The Rokslide effect- First Tikka build

[Feral Jared]

Feeling like the cat who caught the canary tonight after picking up my first Tikka! Since my first job at a gun shop 20 years ago, I’ve always wanted a tikka (SS/ gray Laminate specifically). Fast forward to today, after a whole two months here, I’ve got my grubby mits on a used .270 T3 for a donor action at a very reasonable (imo) 450. Big thanks to the previous owner that spray painted the stock and tanked the resale value haha!

Last week I got a great deal here on a take-off 7mm-08 barrel that I’ll have shortened to 20” and threaded for a can. I haven’t decided if I’ll swap out to a SA bolt stop and bottom metal yet because the final final plan is to rebarrel it to .284 Win, which will benefit from the LA setup.

Eventually I’ll source a SWFA 3-9 for it, but I might go with a fixed 10x in the meantime. For the immediate future, I borrowed a friends 270 dies and loaded up some 150sst to see how it shoots “out of the box” with a cheap vortex I have on the shelf.

I’ll use the factory stock for now, but I think it’ll end up in some shape of Stocky’s CF soon enough.

 

[Marbles]

Nice find for a great price.

It is worth spending the money for the tools to change the barrel yourself in my opinion. I certainly like having mine.

 

[43.6N]

Sounds like you got yourself pretty well sorted out!
I’ll echo marbles advice above. Invest as you can in your own tooling.

About your long action bolt stop: it sounds like you’re already in business with a gunsmith to cut and thread a 7-08 barrel at 20 inches right? You might ask about reaming the chamber with a 7mm-08 Ackley reamer, and throating it for longer bullets. Then you can make full use of your long action, and be 90% of the way (performance wise) to your ultimate goal of 284win.

Or he might even be able to ream the 7-08 chamber out to 284win from the get go. Never hurts to ask.

Looking forward to seeing some groups from ya!