#TIKKAT3xTACA1

Did you ever put All The Money In One Picture? Well here’s a try. The rifle is a Tikka T3x TAC A1 in 6.5 Creedmoor, in a Spuhr SICS chassis painted in a custom Snigel Grey Cerakote. The barrel is suppressed by Ase Utra with a QD mount. Balancing on top we have a Safran Vectronix PLRF25 Laser Range Finder, Pulsar Merger Thermal Binoculars and another Vectronix Terrapin X. The wind meter is from Kestrel.

The Tikka T3 rifle is manufactured by Sako in Riihimäki, Finland. The production of this series of bolt-action rifles started in 2002, some 18 years ago. It all started with a prototype T3 rifle in 2001, created by Kari Kuparinen who is now the R&D Director at Sako.

A friend of mine bought a Zero Compromise ZC527 (that means 5 to 27 power magnification) riflescope and a Spuhr mount for his Ritter & Stark 6.5 Creedmoor rifle. Before he used it himself he gave TFB the opportunity to test and review it, and the results can be found in this rather long article (2800+ words and pictures).

This is an extended review of the Schmidt & Bender 5-25×56 PMII rifle scope with the LRR-MIL reticle in a Spuhr SP-4602 mount.

Over a year ago TFB covered the Ashbury Saber M700 Precision Rifle.

There’s a “new” Tikka T3x TAC A1 around the corner. According to the (unfortunately limited) information it’s going to be everything the TAC A1 already is, apart from the Limited quantities and the BLK LBL bipod that’s integrated in the hand guard.

The discussions were finalized during the IWA exhibition in Germany, and it’s now official that Stoeger Canada Ltd. will start selling Ase Utra sound suppressors in Canada.

In some countries, the Police will not allow a firearms license for a “military looking” rifle on a hunting permit, and sometimes not even on a target shooting permit.

A new star was just born near Vienna, Austria.

Sterk Shooting from Australia is introducing a Generation 2 of their Titanium Bolt Shroud for the Tikka T3 and T3x.

I don’t like to be the bearer of bad news, especially as the doors to SHOT Show are about to open and a new year has just started.

Three holes in a paper at 100 meters. Some times these groupings come together, sometimes they don’t.

Hunters in the North Rhine-Westphalia area in Germany can now use sound suppressors for their hunting rifles. The Ministry of Interior has regulated this in a decree to the The Federal Hunting Act. 

Today’s Photo Of The Day is Short Action Precision’s Two Round Holders.

I planned this to be a Photo of the Day post, but elaborated around the different rifles and the subject so there’s a lot of more detail.