After having studying the 204 caliber for a little while i decided to let myself loose on a new rifle.
I had been looking at 3 models in particular which were:
- Savage model 25 lightweight varminter
- Remington 700 vssf II
- Tikka T3 Stainless varmint
Read some reviews on all those rifles, even with the big price difference between the savage and the 2 others i opted to pay for the tikka. It was one hell of a fine rifle! The action i so smooth i couldn't pass on it. Although the vssf II had the nice HS Precision stock and a 26inch barrel. The action wasn't as smooth and already having a rem 700 action 308, and knowing how much money i had to put on it to get it shooting as i liked it (trigger, new barrel since it had a long throat, etc) i knew i was going to have to put money on that one as well! And lets just say it the weight was well ughhh yeah you get the point. Also being that the vssf II is discontinued by rem that also made me click that there must be a reason. Anyhow a couple days later....
Topped off with a Bushnell Legend Ultra HD 4.5-14x44mm i hope it will perform great!
I started by loading some 32grain Blitzking in nosler brass with some H-4895. Probably will be testing them out tomorrow. They seem to claim to be free floating out of the box which is not the case at all with this one. If i see that the OCW test dont give me good results i will have to check this problem out. I have read online that i am not the first one to encounter this and that honestly it still shoots great. Guess we will just have to wait and see!
I had been looking at 3 models in particular which were:
- Savage model 25 lightweight varminter
- Remington 700 vssf II
- Tikka T3 Stainless varmint
Read some reviews on all those rifles, even with the big price difference between the savage and the 2 others i opted to pay for the tikka. It was one hell of a fine rifle! The action i so smooth i couldn't pass on it. Although the vssf II had the nice HS Precision stock and a 26inch barrel. The action wasn't as smooth and already having a rem 700 action 308, and knowing how much money i had to put on it to get it shooting as i liked it (trigger, new barrel since it had a long throat, etc) i knew i was going to have to put money on that one as well! And lets just say it the weight was well ughhh yeah you get the point. Also being that the vssf II is discontinued by rem that also made me click that there must be a reason. Anyhow a couple days later....
Topped off with a Bushnell Legend Ultra HD 4.5-14x44mm i hope it will perform great!
I started by loading some 32grain Blitzking in nosler brass with some H-4895. Probably will be testing them out tomorrow. They seem to claim to be free floating out of the box which is not the case at all with this one. If i see that the OCW test dont give me good results i will have to check this problem out. I have read online that i am not the first one to encounter this and that honestly it still shoots great. Guess we will just have to wait and see!
