Pillar Bedding Tikka T3

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Nickoslav

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Hello

Can anyone provide any advice, tips or help on either DIY Pillar bedding of a Tikka T3 or point me in the direction of someone who does this in Southern Ontario. My current factory T3 tactical shoots very well but i would like to upgrade the stock (mcmillan A3) and bed it, if its even necessary.

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I pillar bedded my T3 sporter. It was very straight forward. I used the pillars that came with Lumley arms bottom metal. I think you can buy a bedding kit on its own though.

I built a jig to hold the stock and then used a drill press to drill out the action screw holes. Then used Devcon 10110 to glue them in.

I also bedded the action right after installing the pillars.
 
Ok sounds good, kona i too am looking at the lumly arms bedding kit as well. It sounds simple enough, is there anything i should be careful about?

Guntech, i havent asked mcmillan, but i will, not a bad idea

tac guy can you shed any more light?
 
Nickoslav said:
Ok sounds good, kona i too am looking at the lumly arms bedding kit as well. It sounds simple enough, is there anything i should be careful about?

Guntech, i havent asked mcmillan, but i will, not a bad idea

tac guy can you shed any more light?
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i pillar bedded mine with a thin layer of Vaseline and devcon!! 3 inch group at 900 yards perfect conditions 260AI
 
Nickoslav said:
Ok sounds good, kona i too am looking at the lumly arms bedding kit as well. It sounds simple enough, is there anything i should be careful about?

Guntech, i havent asked mcmillan, but i will, not a bad idea

tac guy can you shed any more light?
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The biggest thing to think about is how you want to bed the recoil lug. You have to insure that the lug is in contact with the action. I used devcon to "bed" the lug into the slot in the action. Then I bedded the action and lug into the stock together and when I popped it out the lug stayed in the stock. (I put kiwi shoe polish on the action before bedding the lug to the action).

Since doing mine I read about a guy using shim stock to wedge the recoil in the slot. (with the wedges towards the rear with the lug contacting the front of the slot.) When I bed a tikka again I'll do it this way. Also when I rebarrel I will use a remington style recoil lug and ditch the tikka one all together.

Here is a pic of the jig I made to drill for pillars. And the bedding job after I popped the action out.

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If I were you I would upgrade the plastic stock to a mcmillan and then bed it with out pillars. Mcmillan will tell you that pillars aren't needed but to add them if you will sleep better at night.
 
BCBRAD said:
Tikka T3 Tactical, 300 WM, 208gr A-Max, H-1000, Vortex 4x16 PST FFP in Burris Signiture Zee Rings. YoDave spring set at 1.1 lb and steel recoil lug.
Its usually a 0.3 moa at 200m and ~0.7 moa further out.
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if you can shoot a 4 inch group 5 shot with a 4-16 1000 yards that is craziness buddy... Never heard of the likes!! Good for you.....I could never in this world do this ####, I need a 12-50x56 Schmidt and bender to even be an the same page!!!that is a whole lot lot of kickin butt right there......
 
The Tactical Guy said:
if you can shoot a 4 inch group 5 shot with a 4-16 1000 yards that is craziness buddy... Never heard of the likes!! Good for you.....I could never in this world do this ####, I need a 12-50x56 Schmidt and bender to even be an the same page!!!that is a whole lot lot of kickin butt right there......
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Got lucky that day, but I shoot a lot and am real fussy on the hand loads, plus the conditions were very good, there were 4 others in the 4" zone that day.
 
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