Traded for a new Tikka CTR.

[EKYHunter]

Gratuitous pics.....The HIT now wears a Kahles

I’d be ashamed to show those Sweet rifles!!

 

[Wind Gypsy]

Made the mistake of bore scoping my new rifle while cleaning. The first couple inches of freebore and leade lands look terrible. Gouges,nicks, and grooves all over. My 6 year old standard T3x looks much better. But they both shoot great and the remainder of the bore looks very good.

Can you share the pics?

 

[MNfarmer]

Can you share the pics?

No, I have an old Lyman not connected to a device. I don’t know if it’s from reaming the chamber? The chamber itself is fairly good. There’s a gouge where the carbon ring forms and then the whole free bore is grainy looking with nicks in all the lands on one edge mostly. One land has two thin grooves in it running same direction as land and another has a gouge going crossways. Once you get a bit past the leade they look pretty good.

 

[MNfarmer]

Bought 8 more boxes of the Norma whitetail since both my tikkas like it. One of the cheapest loads available and shoots almost as tight as ELDX at 100 yards. Threw in a couple boxes of Tipstrike as well with my order. Shoots under an inch as well in my other tikka and worked great on 2 deer this last season. The Nosler whitetail country is plenty accurate in both guns as well so I may hunt with that next year as I like trying different bullets.