Continuing onward with my resume of skills; I'm also well versed in bourbon and cigars. I could simply be the bourbon and cigar boy. Off the top of my head; I'm thinking Nubs accompanied with some Basil Hayden would be wondrous for this adventure. Just saying.....
Tight chains.
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Aviator, I picked up a like new .284 Win in of all things a Model 100 Win Carbine 15-20 years ago in a pawn shop. I try to keep an eye out for that caliber. Don't know why it never really became popular. If I am not mistaken, it was the first cartridge with a rebated rim like the WSM rounds of today. I have seen a few custom bolt guns in .284 Win. Any of you guys know why the round never really caught on. Was it the 7mm Rem Mag that pushed the .284 Win aside?
People break the shroud while removing it. If you twist the wrong way it'll break.
That also falls under the "operator error" category. Check my sig line.
Jerry
horseman is right Factory T3 shrouds are chit....spend an extra $49 at Glades armory for an aluminium shroud and forget about it......another nice touch i also do is replace the action screws with stainless from Tikka Precision for $20........Good hunting......Hb
The best aftermarket shrouds will be available in 2 weeks from Mountain Tactical. They actually tighten up the action to improve accuracy and remove the bolt wiggle.
Will be hunting moose and whitetails, but no capers. Finland has a good population of whitetails, due to a transplant that took place decades ago, and they should be rutting hard!
Dunno much else except will be shooting either Sako or Tikka rifles, and doing factory visits as well. This one of those gun-writer surprise! trips. Didn't even know I was going until a week ago, which happens sometimes. Don't even know which rifles I'll be hunting with yet, much less whether I'll be sworn to secrecy....
Hey John, saw you at BZN Monday afternoon the 16th of November... you looked beat and I was in a hurry coming back from Mississippi, so didn't bug you. Coming in from Finland perhaps?
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The best aftermarket shrouds will be available in 2 weeks from Mountain Tactical. They actually tighten up the action to improve accuracy and remove the bolt wiggle.
Tell me more, I need 4.
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I have read lots of complaints on this thread about Tikka but I have owned a half dozen and everyone of them was a very accurate gun. I never had a complaint about a reasonably priced accurate rifle. I guess some people are never satisfied.
The best aftermarket shrouds will be available in 2 weeks from Mountain Tactical. They actually tighten up the action to improve accuracy and remove the bolt wiggle.
Would you mind explaining exactly how that works ?
Missed this post, as I hadn't checked this thread for a while.
Yeah, I arrived back from Finland at the Bozeman airport on November 16th, after another international flight-schedule adventure.
Was originally scheduled to fly back into Helena the evening before, but was delayed in Finland by high winds in Amsterdam, where I'd change flights to the U.S. Left Amsterdam late enough to miss my Minneapolis connection to Helena by five minutes, so ended up spending the night in a motel and getting re-routed to Bozeman the next day.
Actually, it was nice to get a night's sleep in Minnesota--and all in all the return was a lot easier than one from Namibia, which took 3-1/2 days, including renting a car in Salt Lake City and driving the 500 miles back to Helena. Both my wife and Ingwe were on that one, which included TWO unscheduled overnights, one in Johannesburg and one in Atlanta. But such is the life of a jet-setter hunting writer....
Wish I could comment on this original question of this thread, but ain't allowed to until early March, after the IWA show in Germany, the European equivalent of SHOT.
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Missed this post, as I hadn't checked this thread for a while.
Yeah, I arrived back from Finland at the Bozeman airport on November 16th, after another international flight-schedule adventure.
Was originally scheduled to fly back into Helena the evening before, but was delayed in Finland by high winds in Amsterdam, where I'd change flights to the U.S. Left Amsterdam late enough to miss my Minneapolis connection to Helena by five minutes, so ended up spending the night in a motel and getting re-routed to Bozeman the next day.
Actually, it was nice to get a night's sleep in Minnesota--and all in all the return was a lot easier than one from Namibia, which took 3-1/2 days, including renting a car in Salt Lake City and driving the 500 miles back to Helena. Both my wife and Ingwe were on that one, which included TWO unscheduled overnights, one in Johannesburg and one in Atlanta. But such is the life of a jet-setter hunting writer....
Wish I could comment on this original question of this thread, but ain't allowed to until early March, after the IWA show in Germany, the European equivalent of SHOT.
Dope and prostitution both legal in Amsterdam.
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