Thread: New Tikka .308 zeroing issues

Originally Posted by chainsaw

Looking at the 200 yd targets it shows a lot of holes. Did you allow time for barrel to cool down between strings? Like5 mins at least ?
Did you remove suppressor to let it and bbl cool? How many shots in a string? In summer temps things get pretty warm and take a long time to cool down. So if you shooting more than 3 or 4 shots before letting bbl and suppressor cool off you get issues.
You mention that first group at 100 yards was good, and the picture confirms that.

The other thing to check is to make sure rings, bases, and action screws have not come loose under recoil.
Be careful with factory Tikka stocks not to ever tighten the action screws or you’ll bugger up the stock and free floating recoil lug permanently. Torque to 30-35 in-lbs max.

Hey mate,

Thanks for the reply. I have a 3 round mag so was shooting in in 3 rounds strings. We were checking that and it never really got that hot, warm but not burn your hand hot. We were doing it 7-9.30pm last night so it had cooled off a bit.
I will go over all the screws, we gave the scope a check last night, but felt tight.

Thanks