Thread: Educate me on bushpigs

I may be wrong, but I seem to remember you ended up with a Tikka Superlite?
If that's correct then you cant really have more than an inch or two taken off it as you don't want to be threading the fluted section.

Originally Posted by ChrisW

I may be wrong, but I seem to remember you ended up with a Tikka Superlite?
If that's correct then you cant really have more than an inch or two taken off it as you don't want to be threading the fluted section.

I had wondered about that as well.

Originally Posted by ChrisW

I may be wrong, but I seem to remember you ended up with a Tikka Superlite?
If that's correct then you cant really have more than an inch or two taken off it as you don't want to be threading the fluted section.

I also wondered about that, Ill just get shortened what I can. Thank you for your input mate!

Originally Posted by Been Upto

I also wondered about that, Ill just get shortened what I can. Thank you for your input mate!

If that is the case then you could look at buying another barrel. Dan Hardy sells ones new from time to time on trademe. They are taken off new rifles that he then puts his barrels on for builds. They tend to go for about $250-300 if my memory serves me right, Then you could get that cut back and still have your superlite barrel for later.

But then you have the added costs of gunsmith swapping barrels aswell.

Or just buy a whole new rifle....perfect excuse to an another to the safe hahaha

Originally Posted by ChrisW

I may be wrong, but I seem to remember you ended up with a Tikka Superlite?
If that's correct then you cant really have more than an inch or two taken off it as you don't want to be threading the fluted section.

Have had plenty of rifles with thread In the fluted section.

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Have had plenty of rifles with thread In the fluted section.

Yes you can do it but it does not make it ideal. Its good practice to keep the thread as larger dia as possible as not to reduce the wall thickness too much. If you make the thread as small as the the flutes are deep then the wall thickness remaining will be quite thin. If you thread it so that the flutes are still present then gas will escape backwards through the flutes.
I would strongly suggest that the OP does not butcher a new gun in such a way. If it was an old beater then sure - but as soon as he does that it will loose much of its value and desirability. I would never consider such a gun.

Originally Posted by ChrisW

Yes you can do it but it does not make it ideal. Its good practice to keep the thread as larger dia as possible as not to reduce the wall thickness too much. If you make the thread as small as the the flutes are deep then the wall thickness remaining will be quite thin. If you thread it so that the flutes are still present then gas will escape backwards through the flutes.
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When a fluted tikka barrel in 308 get the bush pig chop, it quite often ends up being threaded at 14x1 , i.e. the same thread as the factory tikkas comes into...