I’ll be damned, never thought the wkr community would see the day you posted in this thread with your very own tikka 223… There’s hope for 2023 after all!
Don't kid yourself. I'm still not 100% sure the 145 pages of well documented kills with autopsies has got me ready to ditch my 6-8 MPH 6.5/7mm's for a 3 MPH .22. I'll start slow, gradually working my way up from paper, to steel, to squirrels, then maybe to rock chucks (assuming wound channels are adequate on the squirrel first), then maybe, just maybe, let my wife test it out on a small body doe mule deer. All of this will be done with my 7 SAUM (rem 700 trigger, hope it goes bang) on hand as a back up, in case the .223 bullets fail to dispatch the hardy beasts in a timely manner.
3mph? Come on don't sell it short, its almost 4mph!
You'll be crunching hard with Varget and the 75s, especially at standard tikka mag length. Even in the CTR at 2.424 I couldn't stuff enough into the case to find pressure. Still made decent speed and was accurate, but XBR is king.
Forgive his trespasses, he’s new to this world…
Whoa whoa whoa, not to say it’s mine but I was the first with the ID handle amongst the wkr’s I’m pretty sure…
So you are number Juan?
Precisely…
I will have MDT mags that can load to 2.55 COAL, so the mags won't limit me but am afraid the short throat might
At todays prices, are you kidding?
Joe did that!
If you're wanting light, why go for the X-Ray?
Don't necessarily want/need it to be super light. Most of my guns are chassis, so i wanted to stay with that trend and give the x-ray a try. As for the arken, I have heard good things and wanted to test one myself. This gun is likely going to spend more time shooting steel or varmints than it will hiking up a mountain.
Short throat will limit you with Varget and 75eld. H4895 is 130fps faster with zero pressure signs.
