7mm Rem Mag making me Happy!

[HuntClub]

I posted some time back about a bad hunting experience with a new scope that had exposed turrets. I learned a lesson that still stings. Missed a very large buck - the largest I would have ever had a chance to take for sure. Anyway, started from scratch. Took the Boyd's stock off and put on OEM T3 stock. I did some camouflage on it myself and was pretty happy with it, so it was given a chance to prove its worth. Then, a new Z3 4x12 as my new scope. Have been having trouble getting the grouping previously achieved... until today.

Verified the load with 3 loaded with new brass and 3 shots load with 1 time fired brass. Rifle is a Tikka T3, bullets 140 TTSX, powder 4831sc. 1x brass gave me about 30 fps faster speed. I am extremely happy to have found my load with the T3 stock. Picture of rifle and today's target.

Oh, if anyone would like to pack me in on an elk hunt - someone already paid and cancelled - and don't want their money back :O this fellow in Florida would love to go!

 

[three percent]

Very nice camo job.ive never heard of a Tikka rifle that didn't shoot very well.glad you got happy with it
Kida strange you'll here it about sako rifles sometimes but not tikkas

 

[searcher]

Yeah!!! Those Barnes TTSX's shoot great in my 7 MM Rem Mag as well (BAT Magnum action w/Krieger barrel). I have tried the 120's, 140's and 150's - all shot spectacularly once the right powder was found for each. Mine shoots best with Reloader 22 with those bullets, though IMR7977 was a respectable second place. In my rifle, these shot considerably better than the other eight powders tried, including 4831 SC. Always pays to keep going when you think a rifle will do better. While it wasn't necessarily the case with this rifle - most calibers I have worked up loads for with the Barnes actually shoot pretty well using Barne's suggested loads. I seldom have that experience with other loading manuals. They do their homework, obviously using multiple rifles to test. Nice Tikka!