Making a Tikka Single Shot

[hunt1up]

So Illinois recently legalized straight wall rifles for deer hunting. While there's a bill pending to make the guns 3 rounds, as it stands they need to be single shot, and you can't carry a magazine that'll hold more unless you make it only hold 1 round. It would be a 350 legend.

Does anyone have experience with these products to convert to single shot?

https://www.mountaintactical.com/shop/tikka-t3t3x-single-shot-follower

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[Axlrod]

For $20 I would order one and try it. Although I have hunted quite a bit with single shot rifles and handguns, it was always by my choice.

 

[sdupontjr]

Double check your laws. That isn't allowed here in Louisiana as it can be removed or "modified" in their words out in the field while hunting. After a long discussion with a gamewarden, I went with the 350 legend in a SS CVA Scout

 

[hunt1up]

Double check your laws. That isn't allowed here in Louisiana as it can be removed or "modified" in their words out in the field while hunting. After a long discussion with a gamewarden, I went with the 350 legend in a SS CVA Scout

I put a call in to the local warden. He confirmed the sled is fine in IL. The next step is me actually buying the rifle. I have a CVA Scout that I like, but it might be getting sold to a friend for his kids to use due to it's compact size, hence my consideration of the Tikka.

 

[mtnbiker208]

if ruger makes a #1 in 350 legend. go that route. But i am fond of the #1.

 

[WW2 Buff]

The single round magazine wouldn’t be legal as you can load one round in the chamber and one in the magazine. It is possible to pull the spring out of an existing factory magazine but you will never get it back in correctly if you wanted to reuse it in the future. You could do that and still keep an empty mag in the rifle just to fill the magazine area void or hunt without the magazine in. I know it’s legal to hunt without the spring from hinged floor plate rifles so removing the spring from the Tikka magazine would be similar. Would be much easier to use the single shot CVA you could reload quickly.

 

[Pharmseller]

I put a call in to the local warden. He confirmed the sled is fine in IL. The next step is me actually buying the rifle. I have a CVA Scout that I like, but it might be getting sold to a friend for his kids to use due to it's compact size, hence my consideration of the Tikka.

Get it in writing.





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[hunt1up]

That’s a good call. He was a really helpful dude. I’m sure he’d do that.

I can probably just modify a mag to be blind if push comes to shove. Put an insert in one or something.

 

[hunt1up]

Well I got the Tikka 350 and also the mag single shot sled. As it sits, the sled will allow the gun to be a 2 shot weapon. I ended up gluing the sled into position, which stops it from compressing to load an extra round. Essentially making it a blind magazine. I can just drop in a round on top of the mag and load it right into the barrel. Really easy.

This gun shoots SWEET. Similar accuracy to all other Tikkas I had/have. Shooting the Bear Creek Ballistics 140 grain high velocity rounds I'm getting 2475fps out of a 24" barrel. Slightly slower than I anticipated, but for a straight wall deer gun it's pretty great.