I met a rep for tikka a year or so ago and told him they need to import a few more T3 sporters in 260. He said he'd see what he could do. He called me a while back and said 8 were being imported and he was having one sent to the local shop I met him at. They called me the other day and told me to come see what they have. It was a stainless sporter but with the laminate wood stock. I'd actually prefer the plastic. It was pretty pricey with the laminate at about $840. I didn't pick it up because I got in on the campfire group buy MRC 260. I'm still a bit tempted but they also had a stainless ctr for only $160 more.

Bb

Bb..

There are stainless T3 Hunters coming this fall in the Sako Select program.....and they have a fluted barrel. I have around 50 in 260 ordered.

That's a high price for the T3 laminate stainless.....

The SS CTR 260 is tempting...........

Did you order any fast-twist 243s? like a 1 in 8 for the 105 AMAX or Berger?

Stainless, fluted? I could see me taking one of those off of your hands....

No fast twist 243's on the way. It would be nice if they'd make it though.

I know, right?

I thought it was priced a bit high. That's why it's not in my safe. I think I'll wait and see how the MRC 260 shoots before I buy anymore 260's.

Bb

The T3 laminate I owned in 270 was a so and so shooter . There was entirely too much slop in the foreend around the lug even compared to the synthetic stock model.

Once the laminate or wood stocks are bedded, good things happen.

How do you bed a Tikka? I asked a while back and was told it was not advisable since the way they are designed?

Dogshooter posted some pics of a bedded laminate stock on another thread. The rifle above was the B&C stock..

...and I didn't do it! Eddie Fosnaugh did it for me.

Thanks.

When I bedded my B&C, I did not put epoxy immediately near the lug. You want the lug recess to contact the metal lug, not the epoxy since the epoxy is not as hard. The lug on the B&C stock is short. Adding epoxy on top of it can essentially lift the action up off the lug and it is now riding on epoxy instead of metal. Just my opinion.

That certainly is a clean bedding job, and maybe the epoxy on the lug in the photo is finite.