Thread: Tikka T3 Modifications

Tikka T3 10 Shot Mag Conversion

A little project I'm in the middle of at the moment is fitting an after market 10 shot mag conversion kit to my new toy - Tikka T3 Lite in 308

I purchased two different brands of 10 shot mag conversion kits via the interweb, they arrived in the post within a day or so of one another, I spent a week or so deciding which one I would use, weighed each one but decided to use the heavier one with the original AI 10 shot mags, by memory it was 28 grams heavier with the mag installed. Chose this as the mags basically fitted better etc. The lighter conversion kit had copy AI mags and the mags weren't that good at being interchanged with the bottom plates.

Next step was to purchase the rifle, looked around but in the end just stuck with Reloaders, just walked in and purchased the rifle. Flat stick at work so didn't have a chance pulling it apart for a couple weeks. Previous to this the only thing I had disassembled/assembled on a rifle have been rifle scopes and the like.
Had the rifle apart in a couple of minutes, thought this was easy so started to file the inside of the stock to fit the bottom plate kit, wasn't long before I realised this was a waste of time so next day dropped it of to a machine shop to get milled out, doesn't require a lot of material to be removed, basically more of an issue in clamping the stock without marking it.

Picked it up this morning so here's a few pics of it before I re-assemble it. You can just make out how much material was removed to allow the after market bottom plate to be installed.