The rest of the story.

These are the two three shot groups mentioned previously, fired from a LH Tikka T3 Lite with a Leupold VX-II 3-9 scope on 9 power. I was just messing around here, wasn't trying to hold my tongue in the proper position or pay attention to the phase of the moon or anything, and this is the result.

These were fired about 15 minutes apart, in between which the rifle was removed from the bags and the front rest shifted around for other rifles. Group at 4 o'clock is .208", group at 10 o'clock is .231, total of six shots is .611". Btw, the lower one had the extreme spread of 3 fps, the upper one had the 6 fps spread - that wider velocity spread must be the reason for the grouping going all to hell like that. wink

Whether this is a testimonial to Tikka rifles, Sierra bullets or 26.0 grains of TAC I couldn't distinguish, but taken all together they make a pretty good team.


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