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I have a Stainless Lite in 7mm-08 but I haven't worked up any loads for it yet, I've been waiting nearly 6 months for a Bell & Carlson Medalist from Stocky's, Lord help me if I don't like it. That's what I get for taking them up on their backorder policy. Once I get the barrel/action mounted in what should be it's permanent stock I will start working up loads and post them as I go. I also have a long action bolt stop on the way from Roedale, I tried doing the mod myself, but I just wasn't satisfied with the results, (not quite reliable feeding which was just unsat). For what shipping from Germany costs I probably should have just bought myself a long action Tikka, ughhh. So, for what it's worth, I will be able to seat bullets out as far as the chamber will allow.
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That is very nice. What does a rig like that cost?
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This may come off like newbie voodoo, but I have at least one rifle that I cannot make boat tail bullets group worth a s**t, but it will shoot flat bottom bullets lights out. Might be worth a try anyway.
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So did you decide one way or the other Hawk45? I went ahead and modified the bolt stop on my 7mm-08 and ordered a LA magazine. I'm doing some other things to the rifle but I'll let you know how it works out once I've got the gun shooting again.
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Congratulations on an outstanding load, wow, I hope to be able to do that some day. I've had good luck with 7mm 160gr Deep Curls, but not even close to your grouping, I just felt good about having a sub 1 inch load worked up.
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I just got my Tikka T3 Lite, haven't even fired it yet, but I've been reloading 7mm-08 for a little over a year for my TC Icon. I took a couple of loads that the TC shoots well (sub 1″), and tried to chamber them in the Tikka, No Joy, both loads bind in the lands. So even though the magazines are very similar between the two rifles, it appears the Tikka has a tighter chamber, and the bullets will have to be seated a bit deeper. So the Tikka magazine can actually accommodate a longer bullet than the chamber in 7mm-08 (bullets in question are Speer Deep Curl 160gr, and Speer BTSP 145gr), which I credit to the fact that the magazine is built for a .308, much like your magazine is built for 300 WSM.
If you've already experimented with it enough that you've got it figured out I'd love to read what your final results were.
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Thanks for the update. I'd read about “fire-lapping” in American Rifleman, last year I think, but they were doing it in pistols if I recall correctly. I've read several posts saying that you don't need to break-in the Sako barrels, not in the shoot-clean-shoot-clean sense anyway, and it seems to me Tubb's Final Finish is break-in on steroids. It would probably seem like a miracle cure if you had a burr or two hidden in your rifling though.
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I'm not even sure you'd have to do it for 243, since it's the same mag as a 308, I think if you compare the COAL of a 243 loaded pretty far out, it's still going to be short of a 165gr. loaded in 308 Win, (that's what I figure the magazine length was made for). Especially with a 1:10″ twist, might not really be worth trying to load anything over 100gr, or extreme VLD stuff. I don't mean to be discouraging, I've just been thinking it over, and that popped into my head. I still think it's worth trying with a 260 or 7mm-08. I have a TC Icon in 7mm-08 that likes Speer Deep Curls seated pretty far out, 0.010″ past the Speer recommendation, but I can't seat Swift Scirrocco II's or Hornady Interbonds out because the plastic tips interfere with the magazine. The Tikka action should give me plenty of opportunity to play with that theory.
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Well it's been quite a while, did you ever get a definitive result to your new accuracy testing?
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Thanks for the info, I think I might have to try that, I probably ought to see what it does out of the box before I get too silly with the tinkering though.
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I thought there was a bolt stop to limit the travel of the bolt, in conjunction with the difference in magazines, (so you have a different bolt throw for 223 vs. 308 vs. 30-06). If I'm wrong and you're right, that could make for some very interesting loads from anything in the .308 Win Family, I've got a 7mm-08 on the way and loading 154gr Interbonds a bit “out” would be worth some experimentation.
