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I have posted about this rifle before. But I made some changes recently, replacing the Stockys stock with a Peak 44 Blacktooth, bedded, and changed cans from a Gemtech Tracker to Scythe.
Have been too busy with kid activities to load up rounds, so I grabbed some Berger 130 gr match ammo and hit the desert with the family to try it out for the first time since the changes.
Damn… this rifle can shoot.
10 shot group at 100, .837 MOA.
Rifle is Tikka 6.5cm Superlight, barrel chopped to 16” by local smith, bolt fluted by Kemfeld. 7.5lbs pictured.
Wife shot it great as well, and will likely be using it for her cow elk this winter. She is very recoil sensitive from a bad car accident and felt it had a touch too much recoil in its old configuration combined with my 130 TMK loads I threw together before a hunt last year (no load dev). But I think the new stock simply fits her better or perhaps the Blacktooth recoil pad is better, or the Scythe with muzzle brake end cap… or all of the above, because she thought today’s session with the 130 bergers was just fine. Even my 10 and 11 year old boys were banging steel standing off tripod no problem.
Overall I am very satisfied with the final product, so any of you out there considering chopping a superlight, provided your smith does his job, there are no issues.
Have been too busy with kid activities to load up rounds, so I grabbed some Berger 130 gr match ammo and hit the desert with the family to try it out for the first time since the changes.
Damn… this rifle can shoot.
10 shot group at 100, .837 MOA.
Rifle is Tikka 6.5cm Superlight, barrel chopped to 16” by local smith, bolt fluted by Kemfeld. 7.5lbs pictured.
Wife shot it great as well, and will likely be using it for her cow elk this winter. She is very recoil sensitive from a bad car accident and felt it had a touch too much recoil in its old configuration combined with my 130 TMK loads I threw together before a hunt last year (no load dev). But I think the new stock simply fits her better or perhaps the Blacktooth recoil pad is better, or the Scythe with muzzle brake end cap… or all of the above, because she thought today’s session with the 130 bergers was just fine. Even my 10 and 11 year old boys were banging steel standing off tripod no problem.
Overall I am very satisfied with the final product, so any of you out there considering chopping a superlight, provided your smith does his job, there are no issues.
