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    Optimal path for boomer tikka

    BTW I want to express sincere gratitude to everyone for the responses. It had been demoralizing to put in this much time and components attempting to “train” every week and with no clear results. I’m feeling strongly inclined to cut losses and get something small off the shelf that will...
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    Optimal path for boomer tikka

    Thanks, I would consider keeping it if I only had a discomfort problem. If I could find an SWFA 3-9 or 6x I’d buy it immediately to see if any of the weirdness went away. It’s very strange to see three rounds stack up touching or nearly so, and then the next is three inches away. I don’t have...
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    Optimal path for boomer tikka

    No, but I might as well be shooting it left handed.
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    Optimal path for boomer tikka

    I believe .22 centerfire cartridges are ok here, but a recent bill to lift the ban on semiauto hunting guns was vetoed by our governor, no dice on the AR unless I want to permanently alter the gas system or similar. I ran into a faster twist 22-250 but hesitated to grab it, not knowing how it...
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    Optimal path for boomer tikka

    Think the long throat and jump might be hurting accuracy, I had the action notched to feed ~3.5” COAL rounds from an AICS mag and new bottom metal, presumably nuking any resale value. Did I mention I was stubborn and maybe a fool? I hope others can learn from my bad example.
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    Optimal path for boomer tikka

    Thanks. It was the .223 thread and Shoot2hunt podcasts that very quickly made me realize how dumb I’d been. I have a 6.5 Ruger American that I have no doubt would kill anything I could hit, and an AR for which I’d say the same, but with which I am not permitted to hunt here. Unfortunately I...
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    Optimal path for boomer tikka

    In the thick cover we have here you don’t have time to place your shots. Magnum muzzle blast at 10 yards will disorient them long enough to get a good follow up, if it doesn’t concuss them to death outright.
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    Optimal path for boomer tikka

    Did you find that POI and dispersion were similar when shooting unbraked after training with a brake? Most warn about being able to “tolerate” excessive recoil, i.e. you’re gonna flinch, but others point to the movement of a greater recoiling gun during the bullet’s dwell time in the barrel. I...
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    Optimal path for boomer tikka

    I had that feeling about the recoil vs trajectory question but didn’t know how it would shake out with differences in hit probability. 6.5 PRC is just the smallest thing I could think of that wouldn’t require a bolt swap or be excessively weird.
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    Optimal path for boomer tikka

    I recently moved back to PA from OR and was astonished to find that 300WM is probably the definitive whitetail cartridge here.
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    Optimal path for boomer tikka

    Apologies if I failed with the search function. Is there a generally recommended path for dumb idiots like myself who bought a tikka in 300WM and then found out that dinky bullets work fine? After ~500 rounds, I have nothing to show for it but a perpetually black and blue shoulder and 10+...
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