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I have a T3x SS/synth that I've started playing with. Any recipes you care to share? Also with Talleys and a Leupold.Mine was a 7mm Rem Mag, a cartridge I have a lot of experience with. I just could not get it to shoot well. Different powders, bullets, brass, primers, etc. Ended up bedding it and that got the groups to be somewhat uniform in shape, but still around 1 1/2 inches. It was a week before hunting season so I ran down to Sportsmans and picked up a Tikka T3 Superlite, a set of talley lightweights, and mounted a VX3 3.5-10x40 on it. I have the same setup as my coyote gun. The new rifle shot five shots into an inch and a half....at 300 yards. It does kick more due to weight, but it shoots.
I have a T3x SS/synth that I've started playing with. Any recipes you care to share? Also with Talleys and a Leupold.
Yup.A 7mm Rem Mag?
Yup.
Roger. Thanks! I'll have to pick up some of those. I have a partial box of Scirocco 150 gr that may be worth a try.Im loading 64gr of H4831sc behind a 150 gr Nosler Accubond Long Range with CCI 250 primer in Hornady Brass. I'm not setting speed records at an avg of 3000 fps, but its been a very consistent load that shoots good groups. Im using up the whole magazine length for COAL. Just work up to it. No pressure signs in my gun.
Roger. Thanks! I'll have to pick up some of those. I have a partial box of Scirocco 150 gr that may be worth a try.
Good to know. I never had a lot of luck with the AccuBond, either, and after my one kill with a Ballistic Tip and a lot of lost meat I pretty much gave up on Nosler altogether. Too many good seasons with Sierras.I think they are fairly similar. I never got the original accubomb to shoot that great, but the long range version has been great.
The shortcomings of the sako system is the ejection. If you do an internet search, youll find many people having issues with their sako 85's and some A7 rifles like mine and the op's. I noticed when i had the SWFA SS on my sako, it had many failures to eject the brass out of the receiver. The root cause was the big turrets on the scope, coupled with the ejection angle. Its just a bad combination. Now, having said that, after switching to my Nightforce SHV 5-20×56, ive had absolutely no problems with the rifle. Tikkas ejection is much better in my experience.I have a friend who I've gone shooting with couple times now and he has a sako gray wolf (I think that's what he said) in 7 mag.
Always has some sort of bolt issue. Either chambering or ejecting. Maybe it's the operator?
I'm not really that impressed.
I'll take my tikka.