Thread: Tikka t3 light weight mods

Originally Posted by MB

How short can you go with centrefire bolt actions, allowing for a full length stock and barrel length for an over-barrel suppressor? What barrel length do you end up with? Overall length is of more interest to me than weight. Cheers.

Seen some pretty short 308's made by Scott Trail. It comes down to acheiving a decent powder burn/speeds. I think he got the barrel down to 12 inches maybe. My memory is a bit spotty on it.

@FRST stock shape is primo!

Originally Posted by FRST

Seen some pretty short 308's made by Scott Trail. It comes down to acheiving a decent powder burn/speeds. I think he got the barrel down to 12 inches maybe. My memory is a bit spotty on it.

I think they were 10 inches and he was doing some crazy long shots with them with some fast burning powders. There was an awesome video floating around a few years back


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Originally Posted by Nick.m

I'm the same, recoil doesn't bother me, my tikka 7mm rem mag sits at 3.26kg with vx5 3-15x44, dpt magnum suppressor and stug stock and shoots clover sized groups all day.

I wouldn't mind dropping another couple of hundred grams off it though.

How so light that's epic

I can't answer that, nothing special. Just pulled it out and reweighed it. It came in at 3.24kg checked on 2 different sets of scales..

Originally Posted by FRST

I don't have the gear unfortunately. Sounds like an interesting idea though. I've done the Swiss cheese receiver on a another rifle. Made a little difference but not enough to warrant the cost. Probably would consider if I had milling equipment. Aesthetically I'd want to do it right, you can lose weight but end up with an ugly result if you weren't clever.

Ahh i figured a clever bugger like you might have some of the engineering goodies.

Is that with bolt, mag and can? A good pack shooter for sure.

Originally Posted by DBD

Is that with bolt, mag and can? A good pack shooter for sure.

Yea bolt, magazine and dpt magnum suppressor. (no ammo)

I wonder if one of our gurus could work out the felt recoil calculations for some of these options. A 3.2kg setup in .243 is a different beast to one in 7mmRM. Most of us probably don't worry about recoil on the hill, but it's different on the range I reckon. Have seen a few flinches develop... Always a good test to pretend to load it if your mate is not getting reasonable groups but denies worrying about recoil at all....