Let's see your tikka's

Gunneegoogoo said:
Question for you guys.....

I'm a T3 lover, as is my wife, and my buddy. Our house has 2 .308 stainless T3 lite's, and a .300WSM Super Varmint Stainless. My Best friend has a LH T3 Lite Stainless .308.

All 3 of us can shoot the lights out with them, and they all cost us less than 1000$ each......

Lately I've been seeing some bashing on the T3's, and I really don't understand it..... I know the plastic bolt shroud can fail, but am I missing something else???

Thanks,

-J.
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Don't worry. Tikkas are fantastic. I have 3. The "bashers" often have a hard-on (I.e. An irrational, feeling based preference) for some "feature" the tikka doesn't have. Two examples that spring to mind are controlled round feed and a 3 lug bolt.

If a guy loves a brand for its 3 lug bolt, and a tikka shoots the pants off it for less money... Better go slag It on the Internet, and invent technical-sounding reasons why your preference is better.

If someone still believes push feed is no good after billions of rounds of push feed being fired every year by the boys in green... they don't have a rational objection, they have an emotional objection. CRF is fine, and push feed is fine.

As for plastic... Ask any US soldier if he'd rather have an all-metal M9, or a Glock as a sidearm.

The tikka has a very economical design. It is not a "cheap" rifle because that economical design is executed using extremely high quality materials and manufacturing.

Enjoy the bejeasus out of your Tikkas.
 
When I bought my t3 I was ready to swap out some parts with aluminum and replace the stock with a boyds. After installing receiver sights from skinner and a front sight kindly donated by The Kurgan and shooting and hunting with it a bit I don't know if I will change anything.

At this point I am just considering putting a pre-fit limbsaver on the synthetic stock and calling it a day. Bartledan your posts about having to use the aftermarket bottom metal with your boyds stocks have kind of reinforced this. The gun will likely stay a lightweight mountain rifle for now. I just love how well the factory stock fits me when the LOP is increased slightly.

Thinking my money might be better spent on a wooden stocked gun in another medium bore caliber to accompany it rather than more parts and gunsmithing.


Edit: I know it's a bad picture but here it is. T3 Lite in .338 win mag with battue front sight and skinner aperture sight on the reciever

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I agree with everything above.

My t3 super varmint wears a Boyd's adjustable stock for long range work, but I still have the factory "Tupperware" stock with the Kydex cheek rest if I go for moose/elk/sheep.

I need a longer LOP and adding a limbsaver or pachmayr does that nicely. The t3 lite fits my 5'1" wife nicely, and she can easily drive <1MOA with it.

One other thing I found a PITA is the 2 piece bases. I move scopes around a lot and they don't line up with regular picatinny spacings. Quick visit to tikkaperformance.com and that was solved!!!

Haters gonna hate....!!!!
 
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Nice Tikka's guys ! I especially like the SS T3 Varmint in McMillan stock, the T3 Forest in .270 and of course the M55 Deluxe.

Here is my 595 Continental. Hope you enjoy !







 
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T3 Hunter 300wm with Monarch3 2.5-10x50 on pictures now with Zeiss Conquest 3.5-10x44. I added a Limbsaver airtech pad recently

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Tube Stocked Varmint

T3 Varmint in 308. Factory action and barrel installed in a Competition Machine (Garry Eliseo) Light Weight Hunter tube stock with bipod. Magpul PRS butt stock, 10 round AICS mags, oversized bolt knob, aluminum bolt shroud.

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Tenguns said:
Same mag for the long cartridges. Mine will hold something up to 3.370" long.
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I should have added that I'm thinking about the Cadex chassis and that only works with tikka mags.. My bad. And if I stay with the factory stock ,I can use the AICS metal mags right?
 
Brianma65 said:
I should have added that I'm thinking about the Cadex chassis and that only works with tikka mags.. My bad. And if I stay with the factory stock ,I can use the AICS metal mags right?
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I think you should do a lot of research before you spend any money on a chassis.

I *think* the Cadex chassis only works with AICS mags, and not tikka mags. ***Edit: not true!***

I've *heard* that the Tikka action (all tikka actions are long) is too short for AICS long action magazines to work properly. I've heard the short action magazines work fine.

That means that you really can't put a long action Tikka in a chassis? Maybe? ***edit: nope!***

All of the above needs to be researched, because I don't know any of it for sure :)
 
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