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Dave

He sure is. He's got me bullied into thinking about maybe buying one of those.

here's what it looks like with my SS 3X15 mounted up

N

Looks just like mine w/the 3-15 SS!

so this is the initial load work up
Winchester twice fired brass, 178gr AMAX 43.1-44.3 of varget in .3 gr increments.
COAL 2.800 43.1 is the center bull and then it goes around from top left clockwise around for the rest of the groups. 43.7 looks promising. (Top right diamond)
Think I will try 43.7, 43.8, 43.9 and 44.00 then play with seating, sort of bummed that I am limited to the mag length, but I don't think it will be a big deal.

Load work done
178gr Amax, 43.8grs of Varget, COAL=2.800 and Win brass

So.....I bought another Tikka.

This time I picked up a T3 Forest in 260. Brought it home today, mounted a scope, got it on paper at 25 (one shot) and these were the next three at 100.



This was just a random load with 38.5grs or RL15 and the 129 Hornady. COAL was 2.79" in Lapua brass. I didn't get to shoot any more, as I had to start toting kids to ball games. I expect it to continue doing nice things once I get some time behind the trigger -- speaking of which -- this Tikka has a better trigger than any of my previous T3's.

Uber'er.....

Good luck with your Tikka. I have three, and they all shoot great. My 243 is a Model 558 Whitetail Hunter, my T-3 Lite is (was,I sold it) a 7mm-08, and my 30-06 is a Model 695. I have never seen such accuracy with any other brand out of the box. A plus is the slick bolt action. A local shop has a T-3 in 6.5 Swede which I may have to own.....

I shot mine again yesterday with the same RL15 load. I really think this rifle will sizzle with load development. It's gonna be fun. I still have less than 10 shots down the barrel and it's not even been cleaned. It will get a good workout over the long weekend....

Shortactionsmoker,

Where did you get them there fancy targets at? ;-)

+1.

Honestly, I've no idea! Dad (lastround on here) ordered them a while back. Shoot him a PM, he'll be glad to help..

I have not cleaned mine either, except for when I brought it home, stripped it down and put it all back together. going to test 10rds of 43.8 to see if it will hold all 10 moa or better.

So this is a 10 shot group. I am thinking the 4 on the right are trigger control. The flyer bottom left ???
shot 1 was to the left,
shot 2 was dead center bull,
shot 3-6 were to the left,
shot 7 was the flyer,
shot 8-10 were on right, finishing out the horizontal string.
Will have to repeat the test with fired formed brass.

Tikka T3 Super Lite in .308, SS 3x15 scope
Win brass 3rd firing, fired from a different rifle, I resized the brass using the dies I set up for this rifle.
43.8 grs of Varget, CCI LR primers.

Just need to adjust my scope .4mils to the right and I will be GTG. & run the through the crony

Nice and horizontal, that's for sure! Some seating depth adjustment may be fruitful.

will try fired formed brass first, then mess with seating depth, if I still get the same results.

Well I guess, I will start seating the bullet deeper, COAL is 2.800, so guess I will start in .005 increments. These are the last two 10 shot groups I shot. Load is 178gr AMAX 43.8grs of Varget. While I am at it, I will also try a Hornady 165gr SPIL or BTSPIL.

Did you bed it?




Travis

No, only lightened up the trigger, actually it is a little too light. I did torque it down to 34 in/lbs.