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All this convinced me to buy a Tikka and the accuracy has been, well, ho-hum. Not sure why but it isn't the magic gun it is hyped up to be.

I was one of "those guys" too but the LH T 3 6.5x55 I got my wife has been the most accurate gun we have in the house, has the best trigger and has a slick action. It costs a lot less than a couple of my custom guns too while out shooting them. I am about 99% sure a LH T 3x in 300 WSM is in my future sometime this year...............

Would love to get a LH CTR 260 too but we will see,my Savage 260 shoots pretty good too.

Sounds like your experience is 'about the norm', Gerry. If I could get a Tikka in 6.5 Swede that would be even better. I really like that caliber.

I really like mine. Dropped it in a XLR chassis and have taken it to 1400+....2nd round hit at that distance....my wind call was a 1/2 MOA off or so on the 16" gong.

Its killed a pile of critters in my first year of owning it, from myself taking 3 deer and caribou (120 to 495 yards), to a grizzly bear my buddy shot much further any of my kills with it, to my buddy's 8 year old bagging his first big game animal with one perfectly placed shot at 330 yards:



Seems to shoot both handload and factory load 143 ELDX 5 shots into 1/2 MOA at 100 yards everytime. Overall very happy with the rifle.....and now I am using the factory CTR stock and bottom metal for my dad's 308 so I can have a 10 round mag that allows me to load with plenty of mag space.

Hey A.L., that CTR stock is gettin around! Thinkin I will take 8-twist Tikka /250 for bob & thread this weekend, then put in my CTR .260 furniture.

Hit the nail on the head Gerry35. I wish they made a 7x57 as well. That would be another perfect match for the action.

Those long vlds sit above the neck shoulder junction in my 6.5x55. Not sure if it’s related but the 2 most accurate factory rifles I’ve owned were both chambered in the 6.5x55.The current one being a Tikka t3 with a simple blued barrel and wood stock. It’s very threatening to coyotes at ridiculous ranges.

Nice work the with the CTR! Still using the CTR bottom metal and mags? Looks like a lot of guys convert to CTI or use the new Tikka Performance BM that allows use of AICS without altering the OEM footprint.

I was going to do that...but now that you can get the Tikka CTR mags for the same price as the AICS mags and the Tikka CTR mags actually feed a bit smoother and have slightly more COAL leeway then its kinda a no brainer to just take that $200 for new bottom metal and get 3 more mags.