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If you still have these, I'd take them for $90 shipped

Sportsman's Warehouse has a few kicking around in their “Sportsmans Exclusive” super lite model with the fluted barrel, and I've seen them at Scheel's in a compact/youth length. You can also (on very rare occasions) find the heavy barreled version at gun shops/shows, too. Be advised, though- if you find one, do NOT let anyone know about it… Read more

I might be interested in trading you the bolt from my 300WSM…

Assuming you have an 8″ twist barrel…
75 grain amax's are twitchy. They like to be kissing the lands in my experience. I was getting roughly moa with them when I was jumping them, but it dropped down to .45 moa when I ran them out to the lands. The 80.5 grain Bergers are much more forgiving.

The 8″ twist Varmint will never let you down!

We've played around with this a bit. It's not terribly difficult, but be careful. If you allow the trigger adjustment screw to come out too much, you can lose the spring & plunger (they're hard to find once they fly). I've taken the trigger on my latest 223ai down to about 1.5# without seeing any slam fires or drop fires.

I'm sorry to say that we're not likely to be doing another group buy anytime soon. We're focusing our efforts on catching up to backorders on our core products now. As soon as we get suitable inventory numbers on rails, lugs, & shrouds (being redesigned at the moment), we'll launch the new stuff we've hinted at recently.

This sounds like a great excuse to accelerate the destruction of my 300 WSM barrel! The faster I can fry this barrel, the faster I can get it rebarreled to 7SAUM.

Once we get caught up to our production schedule I'll pick up some & post some load development data…

Don't forget, we have a gunsmith. We can build you anything… (almost anything)

but, but, but , when I break a Harris, i don't cry…

I've always wanted an LRA, or Sinclair, or an Elite, but I break my stuff too often, and I would cry.

I finally got my head cleared out enough to post a few comments…

My experience with 75 amax's has shown them to be very sensitive to seating depth (they're VLD's if you ask me). If I give them a 20 thou jump, they group .86 moa. If I kiss the lands (2.494″ in mine), they group .45 moa.

Jason has found the 80.5 Bergers to be much more… Read more

They put those lugs in there to give us the opportunity to start tikkashooters.com & make them for you!

Jason listed the twist rates on our site with the Tikka rifles that we can get. I also know where  a guy can get his hands on an 8″ twist 223….

I have big love for my Borka!

🙂

Once Jason is back at 100%, we'll be installing & learning how to run the new CNC. We'll have a lot of catching up to do by then, but when we do catch up, I promise to add more options for the kits.

Jason has to have his gall bladder yanked next week, so it'll be another stinkin month before we get to the bottom metal…

We're looking at 4-6 weeks for the order I'm placing today, but if we awit until next week to order, it will be more like 8 weeks due to the volume from the IWA show.

We're ordering a couple extra since we think they'll catch on. So if you can't jump in today, we might be able to cover you when they show up. 😉

How does your recoil lug look?

Awww, you don't have to throw them away- you can send em to me 🙂

I found an 8 twist 223 super light at a local big name store awhile back….. And bought it ! Then I punched it out to 223AI. I'm diggin it so far! Just need to decide between the factory stock @ 7# & change, or the comp/tac at 8 1/2#.  Here's a couple teaser pics.

For the GB, I'm trying to whittle away from the following list:

7-08 compact- punch… Read more

I just stumbled into a deal on an 8″ twist super light. I'll post results as I can

Northernex- I suspect you haven't noticed that Jason & I are both running short mags for match rifles? 

lol- as soon as we dig out from the Christmas rush, we'll get back to it! We had to bump the new stuff to keep up with the core products.

Sexy looking rifle! Do you mind if we post these on our Tikka Performance Center facebook page?

that's a screaming deal!

Pharmseller,

we have a few (big pile!) laying around- $50 sound fair?

robert.p@temp.tikkashooters.com

Ks- shoot me an email if you're interested in sending it to us for the new barrel. We have a full service gunsmith onboard with  us now.

robert.p@temp.tikkashooters.com

I've noticed excessive muzzle flip in everything that has a drop angle to the stock since i started shooting aftermarket (M40 style) stocks. Benchrest has ruined us, my friend…. 🙂

No doubt, Airfoil! I can't afford factory ammo (ok, I do chew through a couple cases of Tula every year in carbine classes), so I reload it all. Before I hired on full time here I was asst mgr at Sportsman's for awhile. I don't pay retail for reloading components. Realistically, I pay under 40 cents per round with most of my rifles.

I've run the… Read more

Guess I'm a princess, too.
17 fireball- braked, because I can see the little gopher heads explode on high power with it- priceless!
223's- no brakes yet, but seriously thinking about throwing a Kaw Valley linear brake on an AR
260- no brake- don't shoot it much (rem 7)
7saum- big brake- I can see impact at 100. Sorry if it's too loud for ya… I… Read more

Light gun + big cartridge = bunged up tips. My 300 wsm does the same.

I've been single feeding with a single shot follower- works quite well for me for now. 

We should be able to start machining our long action bottom metal & metal T3 magazines pretty soon (this is definitely a big reason why we want to make them). We hope to have it worked out… Read more

Simply put- I've broken almost every one of the others I've tried, & haven't broken any of the four or five sets of Harris pods that I own. Jason is the only dude I've known to break a set of Harris bipods- and I'm not sure how he managed that…
On a side note- the last set of caldwells I bought did hold up pretty well- they liked to loosen… Read more

I just put together a 223 ai T3 super light & picked the SWFA fixed 6x for it. With a total of 44.2 mils of erector travel, I should be able to dial out past 1k easily. I've taken it out to 430 fire forming cases & been happy with the setup. I will shoot some long shots with it, but it's primarily going to be a hunting rifle, and most shots will… Read more

Well done! And welcome to tikkashooters!

I have a 308 load for long stuff…

Be careful- it's not in any manuals. It's probably smart to start lower than I did with your charge weights.
The cartridge length is important with this one, too- gotta be 3″ plus to fit all the powder in there. 3.004″ is just where my seater wants to put em, and I'm not going to complain given its performance.
20… Read more

Hmmm, I've made a couple pokes with the Shamwow (not a Tikka), but with a Tikka? Probably this cow at 415 with the T3 lite 300 wsm. 208 amax over reloader 17 in win brass & cci br2's. MT parts list: Thumbhole Tactical stock, recoil lug, shroud, gen II steel rail, and muzzle break. And of course, limbsaver recoil pad. 

I'll work on some more… Read more

The first one on the list is the factory dimension drop in dbm. The long AICS compatible dbm comes later 🙂

I've seen me do it… But maybe I'm not?

Congratulations! I like that drop brow tine!

Heard rumor of 6.5×55 maybe coming to The States….

I got your email earlier, and I'm looking…

We feel your pain….
Our production schedule is brutal right now, but we have our own design in the works with anti-tilt follower & up to 10 rounds. We just need to get the stainless lugs, factory compatible dbm, and AICS compatible dbm done before we start machining them

We LOVE our 8 twist 223's!

One of the American Hunter prototypes in forest camo

Give us about a month….

We have bottom metal developed that will get you 3.625″ with the long AICS mags, but we find ourselves needing to replace a motor control board on the CNC before we can go into production.

Give us a call at the shop this week. 406-285-2371. We have a few options

I can't see how it wouldn't.

I'm leaning in the direction of scope issue now… It'll be interesting to see what vortex finds when they get it back

I've had both – and the zeiss hd glass is great! But…. I still have the vortex 4-16 FFP.
The z600 reticle in the zeiss was nice, too, but it had a crappy turret. The vortex glass isn't as good, but the turret more than makes up for that (I benefit from good eyes).
I don't like the pst as much as the HS LR FFP vortex, either. Having 1/2 moa clicks… Read more

The only one I've spent any time with is the long range hunter. It was super comfy & reasonably accurate for sure. Whichever you choose, they benefit greatly from bedding.