tikka T3 rifles
10-25-2006, 09:35 PM
#51
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pine Hill Alabama USA
Posts: 1,280
RE: tikka T3 rifles
What kind of factory ammo have you guys had luck with?
One more question though, should I be using some sort of lock tight? It looks like there was originaly some used...?
10-25-2006, 09:47 PM
#52
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pine Hill Alabama USA
Posts: 1,280
RE: tikka T3 rifles
You guys have me fired up with all these awesome groups your shooting.
10-26-2006, 12:01 PM
#53
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 248
RE: tikka T3 rifles
ORIGINAL: Todd1700
Think you're fired up now. Wait till you get out there and shoot a group like this with factory ammo.
You guys have me fired up with all these awesome groups your shooting.
On the LOCKTITE...UseFINGERNAIL polish! Easy to get off and won't gum anything up.
10-26-2006, 07:50 PM
#54
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 4
RE: tikka T3 rifles
Thats a great idea with the nailpolish. Thanks. Don't know why cleaning it ever changed the trigger in the first place but I know it got a lot lighter after wards. In fact when it was finished I would work the action and it would fire. Has anyone else had this happen?Eventually after cleaning it again and running the action it got better but never back to normal until now.
10-29-2006, 08:31 PM
#55
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 248
RE: tikka T3 rifles
I took my tikka 300wsm out to the range again today. Weather was alot more condusive today. I still had to shoot a few at 50yds to get it close. My first 2 shots at 100yd were a click low and 3" to the left. I moved it over and up and I put the next 3 2" high dead center. It was shooting very close to a 1" grouping. After 8 or 9 shots that gun starts to get to you a little...I knowIwas flinching some.Plus I'm shooting off towels which aren't the greatest rest. I wish I had a lead sled to see what it will really do. Either way I dare ole bucky to come by me with it.
10-31-2006, 04:26 PM
#56
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Monroe County, NY / Mercer County, NJ
Posts: 225
RE: tikka T3 rifles
When I was at Dick's last week I took a look at a Tikka T3 Lite Stainless they had there. It was one of the rifles I was considering buying once I get my firearms purchaser's card. After looking here it seems like there really isn't anything bad anyone's saying about them, and $500 was less than I thought I'd be spending on a rifle too. I'm gonna probably go for 7mm-08 or .30-06.
10-31-2006, 04:36 PM
#57
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 248
RE: tikka T3 rifles
I've always been a remington person but after feeling and shooting my new Tikka its going to be hard spending money on something different. Ok.maybe I'll splurge one day and get me a Sako. I'm thinking about getting my wife a 7-08 in the t3 also. And like you said $498 for a black on black syn you can't beat it.
10-31-2006, 06:53 PM
#59
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 248
RE: tikka T3 rifles
ORIGINAL: asttbe
I bought a t3 two years ago in .300wsm. I absolutely love it. It has definitely turned into my favorite rifle.
I bought a t3 two years ago in .300wsm. I absolutely love it. It has definitely turned into my favorite rifle.
Thanks!
10-31-2006, 07:04 PM
#60
Join Date: Oct 2006
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RE: tikka T3 rifles
I'm using Federal Premium Vital Shocks. I'd like to reload but I really don't need another hobby. I work offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and I am gone every other month. Don't want to spend my time off messing with a reloader.