Tikka upgrades?

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DownWind737

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I bought a Tikka T3X lite Veil Wideland in 300wm a couple years ago and absolutely love it. But I'm wondering what upgrades I can do to it to make it a little more accurate. Out of the factory it came with a fluted semi-heavy barrel, fluted bolt, over sized knob, muzzle break, cerakoted. Could I upgrade the trigger? Should I bed the barrel? Anything else?
I already have a good handload that is giving consistent 3/4" groups.
 
Mcarbo trigger spring, super cheap upgrade and dead-simple. Titanium recoil lug helps with deformation, especially with magnums. I suppose you could pillar bed it if you wanted, but if it's already shooting well in the factory plastic I'd probably leave it.
 
bcsteve said:
Leave it alone.
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This ^^ hate to see your expression when you bed the rifle and it doesn't shoot as good as it did.
However you can check out cortacsolutions dot com and upgrade the trigger guard and get a better recoil lug but I would not mess too much with something that shoots 3/4 MOA if you bought a precision competition winning rig then I would say it is toast - however with a hunting rifle it's just fine. BTW I am happy with just over MOA on my hunting rifles -
 
Jahnj0584 said:
I can see why he'd feel like he should, i shoot 0.6 MOA out of a stock ruger with factory ammo that was probably half the price....
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Exactly
This is why when I sold off my Tikka's I bought a Savage Axis not the coolest gun on the rack but it shoots beyond it's price point with a commercial spring brought down the trigger pull to 3 pounds
 
The only thing I'm looking to change on mine is the mags. I keep wearing out the mags on my 223, the bullets tip up and the bolt doesn't pick them up. Looks like in the uk or nz they have a mag with steel lips available. Can't seem to find them here. I've been looking to repair my mags, or replace with a better bottom metal and mag system. It's a piss off because for the price of the mags you'd expect them to work.
 
Brad243 said:
The only thing I'm looking to change on mine is the mags. I keep wearing out the mags on my 223, the bullets tip up and the bolt doesn't pick them up. Looks like in the uk or nz they have a mag with steel lips available. Can't seem to find them here. I've been looking to repair my mags, or replace with a better bottom metal and mag system. It's a piss off because for the price of the mags you'd expect them to work.
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Can you heat the lips up a bit to push them back down by the amount theyve worn, or glue something to the underside to rebuild?
 
Yo Dave spring - same concept as Macarbo but from Canada
Otherwise just shoot it. I like my Tikkas and they all shoot well and the only upgrade is the spring. May put them in different stocks/chassis but does not need it to shoot well.
 
Yes you can glue a piece of thin gauge sheet metal inside the lips to repair them like I did, but you shouldn't have to. Tikka magazines suck.
 
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3/4” is plenty good for a hunting rifle, but you could do a trigger spring, change out the recoil lug, put a Wildcat aftermarket stock on it, you could take it a step further and add an aftermarket barrel, KS Arms, Benchmark or Bartlein but for a hunting rifle the cost is hardly worth it to gain a slight increase in accuracy.
 
weatherby fan said:
3/4” is plenty good for a hunting rifle, but you could do a trigger spring, change out the recoil lug, put a wildcat aftermarket stock on it, you could take it a step further and add an aftermarket barrel, ks arms, benchmark or bartlein but for a hunting rifle the cost is hardly worth it to gain a slight increase in accuracy.
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Trigger Spring is Cheap works Great ! ;) RJ
 
You only live once. Ditch the tupperware and drop it into a McMillan or Manners stock

YoDave if you want a lighter trigger

Get it cerakoted a different color
 
mineguy said:
Yo Dave spring - same concept as Macarbo but from Canada
Otherwise just shoot it. I like my Tikkas and they all shoot well and the only upgrade is the spring. May put them in different stocks/chassis but does not need it to shoot well.
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Put a Yo Dave spring in mine and it won't adjust any lower than stock at 2.5 lbs. Contacted Yo Dave and was told it should lighten up with use and to wash the trigger assembly out with lighter fluid to clean any factory oil out and leaves a light film of lube in it. Used contact cleaner as I didn't have any lighter fluid, have shot it a bunch and it hasn't changed really at all. Maybe something wrong with mine or try a another brand of spring.
 
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