Help me put together my rifle.

[stan5677]

Ok roksliders New Year new blessings. Now is the time to put together my rifle as an unexpected blessing came in and needed some advice on parts and whether to play the waiting game on parts or get into something immediately.

Waiting game purchase :
Tikka Roughtech Stock - Wait on stock
PBB Tikka Prefit Hybrid Lite - 25 Creedmoor 24'' barrel wait on barrel
Tikka Action donor

Immediate purchase:
Pure Precision or Stockys Stock - Can purchase immediately
Proof Tikka Prefit 25 Creedmoor 25'' barrel - Can purchase immediately

 

[MeatMissile]

What is your desired bottom metal/magazine situation? OEM M+, OEM LA, CTR, AICS?

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Ok roksliders New Year new blessings. Now is the time to put together my rifle as an unexpected blessing came in and needed some advice on parts and whether to play the waiting game on parts or get into something immediately.

Waiting game purchase :
Tikka Roughtech Stock - Wait on stock
PBB Tikka Prefit Hybrid Lite - 25 Creedmoor 24'' barrel wait on barrel
Tikka Action donor

Immediate purchase:
Pure Precision or Stockys Stock - Can purchase immediately
Proof Tikka Prefit 25 Creedmoor 25'' barrel - Can purchase immediately

How are you going to use this rifle? Is this for shooting antelope across the hood of a pickup truck? Or hiking into the backcountry? Etc?

It would appear you have no plans to suppress this rifle?

Do you have any idea of a final overall weight?

Without knowing your intended role, it’s hard for me to give any advice.

 

[sndmn11]

Immediate purchase:
Pure Precision or Stockys Stock - Can purchase immediately

Waiting game purchase :

PBB Tikka Prefit Hybrid Lite - 25 Creedmoor 24'' barrel wait on barrel

The latter should only be a few weeks, right?

 

[stan5677]

How are you going to use this rifle? Is this for shooting antelope across the hood of a pickup truck? Or hiking into the backcountry? Etc?

It would appear you have no plans to suppress this rifle?

Do you have any idea of a final overall weight?

Without knowing your intended role, it’s hard for me to give any advice.

Don't really care about the weight strictly a whitetail rifle out here in NC. Might do a western mule deer hunt some day but no plans in the future.

 

[stan5677]

The latter should only be a few weeks, right?

Yes, only a few that just the impatient side of me I don't mind waiting if a carbon barrel isn't the way to go plus it saves several hundred dollars

 

[Finaddictions]

Always kinda laugh to myself at the carbon hate here. I own a bunch of them and most of the stuff I hear spouted is untrue.

With that said I have a Proof 25 Creed prefit I just screwed onto an Origin a week ago. It’s been crazy accurate right from the start and I was stacking 10 rounds in a bit over a 1/2”. Shoots great. I’d rather shoot now than wait, but that’s just me.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Don't really care about the weight strictly a whitetail rifle out here in NC. Might do a western mule deer hunt some day but no plans in the future.

If you insist on building a rifle piece-by-piece for that, go for it, but I would just get a Tikka T3X lite in .243 with 1:8” twist or 6.5 CM or .270 as your base rifle. EuroOptic should still have some decent deals, especially if you don’t want it threaded. If you are hunting from a blind or stand, I’d get an SWFA 10x scope for it. That is a reliable budget option. I used one for still hunting this past season without any issues. Served me very well in the mature hardwoods where I still hunt.

Then I would hunt and shoot with that while watching the classifieds and sales to get the upgrades you want - starting with the stock. You might find that once you have the stock you want, that you don’t have any reason to change the barrel out. If you do get a new barrel however, I would look really hard at a 1:7.5” twist for the 25 CM.

 

[Matt5266]

I agree with the above. For your purpose a 25 creed is not needed, but to each their own. Buy a factory Tikka and upgrade as you can afford. I personally would just buy the 1:8 243 and call it a day. Aftermarket stockys VG or Rokstock and a SWFA 3-9 and I promise you it will kill anything out west past what you should be shooting.( no insult Inteded)

 

[sndmn11]

Yes, only a few... it saves several hundred dollars

 

[Speaks]

I would get the barrel from lswild. 25 creedmoor is a sweet cartridge.

 

[MeatMissile]

If I were unexpectedly “blessed” and had rifles I could use, I’d wait for parts and build something you really want.

I have the aforementioned 8” twist T3x in 243 and 6.5 CM. They are great hunting rifles.

BUT, my favorite is my 257 Roberts.