Thread: Tikka Laminated stocks

Originally Posted by Flyblown

I’ve got one here. It’s a nice stock, and it’s been well used, but is remarkably unscathed. Very tough. I’ll weigh it a bit later and let you know.

Their weakness is that they are not pillar bedded. This means that repeated un-doing and re-tightening of the action screws can all too easily compress the laminate under the trigger guard, resulting in some shifting around of the action. Mine was on a .308 and when I moved to a staunch load under 180gr bullets, the recoil and movement was enough to munt the recoil log and turn accuracy to crap.

I solved it by pillar and epoxy bedding it, and epoxy bedding the trigger guard into the bottom of the stock. Came up mint.

I’ll say this though. There’s something about the Tikka stock design that seems to transfer felt recoil much more readily than the DPT chassis I have on it now. I seem to remember one of the stock wizards on here wrote a post about why this is the case?

I can shoot the rifle in the DPT chassis all day and I don’t get the green bruise on the front of my collarbone, and the DPT doesn’t even have a recoil pad. But the Tikka stock always left me with a bruise.

Thank you fly blown, I have heard about the felt recoil in tikka and laminate stocks. Be keen to read that if anyone knows the link?
What caliber shooter is your restocked Tikka?