Thread: Custom Actions: Recommendations?

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Tikka Tolerances / Slop
05/08/2015
How do the Tikka actions compare to other non-custom manufactured actions?

"Blueprinting" is one of the first recommendations that many gunsmiths offer clients with Remington actions. Would you make the same advice to a client with a Tikka?

How much slop does one see with a Tikka generally?



LongRiflesInc
Re: Tikka Tolerances / Slop
05/08/2015
First, we've done a whole bunch of these as full builds and barreled actions. This "slop" thing that gets everyone so constipated, needs to die a slow painful death. It's internet poison and all it does is peel dollars from your wallet from horse shit sales tactics. You are ultimately left to suffer as a consumer/enthusiast. The GS's who advocate this will later tell you he can only coat "half" of your action otherwise the bolt won't run. -do you paint a car and leave the door jams in bare steel? Next, your bolt won't work when it gets dirty. . . blah, blah, blah. We've all seen it, yet few seem willing to confront it.



All in the name of precision right? How gay is that? A gun that doesn't work unless the planets align and you pack your cleaning kit everywhere you go to enjoy your hobby?



There is nothing wrong with Tikka actions other than the factory barrels are torqued to absurd levels. In 15+ years I've yet to see where this ultra tight "tolerance" bolt thing makes one shit of difference on a target. The BR guys seem to swear by it. These are the same guys that shoot "oversquare" 6mm's with 18" barrels resembling tractor axles at 300 yards and under from setups void of almost all human interaction. I've seen hundreds of people offer all kinds of engineering term riddled theory, conjecture, and opinion. Nobody that I'm aware of has sat down and conclusively proven any of it. -and by that I mean going out and purchasing a broad menu of rifles chambered in an equally broad variety of cartridges with the full spectrum of barrel contours, lengths, throat lengths, neck ID's, etc. . .

Nobody.

Now wouldn't that be something to see.

It's apples and onions in the world the rest of us participate in.

Bottom line, pick your barrel and chamber. Have it fitted up by someone who understands realistic/practical accurate gunmaking and go shoot the daylights out of it. The Tikka is a really good piece and comes out of the box with a number of features that will cost you extra on other actions.



Good luck!



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Chad Dixon
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