by many it still falls short in sone areas!! I just purchased a full blown custom.
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Dropped a plain Jane tikka t3 in a MDT XRS chassis. Makes for a fantastic rig. Grabbed some of my handloads from another rifle to break it in and it shot fantastic. 10 rounds on the magneto, cook up some range dope and sonny boy was taking head shots on coyote steel at 425 and smoking the 600 yard IPSC plate. I think I need to dump my salvage and build one for myself.
Looks nice.
How do you like using the tripod up front? Any advantage over a bipod?
Who makes the rings, and how tall are they?
That's about as far back as you can get the tripod with that particular arca rail. It's much much more stable than a bipod. They are vortex rings. I think high. They are much too high but it's what I had on hand and my son liked how they look so we kept them.
I am looking for a set of high rings. I thought they only made low rings, though.
