Thread: What do you think of this rifle in .308?

Originally Posted by dannyb

Plenty of nicer or better quality rifles around for $3.5k go have a look for yourself I never said carbon stocked and carbon barreled.
I'm not gonna search around for something I have no intention of buying. You can get a lot of rifle for that sort of money.

you can get a whole arenal for that money......heck its the defence budget for a small country!!!!!

Originally Posted by Shearer

With a carbon stock and barrel? So what would you consider a $3.5K off the shelf "Bentley"?

Weatherby Mark V Backcountry

https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....-5-06-a-86288/

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

.. will it bugger brass on first firing??? will it eject cases or rip off the rim???? will bolt handle fall off???? ...

Where on earth did those expectations come from MD??

Originally Posted by dannyb

Plenty of nicer or better quality rifles around for $3.5k go have a look for yourself I never said carbon stocked and carbon barreled.
I'm not gonna search around for something I have no intention of buying. You can get a lot of rifle for that sort of money.

Yeah you can, but my point is if you do want a carbon stock and barrel you will be hard pressed to find anything new for $3.6K with a better action/trigger than a Tikka. As MB pointed out, a Carbonlite is $6K.

Originally Posted by 6x47

Where on earth did those expectations come from MD??

the seller......

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Bentleys aren't made out of carbon fiber... It's not the be all and end all of quality construction...

I think the really expensive ones are. Makes them lighter.
The one in the OP looks like a Southfort carbon stock. I had one on my 7mmRM and didn't like it either but some people seem to get along with them ok.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

the seller......

from a Tikka??

Originally Posted by 6x47

Where on earth did those expectations come from MD??

Ive SEEN rifle sold in that particular "flea market" that had NO RIFLING in barrel.......another that was that corroded it may as well have been a shotgun...and they were new...norinco 7.62x39mm bolt actions.....
quality control is not the strongest point.....
but I may be biased...... 3.5k for anything out of gunshitty is a big gamble.....

These are supposedly new unfired guns. If Tikka found they were selling anything sus, I'd imagine they'd be chopped off the retailer list.

Originally Posted by MB

Good, bad, good deal, rip off? Hate as much as you like. I know next to nothing about carbon wrapped barrels.

https://www.guncity.com/tikka-t3x-ca...hreaded-367030

I will stick with my Blue steel Walnut stocked Sako 75

Those Accutech stocks are horrible in both build quality and proportions/shaped. Weird bulbous palm swell etc.

I would just buy a standard Tikka and put a Hi-tech stock or preferably a Carbon Manners stock (if you can find one) on it.
I wouldn't want a Tikka barrel that has been turned down and then carbon wrapped which this sounds like. To many possibilities for issues associated with this.

For the same money you could sort yourself out with a customised Tikka built to your own specs and requirements.

If they come with a factory warrenty then for what you end up with its not too bad. Always a chance of a lemon regardless of factory or smith'ed and more chance in my personal experience with a lemon from a gunsmith.

My Tikka 308 was not 3.5k but then it does not have carbon anything. If I recall it was 3k including DPT suppressor with stainless baffle, trigger job and safety mod and a new 1-8 trueflite finished at 16 inch complete with fluted bolt and barrel (not that it floats my boat but it came that way)
I was going to buy a Tikka and have all that done less the fluting, but one popped up that True Flight had already done which worked out cheaper than buying a new one and then getting all the mods I wanted and buying another suppressor.
I have had quite a few smithed guns and only 2 have been trouble free right from the get go and no issues at all. Both shot like demons, one from Alpine Precision and the other from Trueflight. We wont mention the others but all were from the same supplier.

If its what you want then well worth it but if you dont need the carbon bits then try the guys at TrueFlight. They may have one already done on the shelf

Personally to me a carbon barrel only saves weight if you were planning on running a similar profile steel barrel, you can and will save a lot of weight with a slim profile and or fluted barrel especially at only 18" as per the rifle mentioned in the o.p.
.......poor old bugger probably beginning to wish he hadn't asked but for the most part lots of healthy debate

Originally Posted by dannyb

.......poor old bugger probably beginning to wish he hadn't asked but for the most part lots of healthy debate

I don't care, nothing to lose here.