Yeah, ive read about the lug dents on heavies and its a 5 minute swap out. Four of those minutes being walking to the fridge for a beer.
16B,
I owned three T3 Tikklers in magnum chamberings. One was a stainless Lite in 300 WSM that had hundreds of rounds of factory 180gr ammo through it by me. Sold it to a guy who shot several boxes through it and sold it back to me due to his dislike of recoil. No problem with bent luggette.
Next was a blued T3 Lite in 300 Win Mag. Handloaded 200gr NAB. Sold it as I wanted stainless so I bought a T3 Supertikkler from Cabelas with the uber-cool fluted barrel. Hundreds of 200gr NAB at 2900 fps. No problem with luggette except slight impression, not bent or mangled. I think it takes a couple rounds to get the indent, but from there it doesn't get any worse.
It doesn't take a magnum either. I had another T3 Lite in 270 Win. It had the minor impression shooting 140gr NAB at 2900fps.
