My Tikka groups suck

[Bowfinn]

I'll do what I can to get more "space", and I am hesitant to tighten more and potentially break something. I just got some 140 ELDM factory to try with it. I hear you on the pins, and will see if I can get it (hesitation is the convo with UM that they were unnecessary on the lower recoil rifles with proper torque).

Replacement trigger guards are $12 on eBay if you have an action screw pull through. I tighten mine down to 60in lbs with a thread locking compound, and will continue to do so even if I had one pull through tonight.

Edit: disregard you got it tightened up properly

Tikka T3X polymer OEM trigger guard | eBay

For a detailed description of the part/s & component/s please refer to my title and pictures and for the type of firearm please refer to my item specifics.Genuine polymer (not metal) Tikka part. Prior to the brand new rifle being fired this was removed for an upgrade. Brand new.

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[Dave Thomas]

Why are you switching between right and left hand while doing load development?

 

[philcox]

Why are you switching between right and left hand while doing load development?

Mostly because I seem to shoot just about the same. Also thought I’d get “less tired” swapping, but as was pointed out, I was injecting variability into the equation, so now will shoot one or the other during and entire session.


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[Rich M]

Those groups look fine.

If you are worried about your form. Sign up for a RS shooting class.

 

[Harvey_NW]

You may have gotten a bad rifle, YES Tikka makes a turd now and again

 

[JGRaider]

Blaming the rifle/equipment is the easy button. Change your powder and bullets first.

 

[philcox]

As a bit of a reminder of how this thread got started: I posted a bunch of groups on the “show me your Tikka 10 round groups” thread, and mentioned that my groups were nowhere near what people were showing on that thread. That’s when [mention]ResearchinStuff [/mention] suggested, I start another thread, and folks could try to help me dial in what was going on. So I started this thread, and it has been very helpful.

There were two specific items that I did wrong that this group pointed out, which had nothing to do with the actual load ( be a good or bad) I was evaluating:

1. My action was improperly set in my OEM stock. It was actually resting on top of the recoil lug, and not the recoil lug in the slot.

2. I was trying to do too much at one time, thinking that I was being efficient, where in reality I was becoming sloppy.

By adjusting, both of those, I had a marked improvement in the groups utilizing essentially the same rifle and load. Now I’m going to try to tweak the load a little bit to see if I can get the groups a little bit smaller.


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[ResearchinStuff]

rokslide in action. it definitely helped that you had rifles, rings, and scopes that are well known commodities. so often the guys who ask for help have some type of obvious weak link component, get emotional about the suggestions to upgrade, and resort to throwing rocks/names at everyone who is trying to help.

for your load tweaking - try a temperature stable, single base extruded powder. H4350 is the starting point for the creed. maybe benchmark or varget for the 223 unless you can luck into some 8208 xbr.