Tikka T3 in 6br??

[diggler44]

Well needless to say ever since i first fired the 6br and dasher i have been in love with there inherent accuracy and virtually zero elevation shift shot to shot. I thought to myself what better place to find out if anybody had tried this than 6mmbr.com.

So recently i tried feeding some leftover 6 dasher rounds through my tikka 308 mags and it seemed to work quite well. in fact it had zero misfeeds. I am planning on rebarreling my tikka to 6br 7.7 twist to see how it really performs. This won't be a dedicated match rifle so if it isn't 100% i am not to worried. I do plan on slaying some pdogs with it though this spring.

Has anybody tried this or have any insight as to why this may be a good/bad idea. My thought has been that since the mags are short and single stack that the tikka 5rd 308 mags may just be the best solution available to finally make the 6br a repeater without any modifications.

 

[NO-GO]

interesting, I have been thinking same thing. looked at a used t-3 22-250 last week and mag looks as if it will work. I just traded for rem. 788 22-250 to use for 6 br but it is as new and I shot a .640 5 shot group with it and hate to take it apart. I hope someone has info on tikka, I would like to try it. Sako 75 in 22-250 w/6ppc mag is supposed to work well for 6br. maybe tikka 595 in 22-250 would work also.

 

[Forum Boss]

With the previous Tikka 595, 6BR rounds fed very reliably with the 22-250 magazine -- but those mags were hard to find. I haven't tried a T3 with a 22-250 mag (don't know the dimensions), but we did experiment with a .308 Win magazine version and 6BR rounds didn't work so great. I'd call Beretta/Tikka and find out how the 22-250 mag differs from the .308 Win mag.

 

[diggler44]

The t3 uses same magazine on all short action calibers. Did you try it with heavy bullets?

 

[BigDMT]

I don't see why not? Even if you do get a mis-feed on a round here and there, big deal. It doesn't need to be 100% reliable to shoot prairie dogs

 

[bozo699]

I can feed 6BRX reliably on my T3 light 7mm-08 and decided a year ago my next new pack around rifle was going to be a T3 rebarreled in 6brx, Since Paul already tried the 22-250 and it's mags worked well I probably will buy one of those, if it shoots as well as my other Tikka's I will take it to Montana and burn the 22-250 barrel up on ground hogs in a weekend then pull it and put the new 1:8 Brux on it and shoot 105 vlds at ground pigs wayyyyy out there.
Wayne.

 

[BigDMT]

I can feed 6BRX reliably on my T3 light 7mm-08 and decided a year ago my next new pack around rifle was going to be a T3 rebarreled in 6brx, Since Paul already tried the 22-250 and it's mags worked well I probably will buy one of those, if it shoots as well as my other Tikka's I will take it to Montana and burn the 22-250 barrel up on ground hogs in a weekend then pull it and put the new 1:8 Brux on it and shoot 105 vlds at ground pigs wayyyyy out there.
Wayne.

Ground hogs and ground pigs??? What are those and where do you find them in Montana? We do however have ground squirrels, tree squirrels, gophers, and prairie dogs galore!

 

[bozo699]

I can feed 6BRX reliably on my T3 light 7mm-08 and decided a year ago my next new pack around rifle was going to be a T3 rebarreled in 6brx, Since Paul already tried the 22-250 and it's mags worked well I probably will buy one of those, if it shoots as well as my other Tikka's I will take it to Montana and burn the 22-250 barrel up on ground hogs in a weekend then pull it and put the new 1:8 Brux on it and shoot 105 vlds at ground pigs wayyyyy out there.
Wayne.

Ground hogs and ground pigs??? What are those and where do you find them in Montana? We do however have ground squirrels, tree squirrels, gophers, and prairie dogs galore!

Brandon,
Everything you mentioned to me is a ground pig,..ground-hog whatever, if there little to coyote sized there Vermin and and I am the exterminator!
Wayne.

 

[BigDMT]

I can feed 6BRX reliably on my T3 light 7mm-08 and decided a year ago my next new pack around rifle was going to be a T3 rebarreled in 6brx, Since Paul already tried the 22-250 and it's mags worked well I probably will buy one of those, if it shoots as well as my other Tikka's I will take it to Montana and burn the 22-250 barrel up on ground hogs in a weekend then pull it and put the new 1:8 Brux on it and shoot 105 vlds at ground pigs wayyyyy out there.
Wayne.

Ground hogs and ground pigs??? What are those and where do you find them in Montana? We do however have ground squirrels, tree squirrels, gophers, and prairie dogs galore!

Brandon,
Everything you mentioned to me is a ground pig,..ground-hog whatever, if there little to coyote sized there Vermin and and I am the exterminator!
Wayne.

Lol. I hear ya nothin much more fun than that. Just funny hearing what "out-of-staters" call our critters

 

[bozo699]

I am not completely a out of stater I lived in Superior for almost a year once why building roads and I live in Montana at least one weekend a month 6 months out of the year.
Wayne.

 

[BigDMT]

I am not completely a out of stater I lived in Superior for almost a year once why building roads and I live in Montana at least one weekend a month 6 months out of the year.
Wayne.

That's still falls under the guidelines of an "illegal alien" 'round here

 

[bozo699]

I am not completely a out of stater I lived in Superior for almost a year once why building roads and I live in Montana at least one weekend a month 6 months out of the year.
Wayne.

That's still falls under the guidelines of an "illegal alien" 'round here

I don't think so! it's just Montana all really great things come from Texas anyway :
Wayne.

 

[BigDMT]

I am not completely a out of stater I lived in Superior for almost a year once why building roads and I live in Montana at least one weekend a month 6 months out of the year.
Wayne.

That's still falls under the guidelines of an "illegal alien" 'round here

I don't think so! it's just Montana all really great things come from Texas anyway :
Wayne.

Themz right there is fightin' words boy! lol

 

[bozo699]

You gonna be ready for the march shoot Brandon? I will bring some vermin rigs over and show you left wing Missoula boys how to shoot long range ground pigs I will try to have my tikka t3 6brx done and maybe really show off You know I am just joshing I have made some really good friends over there.
Wayne.

 

[diggler44]

Well got a little off topic but at least it is looking promising

 

[bozo699]

Well got a little off topic but at least it is looking promising

diggler,
Sorry we got off topic,.. Brandon and I get goofing off a little sometimes yes I think it is do able so much in fact like I said as soon as I get my new bench rifle built I am buying another t3 light and building a 6brx or 6brdx on it and I am totally confident it will work.
Wayne.

 

[bozo699]

I think the main reason I believe it will work is it has a inline magazine so it isn't staggered.

 

[diggler44]

No worries just flipping you shit

 

[Judd]

Couple things worth noting that would've saved me or my smith some heartache had I known going in. I found a smoking deal on a T3 338 Fed so I bought it just for the action and decided to turn it into a 6.5x47. I already have a 6BR in a Rem action. Anyway, I got side tracked a little.

1. Their actions are metric threaded so you need to know a smith that can do metric threads. Evidently, there is an attachment or something different, regarding the lathe, that one smith didn't have that I spoke with?
2. The action is 1.2 and not 1.25. My smith is going to machine the barrel I bought so it will work but just something else I had to pay for.
3. The face of the action has a funny cut/angle on it that my smith said he felt it would look funny so he machined it square for a better looking marriage between it and the barrel.
4. To my knowledge no one is bushing that firing pin, so my smith did a custom bushing job. Which will work fine, he does great work and is far more anal that me.
5. Not sure yet because it isn't done but there are not many trigger options for a good benchrest trigger. Again the smith is going to play with this but I may end up having to buy (going from memory) a JARD which is higher than the other more popular Remington brand.

So after all this is done I'm really thinking I'm going to have wished I bought a BAT, Stiller, neiska, Etc and been done with it.

But I'll have something unique and I like that. So we'll see...next build will probably be a custom though.

Good luck!

 

[bozo699]

Couple things worth noting that would've saved me or my smith some heartache had I known going in. I found a smoking deal on a T3 338 Fed so I bought it just for the action and decided to turn it into a 6.5x47. I already have a 6BR in a Rem action. Anyway, I got side tracked a little.

1. Their actions are metric threaded so you need to know a smith that can do metric threads. Evidently, there is an attachment or something different, regarding the lathe, that one smith didn't have that I spoke with?
2. The action is 1.2 and not 1.25. My smith is going to machine the barrel I bought so it will work but just something else I had to pay for.
3. The face of the action has a funny cut/angle on it that my smith said he felt it would look funny so he machined it square for a better looking marriage between it and the barrel.
4. To my knowledge no one is bushing that firing pin, so my smith did a custom bushing job. Which will work fine, he does great work and is far more anal that me.
5. Not sure yet because it isn't done but there are not many trigger options for a good benchrest trigger. Again the smith is going to play with this but I may end up having to buy (going from memory) a JARD which is higher than the other more popular Remington brand.

So after all this is done I'm really thinking I'm going to have wished I bought a BAT, Stiller, neiska, Etc and been done with it.

But I'll have something unique and I like that. So we'll see...next build will probably be a custom though.

Good luck!

Judd,
I use three different smiths from time to time and any of the three can do metric, I am surprised yours didn't have the stuff to do it. If your trying to build a bench rest rifle then by all means a Tikka is not the way to go but for a pack around varmint rifle they will be perfect for that, there trigger is good down to 2 lbs. from the factory and it feels pretty good at that, I suppose a smith coulds stone it down from there, my only issue with the Tikka is there plastic stock and a good one for it is not cheap and there isn't many to choose from as a matter of a fact I only know of one. With all that said all of mine will shoot under 1/2 minute 3 shot group right out of the box with no mods if there barrels were't so tapered I would just re chamber a .243 1:10 into a 6brx but I don't think there is enough meat there.
Wayne
P.S where did you find this Jard trigger? how much and how low will it safely go?