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Sounds like a plan!! Thanks for the pics! I would've never thought that the Varmint was actually that much thicker than the CTR, glad I asked. Funny, most of the time the thick barrels is what drives the price of a rifle up, but I guess “Tactical” is all the rage now.
I like a thicker barrel for bench shooting, and in the woods I really don't notice the weight that bad (I usually carry my rifle along my back, diagonal from shoulder to hip if that makes since), but at the range, I run into being impatient, and hate having to weight for a barrel to cool down. So I gladly take thicker!!!
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I don't own a Tikka…… yet, but I would for sure stick to lefty if that's what you shoot. If found some on gun broker and other such sites yoh should check out, especially if a barrel is something you want, you'd just need a stock and action to be decent.
As for 223, I think it's a good round, lots of options, lots of reloading data, etc. I have a Winchester 70 in 223, and the options for ammo, subsonic, match, bullets, etc is daunting. Hence my next rifle is going to be a Tikka in 308, purely for options in ammo, especially since I plan on tinkering with suppressed.
Just like you, sorting through the Tikka rifle options now.
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That's what I was thinking, save a cool few hundred bucks, haha, better glass? But still wondering the specs of these barrels. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find alot of Tikkas around to hold them side by side
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Wow, that is impressive shooting!
But I guess I'm having a hard time noticing the differences here. Does the TCR (which was my first pick, cause I'm a smaller guy) have a thicker barrel than the Varmint? And how much thicker than the regular T3's? It's about $500 more than the Varmint, the Varmint being $300 or so more, but from what I can see has a thicker barrel than regular T3s, that I can cut down and thread. 10 shot doesn't mean much to me, as I can only hunt with 5 rounds. For more, I'll grab my Sig MCX with the Binary Trigger 😉
Does anybody happen to have barrel specs for the different models?
