There has been much discussion on barrel life, my question is: How many barrel changes / total rounds is an action and bolt good for?
My T3 sporter is a target workhorse and is halfway through its second barrel.
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There has been much discussion on barrel life, my question is: How many barrel changes / total rounds is an action and bolt good for?
My T3 sporter is a target workhorse and is halfway through its second barrel.
Sounds like you might be the man to tell us sometime soon haha
I doubt you would ever wear out a bolt action. You would just need to occasionally replace a broken extractor/firing pin and springs.
My 6.5 is halfway through its third and going strong so dont really know if you will ever wear the action out
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That is good news. Ive not really seen many custom actions about. Keen to know if anyone has ever upgraded and found any dramatic changes in accuracy
Easiest and most common way to stuff a tikka is too replace the factory barrel with a nz made CF wrapped barrel like so many seem to do......
I know a gunsmith who worked on a Tikka that was destroyed by over pressure loads. These were worked up by a supposed commercial expert who then handed the ammo and formular to an unsusspecting customer. The bolt lugs had been driven back into the reciever causing cronic headspace problems. The reciever had stress cracks and had to be junked. Would this had been an issue in another brand of firearm I don't know. I know another shooter who had the same issue to a lesser extent when a hot batch of ADI AR2209 caught him out. There was a lot of machining involved to fix things up this rifle was also a Tikka.
Yeah gotta have the hottest load around. Best gunsmith is one who understands physics. LOL.
I believe the life expectancy of a T3 in 7mm08 is directly related to the amount of Latte spilt on it while the owner strokes it.
As an aside, my ‘smith in the US has done hundreds of builds on Tikka actions. He told me that he has tested many and never found one that needed truing. His opinion is that any ‘Smith who does it is taking money for something that doesn’t need to be done.
Mine needed trueing.
I hope you dont have a business in NZ selling manufactured goods.Quote:
Originally Posted by GWH
There are way more carbon wrapped barrels that shoot than ones that dont.
Been a tall poppy in nz is never much fun
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oh shit...here we go again......handbags at five paces.....
I'm sure if you talked to the people involved it would get sorted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mauser308
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Ask the US Military on action life the Army and Marine corp armours have been rebuilding Remington 700 sniper rifles since the mid 1960's,
If the actions aren't shot with overloaded ammo and kept clean and the lugs lubed they should last a life time or two, it is the speed freaks that kill guns.
HnF in Taupo had a few of those types of guns when I was buying some glo bugs today.Quote:
Originally Posted by GWH
isn't this like "how long is a piece of string"
depends how you use your rifle.
How well you look after her..
If you load your own rounds ?
ect ect… not meaning too be a dick or anything :)
Tempted to "borrow" a Tikka action attached to a DPT stock while I was picking up my gun today at Te Rapa.LOL.
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I figured its just like a car part. Eventually it will wear out after a finite amount of shots regardless of TLC. I've heard gunsmiths are sometimes required to assess wear in the bolt carrying rails (not sure what these are actually called) so i guess i was just wondering if theres was a known round count on how long it takes to wear out a given action
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ask yourself this......that SMLE on trademe that sells for $3-400 on regular basis...has been around for close to and in some cases over a hundred years....it could well have seen use in WW2 or other conflict....its probably been used for multiple bombups here on goats or deer and yet its still going strong and will probably continue to do so for the forseeable future...now you plastic spastic T3 has some hundredish less years of wear n tear and SHOULD have benefit of much better technology in construction...much better materials and no wartime speedy corner cutting manufacturing.so should be able to last at least as long as you will.
Exactly!Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
I’ve never considered any action life was finite.
Of course, I don't know the answer to this.
You'd think a little maintenance would be needed, specially on moving parts like the trigger sear and stuff.
Does the plastic bolt shroud deteriorate with age ?
I would expect a plastic magazine to wear out.
I believe my SMLE action stretched or the bolt lugs wore a bit after about 20 years (1000 rounds). Headspace was too big and cases started separating.
It had been a target rifle so I expect the headspace was good originally.
Din Collings replaced the bolt head and built up the face with a bit of weld and I never had any more separations.
This was just maintenance in my eyes. The rifle went on for another 10 years working just as well as ever.