new gun - tikka + ZIESS

[splitshot]

  i luv my tikka 243 but when i went muzzy my granddaughter snagged it.  wish tikka made muzzys.   why did they not make them in the 50's and 60's?   mike w

[KFhunter]

www.opticsplanet.com pissed me off - ordered a vortex and mount from them then got an email saying it'd be 7 weeks 

So now I'm looking for a different scope 

got an old trophy ridge junker on it now 

[Shooter]

7 weeks isn't long, you will have plenty of time at the range before hunting season. ElkNut was great in helping me with my Vortex binocular purchase, maybe he can save you a few bucks and get it sooner. The Vortex seemed to be a good match for the Tikka, patience is a virtue and most times it pays off.

If you want to step up and go big and buy a scope you will never regret by a Leupold VX6 with CDS,  mount a rail on that Tikka and other rifles and get custom dials made for each, Leupold makes some quick detach options that makes it easy to use one great scope for multiple rifles, in the long run you will have great glass and spend less.

[dscubame]

Sweet

[KFhunter]

I probably over scoped it 

[carpsniperg2]

I have a vx3 Lr 6.5-20x40 on one of mine Never hurts to run good glass.

[KFhunter]

I'm prolly going to go with burris XTR rings and weaver bases.   I want a pictanny top so I can put on a nightfire or other light.

farmer wanting me to kill some yotes, but he's got them so trained I think night shooting is going to be the ticket.

[elkinrutdrivemenuts]

With that scope you can't miss, best bang for your buck IMHO.

[KFhunter]

ya - I'm a little leery of the 4.5 power but I figure with the 50mm objective at least I'll still have a decent FOV.

It was the smallest one they had with target turrets.

[skagitsteel]

I have that gun in 30-06, nice, light, for the most part very accurate (having some accuracy trouble lately but usually is a sub moa gun.)

[KFhunter]

whats your favorite factory ammo for it?

I want this gun to eat factory loads for out of state hunting,  hoping it's good with Remington core lokt 180gr out to 300 yards but also hoping maybe I can punch that out a ways with hornady superformance 165gr.



This gun won't see handloads.  Idea is to ship it to myself then grab a box of ammo off the shelf somewhere. 

[KFhunter]

finally got it all put together and ran a few down the tube.

I sure like that glass, at 300 yards with shoot n see targets you can clearly see where you hit.  Nice and crisp.

I ran some old remington core lokt 150 to walk in the scope - shoot, clean, shoot, clean shoot and clean some more.  I zero'd it at 75 yards.  I don't have my range setup so was just shooting the bank and 75 yards was all I could get at that spot 

Then I set up a 300 yard target.

was zero'd at 75 so held the top of the paper - and hit 1 inch low.


Well shooting from a rickety old picnic table the gun was pulling 3" groups @ 300 with winchester silvertip 180gr.   The gun will run better but I just couldn't keep it still.   Haven't had a chance to run much else through it yet but I think I'm gonna like it. 



I'll dig out the bags and really see what it'll do.

[coachcw]

Hornafy super performance is tough to beat . I 'd go with the 165 sst's

[KFhunter]

Hornafy super performance is tough to beat . I 'd go with the 165 sst's

That is my plan, just need to pick some up