I’ve tried several tikka t3 & t3x.
Typically they are really good shooters.
I love the Hunter models - but- I’ve found that pulling the wood stock and buying a cheap synthetic from eBay makes the Tikka rifles shoot better.
The Hunter stocks seem to have more recoil for caliber than the synthetic...
Not inferior on accuracy; just inferior on taking Elk or other game as the match bullet is not designed for penetration or expansion.
I tried a match bullet on a deer when I was young and didn’t know better. It hit the shoulder and exploded with no penetration.
Bergara switched quickly to the fluted bolt wilderness ridge in 2021.
Many people who had purchased just prior to the change wanted the fluted bolt.
No one was warned that it was coming.
My bergara wilderness ridge was not so heavy. The bergara HMR is 9.25 lbs - plus add scope and ammo.
Lots of people complaining about accuracy in the bergara wilderness ridge in .308
The 6.5 cm was very accurate.
It definitely preferred 125-129 grain bullets over the 143 gr eld-x
My first Tikka was a Hunter .270 win.
Far More recoil than any .270 I ever shot.
It would shake the weaver mounts loose before I could get it aligned.
Every time I thought I would have it, the screws that hold the rings to the base would be loose.
I’m glad I didn’t give up on tikka right there...
I’d take the 1/2” load and run with it.
When hunting the first shot is the Prime shot.
You need two more shots you know your rifle and ammo , you will have the confidence to run em.
I’ve had some pencil barrel’s that would be changing poi by the 3rd shot.
A Ruger Hawkeye ultra lightweight, in 7mm-08, especially warm weather shooting 1-2-3 normal speed. By the 3rd round it was changing.
A savage axis 25/06, would put the first two in the same hole.
The 3rd would be off.. I...
I’ve had reasonable success with Eld-x , 143 gr. 6.5cm
But the rifle shoots 129, &125 grain Winchester better.
I do want to try 145 eldx in .270 win.
154 eldx in 7mm-08
The funny thing is I’ve seen people shoot like this.
In honesty though, I never liked ‘lite’ rifles when I was young. I typically carried a Wood stock , 26” barrel, Remington.
Switching to ‘lite’ rifles after spinal surgeries and Degenerative disc disease, had its learning curve.
I was not too...
Out of 6 calibers of tikka rifles I’ve owned, 1 had enormous recoil for a .270 win.. did not shoot horribly.
Not great.
The .243 with 75 gr Vmax was incredibley accurate. One ragged hole. With 100 grain it opened up a little. - still well under an inch.
The 25/06 Tikka Forest. Ok. Less than...
Not the first 7mm rem mag that made groups like that.
I’ watched a career reloader try to develop a load for a Ruger m77 tang safety rifle- it shot about like yours.
very good points. My Tikka rifles are very accurate.
If my tikka was shooting 1” I would not accept that .
Temperature plays a...