Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters As accurate as a Tikka T3 ???

What other production rifles do you suggest that are just as accurate as a Tikka T3?

Sako

Savage 110

I've owned a couple T3's. They've done just fine. Not much out there for them if you want to tinker with it but load tuning is all I ever needed to do. That said, everything else I've owned and shot has done just as well. That includes Rugers; M77, Hawkeye, No.1's, Remington 700's, Browning A-Bolts and a few Colt light rifles. to name a few.

The only rifle I have that will shoot with my T3 in my Vanguard.T3 is 25-06.Vanguard is .257 Weatherby.

My Savage 110 Predator will shoot as good or better than my T3, but it is heavier and not as smooth in the action.

My T3 may not be a prime example, as far as accuracy. I have done nothing to it. So far everything I have fed it has shot inside an inch. And those loads where from other guns and no load has been developed for it. I also maintains a very consistent point of aim with various bullets weights.

Might want to check out the Steyr Pro Hunters. I just picked one up for $650 from the factory, comes with an accuracy guarantee. I havent had a chance to get to the range yet but its one of the few Ive heard comapred to the Tikkas as far as accuracy. For what its worth my choice was between the Tikka and Steyr.

That's some funny shyt right there. The answer is nothing unless you happen onto a unicorn.

I have a couple of Sako A7s that will keep up with my T3s as will XBolts. I have a couple of Ruger American Predators, one in 223 and one in 243 that shoot amazingly good groups.

Bahaha,you guys crack me up

I have not owned a great many T-3's, five to be exact, but I have owned a great many Rem 700's, Win 70's, 3 or 4 Savages. And in my experience the T-3's have always been sub MOA out of the box whereas the other brands have always been hit or miss (bad pun) - I have had some of the other brands that would never be consistently sub-MOA no matter what was done to them, but to give credit some of them shot sub-MOA out of the box but not very many.

Basing my opinion on my experiences I believe that in its price range you are much more likely to get a T-3 that is an out of the box shooter.

drover

Not to be hateful. How many T3s have you owned/shot/loaded?

I am obviously not the only one who has had 'exceptional' accuracy from T3s out of the box.

TC Venture in 6.5x284, shot 3/4" groups from the get go with 140 Bergers and Nosler BT's. Ruger All Weather 6.5 Creedmoor (120 AMax's). My Tikka SL 308 shot 117 grain Hornady Whitetail ammo very good also.

I've owned 2,a 270 and a 30-06.Both very accurate.

Looking at my safe there are no more tikka's(nothin against them)but I may be partial to cz's.(as accurate as any btw)

Five have come through me: a .223 8 twist, a 7-08, 2 30-06, and a 300WSM. Can't say that any other brand has been nearly as easy to dial in.

Tikka has it all. It has accuracy, fit and finish and most of all, it feeds like it has eyes and extracts positively. Savage has accuracy but their feeding and extraction sucks. Remington is hit and miss. All of this coming from a Remington fan.

Ive got a Sako A7 in .243 shoots everything I fed it an inch or less .Sorry im not a gun writer.

22/250,25/06,30/06,300 WSM,338 Win Mag and 7 Rem Mag here. All have been superbly accurate out of the box. All but the 338 have been closer to 1/2 MOA. Could be I just didn't shoot it as well. Kicked like 2 sons-a-bitches. I haven't ever found that many different calibers of any other manufacturer that have done as well. In a specific model like the T3. Savage came close.

NO! Really ?

Couldn't imagine why!

(all friendly sarcasm)

Has anyone used a .260 on game in the Tikka?

It was pretty funny actually. I got the 338 and headed over to a place I owned in the sticks to let her rip a time or two. There was an old fella lived just up the road a little piece. He was sitting on his porch when I went past. A wave and a nod there as I pulled into the property. I toss a couple sandbags on the hood of the pick-up and stick up a target. So there I am peering through the scope of the T3,thinking more about the trigger than anything else. I light up one of the 225gr Hornady hand loads. Now this isn't the first 338 Winny I ever owned,but what a hoot! After a nice fireball,a tap on the forehead (no cut,just a reminder),and a well deserved expletive. I hear the old fella up the road laughing on the porch. He apparently thought my reference to the all mighty,sex,and a Missouri mule was pretty funny. The next couple shots got the respect they deserved. And a little better grip on the rig.

The Dewey Rifle..Turd polishers dun moved on from Savage.pretty funny

Otter -

I am smiling/laughing as and after reading UR account.
I can see it, oh so perfectly well.

I was actually surprised how tame my t3 338 win mag is given the weight.

I've had 11 t3's and picked up my 12th this weekend (223 8 twist). I expect it to shoot just like all my others, which is excellent.

I haven't used the .260, but I have used the Tikka T3 6.5x55, which is its ballistic twin and is an absolute sweetheart of a rifle.

140 Nosler Partitions are deadly on deer and I would not hesitate to use it on any North American big game, short of the big bears.

Model 70s of course:

Browning