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i can't see how something would wear if the fit was tight. There would have to be play to begin with. My gun has seen hundreds of rounds and nothing is wearing.

Seems the luggette problem is rather common. There is a thread about it on the Hide.
The design is crappy in the extreme with the least recoil lug surface area of any HP rifle I'm aware of.
How much more expensive would a Rem style recoil lug have been?

Funny you have such a problem with the lug. Sako even uses it in the TRG42, and they are 300Wins, and 338 Lapuas. Guess their engineers need to spend more time reading the 'campfire.

http://www.sako.fi/sakotrgmodels.php?trg42

here is how the 30-06 you sold me shoots



3 different bullets with 4 different powders BTW, agg of all groups still in the .5's I have owned 2 other tikkas and the other 2 have shot the first factory loads I have tried in them around .5 inch. never felt the need to try other stuff. its way better than remington 700's I have played with in fact is better than 700's with krieger barrels and glass
bedded professionally. some of the smallest groups I have shot with ANY rifle have been with tikkas, the 30-06 above has shot 1/4" ragged holes so has the 243 I later ended up selling

Yep, with probably 5 or 6 times more surface area.

Accuracy is far from the only thing in a custom rifle. Without accuracy it doesn't much matter but looks also count for something, and sorry but Tikka doesn't have much in the way of looks. Life's to short to shoot an ugly rifle!

Hell, I can't shoot in the .2's no matter the rifle I'm using.

In field positions forget about it.

I'm continually impressed with the quality of the SHOOTERS here!

Envious as well you bastiges!

Tikkas Sakos rock!

Seems to me it'd be pretty unlikely for an aluminum lugette to batter a steel receiver. I don't own a T-3 but my old 595 and 695 Tikka's are the smoothest working, most accurate factory rifles I've ever owned and would be the last I'd ever part with.

The luggettes are steel and there was a thread here some time back which showed both the luggette and the receiver slot battered.

My sentiment exactly. Hell, I had a TC Encore barrel in 7mm-08 that shot better than I could ask of any rifle, no matter who made it or the cost. But, the rifle was clunky, and could not get my blood going no matter how functional it was. My Kimbers, I have two, each proved to be difficult, but when you find their sweet spot, it don't get much sweeter. I love shooting and carrying them.

I thought I remembered someone on here saying the lugette was aluminum.

Mine at least was steel.

Pretty sure mine was aluminum.

Perhaps you should try even a standard barrel weight Tikka...

I don't get any rifle to sit in the corner and look at, and marvel how good it looks, including a .5MOA tikka 695 7mag I've had for 13 years now. It's got plastic, and it's extremely tough, and exceedingly, boringly accurate as anything I've ever shot.


I trusted it enough to take it deep into Sonora for this once in a lifetime, 213" gross typical muley buck

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Congrats on that muley.I would still be smiling.

Raider, I have dreams about mulies like that!