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I love a boring rifle.

Save the drama for the hunt.

What powder with the 87s? I have a similar Sako A7 that's not grouping nearly as well as your Tikka.

Actually the tikka t3 has the shortest bolt throw of any long action made because the trigger group is located tight against the magazine. For instance.......a Remington 700 short action is relatively close to the same bolt throw as a long action T3 because the trigger group is a mile from the magazine.


Just saying






Shod

IMR 4831: 44gr
Fed 210
Winchester Brass
COAL 2.710

I'm not sure that 44gr of 4831 is the ideal powder and charge. The results at 100 yards were good enough to know it would shoot, but wouldn't win any 100 yard group contests.

I quickly took it out to 600 without messing any more at 100. Too many times I've been caught up with the paper at 100 yards. From now on - with all my hunting rifles - if its dancing around the same one inch square, I'm taking it long. If the holes touch, even better, but I'm not going to obsess over it with a hunting rifle shot from field positions.

I have a feeling it might even be a a little better with a grain less. I'll try next time, or even see what 4350 will do. I'll post back here with any changes.

I shot 4350 (IMR and H) behind a lot of the 87/90s in my Tikka .243.... but it ran best with 87s and IMR 4064.... I believe that's the load I'm shooting in the video where the wind is ripping....

Yeah Tikkas take the fun out of tinkering. A couple weeks ago I bought a SS T3 in 30-06 that was too much gun for the original owner, he only shot 14 rds through it since new. I loaded up some 155 gr Scenars with H4350. Had 5 each of 59,59.5, and 60 gr loads and went to the range this morning. First 5 shots below.....load development complete! If I hadn't shanked that one shot , it would be the sickest group I have ever shot! I've got a Mule Deer tag for southern Utah this year, hopefully the Scenars work!....grin

Great shooting.

I'm seeing in my latest Cabela's flyer that its $40 off the T3 Lite coming up. Go get em...

Bolt throw? Good one........

with the 87gr, re15 or IMR 4064 are tough to beat, dime sized groups in my tikka. Only thing I did was lighten the trigger.

A check list of one tweak, is hardly a list......

I have to confess that I too tweaked mine.....I'm guilty of two full turns of the trigger weight adjustment screw with an Allen wrench!

I'm guilty of the same trigger adjustment. Maybe we should start a club.

Tikka Shooters Anonymous

Damn Tikka trigger tweakers.....

my p.o.s. [bleep] t3 .243 wont shoot 1 hole w/factory generic 80 grainers; only slight less then .5" ; splurged and tried the 95 grain fusions for a couple of bucks more..same results, with a random .3" ; guess i will have to live with it or start reloading ,

Yep, time to start reloading. Can't live with half moa shooters out of a light hunting rifle

Apparently I got a lemon.Dagnammit
My 270 Winchester Superlight will only do
.80 with Hornady Whitetail 130 grain factory ammo
and .75 with Federal Fusion 130 grain Factory ammo
For 3 shots at a hundred yards using Leupold VX1 3-9x40.

I am guilty of guilty of tweaking my trigger by filing the head of the adjustment screw so it would back out farther and get a one and a half pound trigger pull.

Overachiever....

The Fed Fusions are good stuff. Very accurate for a box of cheaper stuff.

With all these poor results I don't know if I can recommend these guns any more.