Anybody hunting a CTR?

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Any of you fellas hunting a Tikka CTR? If so, how do you find the carrying/pointability etc and shooting offhand if need be? Not too front heavy or awkward?
 
Mine is balanced very nice. I have read of guys removing the rear butt pad and throwing some lead shot and filling with spray foam to help it out a bit and get rid of that hollow feel but I'm happy with mine. Its a 6.5 PRC.
 
I hunt with mine. 20” in 6.5 creed. It is a little heavy but a very handy size with the short barrel. I just put it in a GRS Hunter Light stock and it’s even better offhand now. I wouldn’t want to hike too far with it but I’m a fan.
 
hunter-4-life said:
Mine is balanced very nice. I have read of guys removing the rear butt pad and throwing some lead shot and filling with spray foam to help it out a bit and get rid of that hollow feel but I'm happy with mine. Its a 6.5 PRC.
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Cool! at least with the T3x they put that foam insert in the butt...could be improved upon probably but better than nothing!

Jon87 said:
I hunt with mine. 20” in 6.5 creed. It is a little heavy but a very handy size with the short barrel. I just put it in a GRS Hunter Light stock and it’s even better offhand now. I wouldn’t want to hike too far with it but I’m a fan.
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That sounds like a really nice setup.

Would be a good factory option to have one fluted, save a couple ounces out front at least. Kinda like a shorter barreled Roughtech
 
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Just asking .. what's your application ,
why do you want or need one ? it's kinda a specialized rifle , or is this conversation only
 
I use a CTR to hunt. I also run varmint barrels on the action. Never really noticed an issue with weight, I’ve always hated pencil barrels so I just hunt with heavy profile barrels and stopped noticing it. My elk rifle with a heavy barrel is just shy of 12lbs. Which isn’t heavy but isn’t light when it comes to rifles.

I try to never take off hand shots if I can help it so I get better accuracy but just practice at the range and you will get better. Think of it like lifting weights the more you do it the easier it gets.

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bdb.hunting said:
I use a CTR to hunt. I also run varmint barrels on the action. Never really noticed an issue with weight, I’ve always hated pencil barrels so I just hunt with heavy profile barrels and stopped noticing it. My elk rifle with a heavy barrel is just shy of 12lbs. Which isn’t heavy but isn’t light when it comes to rifles.

I try to never take off hand shots if I can help it so I get better accuracy but just practice at the range and you will get better. Think of it like lifting weights the more you do it the easier it gets.

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Can totally get on board with that. The offhand shot isn't ever really my goal, but running into or bumping game on the hike or situations like that happen too. Have just found with heavier barreled rifles in the past, like a Remington 700 SPS Tactical with 20" barrel that while the overall was only 7.5lb it felt a bit too front heavy or heavy overall, even though I've got/had rifles that are just as heavy.

Course, more working out, be that practice or in the gym is never a bad idea either hahahaha. Agree with you on the overly light barrels though. As it is, the Tikka is a wee bit light barrled for my tastes although I love them.
 
My 20 inch 223 is my go to for coyote calling. It handles quick with enough weight to be steady in awkward positions. It's plenty light enough for walks to and from the truck calling but if you're going to hike all day it would wear on you.
 
wannabe said:
Mine is an arctic and fairly front heavy
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Oh yeah? Wondered, with the laminate stock. Happy with it?

Black Cloud said:
My 20 inch 223 is my go to for coyote calling. It handles quick with enough weight to be steady in awkward positions. It's plenty light enough for walks to and from the truck calling but if you're going to hike all day it would wear on you.
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Gotcha. Sounds like a really good role for it.
 
My CTR left and my friends on the right. Both 20" 308 Stainless, both have incredible accuracy. Both shoot the same cartridges to the same accuracy and speed.

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I have two lighter barrelled rifles - Tikka 223 and Browning 243WSSM both are just right for the calibers that they are. Everything else is either a medium contour barrel or a couple of heavier contour barrels. Depending on what I'm hunting and the possible distances After those two lighter calibers I'd be shooting the next step up - which would be a 270. And when I hunt moose and elk I'll step upwards in caliber from there.
 
I have had one in .308 for a few years now, have taken bear, moose, Elk , Deer, managed to find a extra mag for cheap as when deep in the bush I like having extra ammo on me, I find the accuracy excellent, I shoot 168gr, have loaded 110gr with great results, am looking at bumping up to 178 gr. A friend shoots 178gr with varget powder and passed 5rnds over to me that grouped exceptionally well. I am running out of nosler bullets so it is driving me in this direction. I like the 10rnd mag and like how it holds and carries in the field. The Tikka bolt is very smooth and cycles and feeds well.

Dwane
 
Yours is sure getting a workout!

Thinking of giving one regular T3x bottom plastic and mag which should be quite a bit of weight loss
 
How is it a specialized rifle. A lot of people use heavy barrels when hunting and the rifle its self is not bad to walk around with. I hunted with an m14 clone in an aluminum stock for years. My ctr is a featherweight compared to it.
 
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