Tikka T3 misfire... HELP! - 10/04/11
Leaving for antelope hunt in 4 days and having problems with my Tikka T3 300 WSM. It has a custom lija heavy bbl, so not factory chamber. I only fired it enough when I got it to know that it was going to shoot very good, so I sent it off to be fluted and then had barrel cryogenic treated. Gun shot great when I got it back together with maybe two misfires out of 20 reloads. Then tonight I wanted to chech my zero and had about 60% misfires. Tried some Winchester factory rounds and they were even worse, leaving a slight mark on the primer. Could the cryogenic treatment have weakened my firing pin spring? I have taking bolt apart and cleaned firing pin/spring , but still doing the same thing. Anyone have any ideas? I have other guns for the hunt, but this gun was shooting in the .3's and is really sweet.