Tikka T1x ejection. - 06/20/21
After the Christensen Ranger 22 I bought a few months ago turned out to be a lemon the dealer traded me into a tikka T1x and a 30 moa rail instead. I wish they would have had a 16" but 20" is all they had.
I took the tikka to the range last night to sight it in. I got there a little late in the evening and light was fading so I set up on a bench on a 50 yard lane and took a couple of rounds to zero it.
I then started with some cci standard velocity stuff that usually shoots well for cheap stuff. The first 5 shot group at 50 yards was under 1/2" one nice well rounded hole. The next group was 10 shots at about 1/2". I tried some Aguila Super Extra 40g lead that shot great too. I then tried my old stand by cheap load American Eagle 38g hp and it shot pretty well but dropped one of the 10 an inch or more out of the group. Stingers did good enough for hunting but were the worst of the bunch. Velocitors, my favorite all around load, managed under 1/2 inch as did some other loads so I was happy.
Overall I was very impressed by the Tikkas accuracy given that I was rushing through several types of ammo in fading light. The only problem I had was I had several rounds not eject well or just drop back down onto the next round and stop the bolt cycle.
I haven't looked it over yet because we left town for the day early this morning. My guess is there's just a little problem with the extractor or maybe ejector. I'm hoping to just fix it myself because the gun shoots well enough that I don't want berretta messing with it.
Have any of you had ejection problems with your T1x? If so what was the issue and how did you fix it? I'll probably start with the extractor and make sure it doesn't have a burr or something.
Bb
I took the tikka to the range last night to sight it in. I got there a little late in the evening and light was fading so I set up on a bench on a 50 yard lane and took a couple of rounds to zero it.
I then started with some cci standard velocity stuff that usually shoots well for cheap stuff. The first 5 shot group at 50 yards was under 1/2" one nice well rounded hole. The next group was 10 shots at about 1/2". I tried some Aguila Super Extra 40g lead that shot great too. I then tried my old stand by cheap load American Eagle 38g hp and it shot pretty well but dropped one of the 10 an inch or more out of the group. Stingers did good enough for hunting but were the worst of the bunch. Velocitors, my favorite all around load, managed under 1/2 inch as did some other loads so I was happy.
Overall I was very impressed by the Tikkas accuracy given that I was rushing through several types of ammo in fading light. The only problem I had was I had several rounds not eject well or just drop back down onto the next round and stop the bolt cycle.
I haven't looked it over yet because we left town for the day early this morning. My guess is there's just a little problem with the extractor or maybe ejector. I'm hoping to just fix it myself because the gun shoots well enough that I don't want berretta messing with it.
Have any of you had ejection problems with your T1x? If so what was the issue and how did you fix it? I'll probably start with the extractor and make sure it doesn't have a burr or something.
Bb