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.

 

[MNfarmer]

Took it out one last time for now. Switching to other things. Really likes the Norma loads. This is about as good as I am capable of.

 

[tom_89]

Had a high value rifle I hadn’t shot for 10 years so I traded it close to even up for this new Tikka CTR 6.5 creedmoor. In a couple years when my next kid can start deer hunting I’ll take out the stock spacers and start them out with this. It’s heavy but we hunt from ground blinds anyway- not much walking. Splurged on PMR rings and a Trijicon Huron 3-12x40. Ran a full box of precision hunters through it. Best 2 groups were 3/4 and 7/8 inches. Next time out ran cheaper Nosler and Norma whitetail loads through it and got a little over an inch with those. A better shooter could probably cut these groups in half. I’m just using a bench bag with a rolled up sock under the butstock. I find from the bench my groups stray slightly right but are right on when field shooting. I may try a bipod and rear bag next time. I have an old Harris sitting here I’ve never really used.

It's a great deal! The CTR in 6.5 Creedmoor is a solid shooter. The kids will definitely be happy with it in a couple of years.