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I don’t consider frequent failure to feed a nitpick. I’ll readily agree I nitpick other stuff.
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My first Tikka was 1998 M595 then....7-08 SS/syn Ordered a blue/synthetic......distributor sent SS/syn Oh well Most guys were on the Rem 700's or Win 70's then One of my fav Tikka's was this Swede.....Lam/SS T3..... only had two rds left in session.......(: ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/SSf99Pb.jpg)
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Feeding poorly means when the bolt would push the cartridge out of the magazine it would bind up and often required finessing to get it to chamber.
And I think this is where my dislike for the ejection port size came from too. When it did jam it was hard to do much about it through the port. Did you try a different magazine?
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The m695 in .280 looks rough but shoots like nothing else. No worry knocking it on the rails of the stand. It's the standard for me. I wish I owned it.
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How easy would it be to covert to 284 Win? Same action length for short and long. Thinking about this...
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What is the going rate for a T3X in 6.5? I just bought one 2 hours ago on an impulse buy. Completely out of my character.
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Looks to be around $650 before tax?
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I agree with you and did just that... ![[Linked Image from imgur.com]](https://imgur.com/rGeGphN.jpg)
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The m695 in .280 looks rough but shoots like nothing else. No worry knocking it on the rails of the stand. It's the standard for me. I wish I owned it. seems the 280 was popular in the 695.......RMEF drawing prizes ?????????
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I agree with you and did just that... good job Swede in the Tikka goes together like p/butter & jelly ! 127 years years old & going strong ! Never did have a 9.3x62mm though........ Iffin I were only 30 years younger ):
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Feeding poorly means when the bolt would push the cartridge out of the magazine it would bind up and often required finessing to get it to chamber.
And I think this is where my dislike for the ejection port size came from too. When it did jam it was hard to do much about it through the port. Did you try a different magazine? 2 with the same results
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Feeding poorly means when the bolt would push the cartridge out of the magazine it would bind up and often required finessing to get it to chamber.
And I think this is where my dislike for the ejection port size came from too. When it did jam it was hard to do much about it through the port. Did you try a different magazine? 2 with the same results Hmmm....all three tikkas I have are among the best feeding rifles I have owned. In fact I find myself working on the feed of most other brands to get them to feed as smooth as a tikka. I'm wondering if perhaps you were useing 30/06 ammo in your 308??? Just trying to sort out what happened there
Good bullets properly placed always work, but not everyone knows what good bullets are, or can reliably place them in the field
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Make enough of anything and you’re gonna have a problem eventually.
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I was just given a Tikka 659 Blued/ wood stocked in 7mm mag, The gun is brand new never fired. With 4 boxes of 7 rem. mag. Remington Ammo, 150 gr ammo with the K mart price Tag of $14.00 per box. I am not sure that I want to keep it but it is a cool gun.
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I’d keep it, you cannot have too many 7 mags, got 4 or 5. Not sure.
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The only time I have had feeding issues with a Tikka was when I was trying to seat a bullet to touch the lands. The OAL was such that the tip of the bullet was touching the magazine and as more bullets were loaded it would force the follower into a tipped position, then as the cartridges would feed up they would hang up on the front of the magazine. I seated them a few thousandths deeper and the problem was solved and the groups didn't noticably enlarge.
Having had that experience I wonder if the feeding problem wasn't a similar situation, it would be nice to know if they were factory cartridges or handloads.
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drover,
That's a definite possibility.
Have a Tikka T3 in .260 Remington, and occasionally ran into the same problem. It tried a long-cartridge magazine, but the rounds wouldn't feed.
Luckily, T3 magazines for both long and short cartridges are the same overall length. Eventually I took a "short" magazine apart and epoxied it back together with a shorter spacer, allowing bullets to be seated to 2.94"--.1" longer than it allowed originally. It fed perfectly--and accuracy improved (at least with some bullets) because I could seat them close to the lands.
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Factory ammo. 150 grainers.
Ummm no I wasn’t using 30/06 rounds. 🙄
I’m glad everyone else has had such great luck with theirs. This one wasn’t the greatest. We hunted it and my kids killed stuff with it. Mostly we used it because it fit them.
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The first time I had my Tikka on the bench, I kept checking to see if it had picked up a round and chambered it. That is how smooth it ran.
Bore size is no substitute for shot placement and
Power is no substitute for bullet performance. 458WIN
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Own 3 myself... SS in 223 and 308 and a Blued 9,3x62 Forest..
Also consider that Tikka's are sold at 1/2 the price in the US, compared to Finland. Or any other country...
So, its quite the bargain..
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