sndmn11
"DADDY"
If it is pillar bedded torque that guy to 65inlbs
Probably notThat's tight. Is there a danger of breaking the factory plastic bottom metal? I know there is a metal insert aorund the screws but I dont recall if its full thickness?
I would incrementally increase the torque from your current 35 in-lbs to 65 in-lbs max...see what shoots the best (after you clean your barrel).If it is pillar bedded torque that guy to 65inlbs
It's gilding material, not gliding material in typical bullets.I just saw this. I'm not sure if you solved your problem already. I have a Tikka T3X 7mm-08 and it shoots about 1 moa at 100yds it seems to like the Fiocchi 139 grain sp. Oddly better than the Hornady Whitetail, which is the same bullet cased by someone else. I haven't tried the Barnes yet. The gun was half MOA in the first ten shots with crappy CoreLocts. They can be fussy.
Now my wife has a Tikka T3X compact 243 that shot sub MOA with $16 (at the time) federal crap 80 grain and most anything else. I bought a box of Barnes 80gr TTSX for it for deer hunting. The gun was terrible with them. It took a box and half of nothing but the Barnes through it to properly season/foul the barrel before it shot them sub MOA like most everything else. That's when the Barnes were 35 bucks a box now they're 45 bucks a box. I haven't and won't clean that gun again now that it's properly fouled and shooting well. Needless to say we won't shoot anything else but Barnes through it now that it's finally shooting good.
Regular copper jackets are "gliding metal" and are made with various copper alloys. Barnes are pure copper and only "glide" well on pure copper. Stick only with the Barnes, stop cleaning your barrel and you'll be ok.
Also my 7mm-08 Tikka T3X shoots for crap on a bipod. It's too light and likes to jump around took much. I do better shooting off my benched elbows with my forearm steadied on a bag. This zeros the rifle closer to how it's used afield than a bipod. Believe it or the gun's zero is very different between being held and the bipod. And that's at a hundred yards.
I'm a big Tikka and Barnes fan so I HTH
Best of luck to you
Ron
Thank you for the gilding metal clarification. Not sure if I initially read it wrong (I'm dyslexic) or It's my memory. It's been a while since I dealt with this as you can tell by the price references. I'm certainly not an expert and may sound like an idiot but the experience and fix was legit.It's gilding material, not gliding material in typical bullets.
Try removing the barrel bumps and free floating the barrel to achieve consistent poi from various positions/support.
I’ve tried several tikka t3 & t3x.Thanks guys. At this point it’s future help for someone else, I eventually tried everything suggested and never could get it to shoot. I traded it in for a new t3x lite that easily held groups half the size or less I had been getting, even off a bipod. It seems every once in a while it IS the gun that either just doesnt shoot, or is so finicky with ammo or bore condition or whatever that its not worth chasing.