Member Ericbc7
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Dogdown posted a link a few months back to a place that supplied screws etc of many specs. Sorry I can't recall the details
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Check eBay, I'm serious I have seen more than one there
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The stock firing pin spring should be fine for any combination of caliber and mod. I say this without personal exp, I can't imagine a scenario where the fireing pin spring is the deciding factor on a rifle build.
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The scope might be ok but the question is “compared to what”? Big hard recoiling rifle with potential to hit at long range…get a good scope and use that rifle to its max!
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Follow dog's reccomendations and you will have few regrets on this
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If by “standard rings” you mean the ones that come with the rifle, then I say “no”.
Dump those factory rings and get decent after market ones of nearly any manufacture. I love the DNZ one piece but get mountain tactical rails and any steel rings that fit.
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I have no advice on powders for .308.
If you want to wring the last bit of performance from your weapon, then read the hundreds of posts on load development on accurate shooter.com started by Erik Cortina. -
I moan and cry when I see that Tikka only imports the 1:10 twist t3 light in .223 since I love faster twists. But I will acknowledge that the 1:10 twist works for lighter bullets and the quality seems to carry through. There will never be a video of a 1:10 twist hitting a milk jug at 1k yards, but there will be some of a similar gun hitting a target at 600 yds. So if we keep the bullets under 55 gr or so, then wow!
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Update but no info… Sorry guys I have been conspired against by nature and man lately. My gun club had a complaint and I have been on the road. Soon as the wind dies and I am free for half a day I will shoot and post my data on the IMR 4166 in .223 with 75 gr amax (moly).
Keep shooting!
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Any results you want to share? I am very keen to know. A buddy of mine shot a huge moose in ALaska 2 years ago with barns ttsx bullets in his 338 mag. To be honest he could have put it down with any bullet with the shot he made. The performance was first rate but neither projectile was recovered. The load was very accurate on paper.
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Hi guys, just had time to scan the posts but here is my routine:
I focus the crosshairs on a blank wall, I crank the scope to high power and focus the object with the parallax adjustment. If the target is in focus, eye position is minimally influential.
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Sd is useful if you know the theory, a better measure (in my humble opinion) is es (extreme spread). Es will give you insight into vertical at range, and more important tells you in fewer rounds if your able to keep your loads in the sweet spot you worked so hard to determine with load development. If your es is large then your oal is hard to determine.
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Congrats and let us know how it works for you!
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Hey torontoAlex! Sorry been on the road for a bit. I submitted a set of targets to Erik Cortina on Accurate Shooter.com last year from my tikka 30-06 loaded with 165 gr bthp and h4350 and rem primers. If any powder should be consistent it should be H4350. Cortina commented on my extreme spread which suggest something was amiss in my reloading. I was using Forster dies and gem-pro 250 scale. Not sure what was problem, but I had a significant jump to lands ( perhaps 30 thou). I used old rem primers, I now have new wolf primers, and know more about everything reloading related. I also used new rem brass. When I do load testing again for this rifle, I will use once fired, and less hot primers (wolf). I expect much better results.
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My new sinclaire is nice but for most applications I use Harris, 2 models the 9″ and the tall 25″.
