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Unless I missed it, what was it then if it wasnt a T3x? If it were an older T3, so what. I have one in 308 and drives tacks with several different factory and handloads.

Love my T3X 308 SL and it shoots lights out and with a 3-9 burris ff2 and milled talleys it comes in at 6 pounds 14oz.

I have a decent amount of rifles, and a lot of them come and go, but that rifle ain’t going anywhere ever.

That is a sweet set-up Motown. Especially if it has the very useable ballistic plex reticle. For near and far, that combo is damn hard to beat..

The T3 .308 is extremely hard to beat as a do it all rifle.

You can hunt pretty much everything with it from bears, moose and elk, to varmints. With the hammer forged barrels it takes a LOT to shoot the barrel out on one with normal use. It took me almost 20 years to do it with my first T3, which was a T3 Varmint .308 which they don't offer anymore. I could easily hunt all of North America with a T3 .308 be perfectly happy.

Great guns.

My old 308 T3 shot great with a dose of Varget. Three cow elk came home as a result. The next test was a two year stint with a T3x in 6.5CM. Beat up quite a bit on an Alaskan caribou hunt. Alaska is just tough on stuff! I used a 143gr. ELD-X (I know, the dreaded bullet) at 375 yds. with one round on the morning of the tenth day! Follow up two months later on a cow elk at 135 yards. The next year was a 5pt. bull with the same bullet at 155 yards. Tikka puts out a great rifle at a Bidenomics friendly price point.

Thanks BSA! It indeed has the BP reticle and I have replaced a lot of my scopes the past few years with the Burris FF2’s. I know you’re a big fan of them and so am I, and that BP reticle might be the best basic hunting reticle ever made.