Show your Tikka ten round groups

[Jimbee]

Tikka .243 superlite barrel cut to 17", Raptor8. Lapua brass 108 eldm 44grains of StaBall6.5. Had a slight ejector mark on one of the last shots. Waiting on my chronograph to check velocity. How much should a person back down powder charge with a slight ejector mark? 75 degrees F and sunny. Everything was warm.

 

[ljalberta]

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Tikka .243 superlite barrel cut to 17", Raptor8. Lapua brass 108 eldm 44grains of StaBall6.5. Had a slight ejector mark on one of the last shots. Waiting on my chronograph to check velocity. How much should a person back down powder charge with a slight ejector mark? 75 degrees F and sunny. Everything was warm.

I personally back down at least half a grain on a warm day and a least a full grain if I have an ejector mark on a cold day.

Not sure your load reference or how deep you’re seating the bullets, but Hodgdon has max at 43.1gr and using Winchester cases, which I believe have more room than Lapua (don’t quote me on this).

Sure shoots good groups though.

 

[Jimbee]

I personally back down at least half a grain on a warm day and a least a full grain if I have an ejector mark on a cold day.

Not sure your load reference or how deep you’re seating the bullets, but Hodgdon has max at 43.1gr and using Winchester cases, which I believe have more room than Lapua (don’t quote me on this).

Sure shoots good groups though.

Yeah, I went off Hodgdon website and loaded 5. One each at 40,41,42,43,44 grains at around .025 off the lands. I'll back down a grain and shoot some more. I shot a 28 round group with 7828ssc that was 2.2"

 

[gulfofmexicoflyfishing]

Did a little data collection on my first batch of 147 eldm hand loads today. Rifle was still zeroed for the factory 143 eldx loads I was shooting previously.

That is a 30rd group from my factory 20” CTR. Ballistic x only allows me to record 10 shots but I measured the group at 1.3175moa with calipers. Either way this thing certainly feels like the easy button!

 

[walk2112]

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Oh yeah! Just arrived tonight. Kudos to Form, UM, and Stockys. Was one of the first people to pre-order and really appreciate the 2-day shipping to AK! Got a call just on Monday from the coatings team to confirm details of cerakote, so that’s pretty speedy work! The “inverted color/gray scale Finnish M05 winter camo” idea I pulled out of my ass turned out pretty cool too. Best feeling grip and texture of any stock I’ve felt, ergonomics are natural to shoulder off hand after a few presentations, and immediately so in prone/sitting/tripod supported. The fore-end stiffness is excellent even with dead-cat inlet contour… I could go on but I am really digging it… enough that I already assume I’ll very likely be putting my Model 70’s custom Bansner stock up for sale this year once that all comes together. Excellent stock!

This rifle/setup, managed to shoot this 10 rnd group today at 100 yards with factory Sierra 130 gr TGK. Just a stock 6.5 Creed superlite chopped/threaded at the end of the flutes and rokstok’d. Feels good!
Needs .1up/.1rt but the NX8 doesn’t deal in small bills.

 

[crich]

This rifle/setup, managed to shoot this 10 rnd group today at 100 yards with factory Sierra 130 gr TGK. Just a stock 6.5 Creed superlite chopped/threaded at the end of the flutes and rokstok’d. Feels good!
Needs .1up/.1rt but the NX8 doesn’t deal in small bills.
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That's a shooter!

 

[PlumberED]

Brand new Tikka T3x, CTR, 308 w, 20” barrel, NF SHV 3-10X42 & TBAC Dominus CB. Bipod and rear bags. I grabbed a random hand load I had on the shelf for my Savage 308. 4 shots to get it centered, then fired one 5 shot group, shifted down a ¼ MOA, then fired another 5. The high shot is from me not letting the suppressor cool, I was getting a good bit of mirage. ⅞“ group.

 

[Castle Rock]

Tikka HB 223
77TMK 23.7/ 8208
10 at 100 metres
Just over.5 MOA,

 

[Gravel Road]

Brand new Tikka 223 Lite. Barrel cut to 18 and threaded. 10x SWFA. First shots ever with scope, rifle and small rear bag prone off picnic table. First 10 shots under an inch, adjust scope, then 5 shots just under an inch, then adjust scope one click down and 15 in 1.5. with 25 year old powder-lol. A few fliers on the 15 shot group that were probably me, but still very happy. Still learning the rifle and new technique of thumb and index finger holding the rear and using other 3 fingers to squeeze the small bag for adjustment.

 

[Marbles]

 

[TX_Diver]

77TMKs with 2 powders

 

[Pickettpuncher]

12 shots. 25 creed. 134 eldm

75gr rmr bthp, xbr. 6 shots.

 

[DangerRanger]

20 shots, norma 130 GT, lots of mirage but think I performed decently still.

 

[TX_Diver]

15 rounds (8 on top 7 on bottom). These were loaded 2 years ago and then I started shooting 75 ELD-Ms. I seated these a little further today to 2.26 COAL and shot them just under 100 yards.

Shot the top group rushed as it was starting to rain.

I'd say all 15 fall within 1.2"-1.3" or so. And also conveniently have a pretty similar POI as the TMKs from my last test so I'll note the zero offset on the gun and play with both.

I have a bunch of SMKs so I think I'm going to do some bulk loading of the SMK with 24gr of N140 , and then use up the sta-ball match with some TMKs

 

[Lawnboi]

PVA 6 creed short throat prefit. Zero confirmation/ velocity data groups.

Ignore the oddities, I recycle targets.

 

[AlpineCarpetbagger]

First 21 shots with Superlite 6.5 CM after chop and thread for new suppressor. 130 TMK w/ H4350, factory stock, barrel channel hacked out with a mora companion. 103 yards.

Prone over backpack stuffed with dirty shirts, fisting the buttstock. Broke position to reload every 3 shots and give the suppressor a few moments to cool.

It started looking pretty wavy and fuzzy for the last several shots, but I don’t think I can blame much on the mirage.

 

[ShootOkHuntWorse]

77TMKs with 2 powders

How’s the Staball Match working for you?

 

[TX_Diver]

How’s the Staball Match working for you?

Decent group, but I can't say that it look like it's going to do any better on velocity than N140.

If it meters well in the powder measure I'll load up some TMKs with it just to use it up, but I'll just keep using N140 as I've got 12-13lbs of it still.

 

[bojangles808]

24 in t3xlite in a rokstock. factory 147 eldm

 

[walk2112]

20” CTR in 260 Rem likes the latest 147 ELD-M recipe with IMR4955.

Also got some time with the RokStok’d Creedmoor with 147 factory fodder, not my best work, but I’ll take it.