The Raven: Unknown Munitions Tikka Clone action coming soon?

[Procision Arms]

@Procision Arms I have a couple questions regarding the reverse engineering of Tikka/Sako's GD&T and materials.

Without giving away too many secrets, how did you come up with your GD&T approach? I didn't really give this much thought until I heard the raven bolts are interchangeable with factory tikka actions. Clearly Sako isn't going to let you take a peek at their prints. I have a couple ideas how I would have done it, but I am interested to see how a professional organization did it.

Did you guys exactly replicate chemical composition, hardness, and grain structure to a tikka action or did you take it in a different direction? I know I have struggled with slight alloy differences between what is available in EU vs NA, and it can be a real headache.

It would be pretty difficult to discuss our approach without giving away too many “secrets”, but it was a long process with a lot of testing and retesting by a couple of pretty talented guys.

The metal composition is definitely one of the harder parts, we had to have a full mill run of custom material made.

I think the most important part of the project was that it isn’t a “copy” of a Tikka. It’s a receiver built around the idea of improving an already very good receiver with a couple features for the US market and backcountry hunters. We felt it was important to maintain compatibility with factory Tikka components to give customers as much flexibility and aftermarket support as possible.

 

[benconfused]

It would be pretty difficult to discuss our approach without giving away too many “secrets”, but it was a long process with a lot of testing and retesting by a couple of pretty talented guys.

The metal composition is definitely one of the harder parts, we had to have a full mill run of custom material made.

I think the most important part of the project was that it isn’t a “copy” of a Tikka. It’s a receiver built around the idea of improving an already very good receiver with a couple features for the US market and backcountry hunters. We felt it was important to maintain compatibility with factory Tikka components to give customers as much flexibility and aftermarket support as possible.

@Procision Arms Do you have some close up pics of the dust cover area? Couldn't really tell on the interview.

 

[Procision Arms]

@Procision Arms Do you have some close up pics of the dust cover area? Couldn't really tell on the interview.

Still under development, no pictures to share yet.

 

[atmat]

I think the most important part of the project was that it isn’t a “copy” of a Tikka. It’s a receiver built around the idea of improving an already very good receiver with a couple features for the US market and backcountry hunters. We felt it was important to maintain compatibility with factory Tikka components to give customers as much flexibility and aftermarket support as possible.

I get what you’re saying here. But saying it’s an “Tikka clone” or “Tikka custom” is totally fine. Folks are familiar with that vernacular from R700 platforms.

Stoked to shoot this thing. Collecting parts now while I wait.

 

[nm.otter]

The metal composition is definitely one of the harder parts, we had to have a full mill run of custom material made.

Fascinating. Were you looking for specific attributes that you felt the T3x lacked?

 

[Schmo]

Fascinating. Were you looking for specific attributes that you felt the T3x lacked?

From the podcast with them, the steel used in the Tikka is not something that is commonly available here, so they had to have a run of it made

 

[RockAndSage]

I get what you’re saying here. But saying it’s an “Tikka clone” or “Tikka custom” is totally fine. Folks are familiar with that vernacular from R700 platforms.

Stoked to shoot this thing. Collecting parts now while I wait.

Tikka on the streets, Ferrari in the sheets.

 

[Gstew1930]

Has the weight been announced yet?

 

[BBob]

Has the weight been announced yet?

Not for sure that I’ve seen or heard plus they’ll have two models. The light and a regular.

The regular will likely be close to a factory Tikka and the light probably close to the UM lightened Tikka’s I’d think.

 

[Tahoe1305]

Not for sure that I’ve seen or heard plus they’ll have two models. The light and a regular.

25oz no trigger is what I recall reading earlier. Think it was a target not final spec weight.

 

[BBob]

25oz no trigger is what I recall reading earlier. Think it was a target not final spec weight.

Careful now, the snipers hide boys are taking notes and will hold those responsible hands to the fire if they go over even a smidge on final over the target weights