Rebarreling my 270 wsm

[Tim Johnson]

Ok this question is for the gun nuts
I’ve had my tikka t3 270 WSM for 15 years and now I’m thinking about a rebarrel im thinking about a 26” lilja in a 1/8 or 1/7.5 twist my goal is to shoot the 165 or 170 gr bullets im thinking pretty straight forward or will I have a over all length problem….please help

 

[Billy Goat]

Probably better in firearm forum.

 

[J.B.]

Ok this question is for the gun nuts
I’ve had my tikka t3 270 WSM for 15 years and now I’m thinking about a rebarrel im thinking about a 26” lilja in a 1/8 or 1/7.5 twist my goal is to shoot the 165 or 170 gr bullets im thinking pretty straight forward or will I have a over all length problem….please help

Assuming you reload, build a few dummies at max coal for your mag, and see how they feed.

I ran 170 bergers in a long action for a long time at 3.100 coal. A hot load of h1000 shot them at 3100 fps out of a 26” benchmark bbl.

 

[limpet]

Not 270 wsm but I had a 300 wsm put together on a tikka. Long action mags and the long action bolt stop and I’m loading to 3.1” no problem. The throat will be your biggest issue.

 

[Lou270]

I had a Kimber 8400 270 wsm rebarreled with 1-8 Hawk Hill. So long as have at least 3” mag will be fine. I think all tikka are long action anyway? So should not be a problem but may need to change a bolt stop or something

Lou

 

[NWBLKTAIL]

Swap bolt stop to LA and run LA mags or get the hells canyon gen 2 mags for the extended COL saum/wsm cases.

26” barrel you should produce some pretty good speeds

Like others have said grab the bullet you want and make a dummy round so you get the throat right and chew up case capacity