Free-floating Tikka T3 with Synthetic Stock
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I never did free-float thsi rifle. I swapped the scope and started getting good results. Never buy a used scope is the lesson I learned.
Free floating a Tikka to deal with the over heating issue is still an interesting idea. I wonder if anyone has tried it.
Free floating a Tikka to deal with the over heating issue is still an interesting idea. I wonder if anyone has tried it.
Should read .... "Never buy a cheap used scope".
I've bought at least a couple dozen used Leupolds over the yrs as well as some higher end Bushnells and only had a problem with one. Don't buy cheap scopes, new or used, is the lesson I learned.
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I have a SSS 223 & it's only floated to about 6" ahead of reciever. The barrel rides on that little hump, I suspected?? the hump was to take some of the spring out of the stock when shooting off bags?
As far as wood stocks, their nice looking but I got tired of chasing zero in my .280 Ruger-77 & was very happy to swap a cheapy plastic piece on it. It does shoot a little better but most important it's consistant day-to-day
I found my other wood Ruger 77 suddenly started to shoot bad this year & discovered that little hump on both sides of the bottom of the reciever rails 2/3 the way down had started to sit on the upper flat of the stock?? I suspect over the years the torque from the action screws have warped the stock permanently causing to to hit, hogged out a little wood & it shoots well again.
Sure would like to find a maker of a "plastic" stock for a Tang short action M-77?
As far as wood stocks, their nice looking but I got tired of chasing zero in my .280 Ruger-77 & was very happy to swap a cheapy plastic piece on it. It does shoot a little better but most important it's consistant day-to-day
I found my other wood Ruger 77 suddenly started to shoot bad this year & discovered that little hump on both sides of the bottom of the reciever rails 2/3 the way down had started to sit on the upper flat of the stock?? I suspect over the years the torque from the action screws have warped the stock permanently causing to to hit, hogged out a little wood & it shoots well again.
Sure would like to find a maker of a "plastic" stock for a Tang short action M-77?
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Hhhmmm, just saw this thread, interesting. I have a T3 6.5x55 that I have bedding in a wood stock. I have a plastic stock as well and swap them back and forth as the weather changes. POI never moves.. The plastic stock is free floated and came that way.
Quote Here's one for you, How do you bed a T3?........
No one knows because it has never needed to be done.
Seriously, have you ever heard of a T3 that needed a beding job. You are the first person that I have heard of that is going to attempt altering the stock (synthetic) in any way. I would like to hear from others that have as well.
Never heard of it either, never done it!!!
I own 7 T-3s, and even with the yes crapy looking stock, I will not dare to touch them! I do not even like taking them apart to clean them, in fear I tweak something, they shoot that good
No one knows because it has never needed to be done.
Seriously, have you ever heard of a T3 that needed a beding job. You are the first person that I have heard of that is going to attempt altering the stock (synthetic) in any way. I would like to hear from others that have as well.
Never heard of it either, never done it!!!
I own 7 T-3s, and even with the yes crapy looking stock, I will not dare to touch them! I do not even like taking them apart to clean them, in fear I tweak something, they shoot that good
Originally Posted by bill c68 View Post
I have 2 synthetic T3s and both are free floated and both were bought new... I can easily slip a bill down the barrel all the way to the chamber. I just assumed they were all that way.
I have 2 T3's bought new.
One is a varmint, one a T3 lite.
A crisp new 100 dollar bill slides easy then stops a few inches from the rear of the barrel on both guns.
At the range this fall I only needed to shoot 2 groups with my T3 lite in 30 06.
Both under 3/4 inch.
I believe the gun will hold to 1 1/2 inch all year regardless of temperature and humidity.
Do I need better, nope.
I have 2 synthetic T3s and both are free floated and both were bought new... I can easily slip a bill down the barrel all the way to the chamber. I just assumed they were all that way.
I have 2 T3's bought new.
One is a varmint, one a T3 lite.
A crisp new 100 dollar bill slides easy then stops a few inches from the rear of the barrel on both guns.
At the range this fall I only needed to shoot 2 groups with my T3 lite in 30 06.
Both under 3/4 inch.
I believe the gun will hold to 1 1/2 inch all year regardless of temperature and humidity.
Do I need better, nope.
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I bedded a T3
My 6.5x55 has 2 stocks, the plastic one is the origianl and the walnut one is from another gun. Shooting both stocks with the same load, on the same day gave slightly different groups, the walnut was a bit bigger, about 1.5 inches with a flyer, the plastic just kept givin' .75 all day long. Both barrels appeared to be floated so I couldn't figure out why the walnut gave a different group. It was safe to say the the plastic stock fit "tighter", the action dropped into the walnut very easily, the plastic needed a bit of help to get it in. I was playing with both on them one evening and tried to move the action in the stocks WITHOUT the action screws. The plastic stock gave no movement, but when I "pushed and pulled" the action in the walnut stock, I heard a "click". So what I mean is that I put one hand on the stock and the other on the barrel, with the barrel pointing under my arm and pulled the barrel straight forward, then pushed it back...the clicking was the bedding block moving against the cutout on the action. The action was moving back and forth just a tiny bit...I couldn't feel it, but could hear it. Bedding was the same as any other, steel epoxy and a bunch of Q-tips, now both stocks shoot to the same POI.
My 6.5x55 has 2 stocks, the plastic one is the origianl and the walnut one is from another gun. Shooting both stocks with the same load, on the same day gave slightly different groups, the walnut was a bit bigger, about 1.5 inches with a flyer, the plastic just kept givin' .75 all day long. Both barrels appeared to be floated so I couldn't figure out why the walnut gave a different group. It was safe to say the the plastic stock fit "tighter", the action dropped into the walnut very easily, the plastic needed a bit of help to get it in. I was playing with both on them one evening and tried to move the action in the stocks WITHOUT the action screws. The plastic stock gave no movement, but when I "pushed and pulled" the action in the walnut stock, I heard a "click". So what I mean is that I put one hand on the stock and the other on the barrel, with the barrel pointing under my arm and pulled the barrel straight forward, then pushed it back...the clicking was the bedding block moving against the cutout on the action. The action was moving back and forth just a tiny bit...I couldn't feel it, but could hear it. Bedding was the same as any other, steel epoxy and a bunch of Q-tips, now both stocks shoot to the same POI.
