Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles FINALLY....a Tikka 6mm Creedmoor

Well sorta....

Screwed a pre-fit McGowen 6mm Creedmoor Tikka lite contour 22.5” barrel on a stainless T3 action.

Shots 2-4 on the new barrel
100 yards
Hornady black 105 bthp

Tossed a 3-15x42 LHT on in a hurry and shot 20 min after sunset from the back deck. Fired 3 shots in fast succession using only a barricade bag as a front rest, immediately after walking 100 yards to and from target to find my first shot cause it missed the paper.

My goal was to just get the scope mounted and on paper for some real testing a later date. Since I already had a target set at 100 yards, I just started there and didn’t take time to boresight or set a target closer.

Think it has potential-

Bad ass! I have two customs built on Tikka actions. Big fan...

Ps. I have not had great results with that bullet, so your gun shows potential.

I think you have a winner there.

I’ll take it. Pm coming.


Oh, sorry. Wrong forum.

My Howa likes that ammo too. Just not quite that well....grin

Nice. Does McGowan do shouldered or barrel nut prefits?

Nice! Thinking about a similar project.

Mine is shouldered. Not sure if they even often a barrel nut version or not.

Have you had anything that you was pleased with or had good results with? I’ve never been around a 6mm that wouldn’t shoot that bullet.

Great shooting to the OP

I'd like to see more manufacturers building hunting rifles in 6 Creed. My Nosler is incredibly accurate, but I won't spend that kind of money for a rifle for my grandson.

They’re here, and more on the way, I think. I scored one of the $250 Howa barreled actions and put it in a $150 Weatherby stock. Can’t do much better than that for a solid rifle. I see that chambering at all price levels now.

Same here, mine is a great rifle and paying 250 for the whole barreled action didn't hurt my feelings a bit.

The Tikka as a 6 CM would be pretty slick too, that's probably not a bad way to roll.

That's probably the worst 6mm bullet I've tried in several guns. If you actually shot you'd know what real accuracy is.

You could probably get by with that accuracy

Yeah, that gun is a shooter for sure. I ran 115 dtacs in my 6 creed. Current running them in my 6 SLR. Using 103 ELD's in my 243. The 105 Scenar is also an easy bullet to get to shoot...

I snagged a few of those $250 Howa’s also and have a heavy barreled one in a Bravo. They are all shooters also.

I wished I got a few more for Christmas gifts.

Schweet!

Great shooting Wesley2!

Those Hornady 105 hpbt's shoot great and are what I would call the "easy button" in a properly twisted rifle.

I hate that I missed out on those barreled actions.

Not a fan of Tikka’s but been dying to screw together a 6mm CM.