I have had the most luck with:

90gr. Sierra Blitzking over 55gr of IMR4831
100gr. Sierra Matchking over 53.5gr of IMR4831
100gr. Nosler BalisticTip over 53.5gr of IMR4831

All with standard COALs from the reloading manuals.  Using Nosler brass, neck sizing only.  Seating bullets with a Forster Ultra-Micrometer seating die.  If I use my Hornady co… Read more

I have only used the 100gr Nosler Ballistic Tip on deer (since it is designed for it).  It's lightning.

Regarding bedding…  I used the same old standard procedure everybody does, except with the tikka, you need to use a very thin line of superglue to hold the recoil lug into the action slot.  Once that dries make sure the gaps between the lug an… Read more

I really like the DNZ 1 piece mount/rings due to the fact that they bolt to the action, instead of clamping on the action's rails.  The T3 Lite in 25-06 produces some pretty considerable recoil.  Another thing that may help your shooting is a Limbsaver recoil pad.  At one point I put that on the factory synthetic stock and it really reduced my “s… Read more

Last January I bought a T3 stainless in 25-06.  Started off great, but groups quickly went downhill, with lots of vertical stringing.  I removed the factory scope rings that I was using and found that the ring that has the recoil lug in it was the culprit.  The hole in the ring that the lug sits in was egg-holed badly, and the lug was bent at a… Read more

Hi
  are you going to do all the mods in one go ?, or one at a time , if you do them all at once you might never know exactly what was wrong !

UPDATE:  I went to the range with the just the new DNZ scope mount, steel lug, and recoil pad in.  My groups with the 80gr Barnes TTSX was .5″ and the 90gr Sierra Blitzkings were .75″.  I believe it was the… Read more

That's impossible, as the “webbing” is recessed under the barrel channel. That “webbing” you refer to is for strength. It may have been making contact somewhere, but it wasn't there.

Sounds like a bedding issue. Did you take the barreled action out and sand a little off the sides of the stock up by the barrel shank? Easy fix, and works…

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I am having similar issues with my SS Tikka T3 lite, 25-06.  My groups are approximately 2″ (with mostly vertical stringing).  Sometimes I can put a pair of shots right next to each other, but mostly the shots just dance up and down the paper in a 2″ tall, 1/2″ wide column.  I reload and have tried numerous combinations of bullets and powder.

I re… Read more