The Tikka T3X’s bolt is the same two lug design as the previous T3 and it also has the same 70° bolt throw. The wonderful thing about that too is that the shooter can also replace the bolt handle and bolt knob with one that has a different shape or angle to suit them. Simply turn the bolt shroud clockwise to pop the bolt shroud off, use a small wrench to pull back on the cocking piece while rotating it up onto the small flat, and pull the bolt handle off. As I pleasantly found out, Tikka’s bolts are incredibly easy to disassemble with very little in the way of tools needed.
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Tikka also provides what was once a common upgrade many consumers made, which is a metallic bolt shroud, although the rest of the bolt assembly appears to still be the same. Upgrades to the action itself include enlarging the ejection port so that a shooter can more easily drop in a round for single feeding. It’s nice to see that Tikka has taken care of that step for the consumer. While I’ve never personally witnessed it I was told that the aluminum recoil lugs could deform over time and many T3 shooters swapped it out for a steel lug as easy upgrade to the T3. Tikka also started using a steel recoil lug inside the stock as opposed to the aluminum lug that was used on the T3 rifles.
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This just isn’t the case with the Tikka’s stock it took some effort to get the stock to flex enough to touch the free floated barrel way more then what you’d see using a bipod.
A chief criticism of many OEM stocks is that they are just too flexible, especially when using a bipod, which can cause the accuracy to suffer. Although this stock is made from a hard plastic, it’s not exactly a low-quality piece that is best just done away with shortly after you buy it. The stock was further refined with a softer recoil pad and a foam-filled buttstock to cut down on noise and vibration. Tikka improved the stock with new texturing on the pistol grip and forend, along with an innovative pistol grip that could be swapped out for a more vertical grip if so desired. When redesigning the rifle Tikka focused on areas that customers had complained about previously or had other companies provide modifications for. The Tikka T3X is more or less an upgraded version of the original T3 rifle. Well, that turned out to be partially true as it eventually came out that the T3 was being usurped by the Tikka T3X. The Tikka T3 did well but in 2015 there were rumors that Tikka T3 was going to be discontinued and totally new rifle released in its stead. Tikka then became more or less a value brand under SAKO’s umbrella and started to sell the Tikka T3 as a competitor to the venerable Remington 700. Skip ahead to 1983 and SAKO, another Finnish arms company well known for making top end hunting and tactical rifles, merged with Tikka. The Tikka story starts out 123 years ago when Tikkakoski was opened as a metal shop in 1893 and in 1918 it started to manufacture firearms components.
All the while this Finnish arms company can get overlooked in the US market and it’s a real shame. Older gun stores will tend to stick with what they know and big box stores will stick with what sells. SPECSĪs I alluded to before, in some parts of the country Tikka is an unknown or unfamiliar brand. The bolt of the Tikka T3X is very easy to disassemble for maintenance and cleaning.
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