Thread: Browning X-bolt vs Tikka T3

Originally Posted by caberslash

The T3 has a lower bolt lift than most two lug bolt actions due to the angled cut of the locking lug abutments. Do you own and use all those calibres/chamberings that you have listed? I do (bar 6.5 Creedmoor, but that will change soon), and don't agree with your assessments. Reads like a Google copy-paste job.
@BullsOnParade , I'd sugguest you go down to the local gunshop and look at ammunition avaiability and prices. No point getting something that other blokes tell you is great but ammo is either impossible to find or mega expensive. Reloading is a large time and resource sink (if you think finding loaded ammo is hard/expensive... try doing that for primers/powder/projectiles).

I work in a gun shop, and yes I do own all those calibers bar the 7 rem mag. Tikka t3x has a 70 degree bolt lift vs 60 degree for the x bolt. I’m not sure why you’re comparing the t3x to other 2 lug bolt systems? He asked about t3x vs x bolt. I find it somewhat ironic you advise him to go ask the local gun shop what has available ammo as you type from Scotland after he just got an answer from someone who works in a local gun shop I’m not going to lose sleep over you not agreeing with my assessment, I will have a laugh and tell the story at work though.