Tikka t3 light weight mods

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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..
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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.

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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.

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Originally Posted by DBD

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

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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....