I would like to hear options to lighten up the hard arse kick my .270 is giving me. I'm interested in learning every option known so that I don't get kicked every time I pull the trigger.

Better recoil pad

stock that fits you better and weighs more

proper form

reduced loads

muzzlebreak

It's simple. Reduce the recoil with the rifle, like by adding a muzzle brake, recoil pad. Or reduce the recoil by reducing the power of the ammo. To reduce recoil with the ammo, you have to reduce the bullet weight and the speed. I have loaded a bunch of 100 and 130 grain Hornady SP bullets for reduced loads that work well. They still work on critters very well. It will reduce felt recoil by about 40%-50%.

If shooting over the bench raise the rifle up until your upper body is upright. Tucking down and forward on the bench will cause more felt recoil.

Recoil pad with proper pitch and length of pull. Imo most factory bolt guns are too short.

More weight

Reduced load.

I'd start with the cheapest option, a Limbsaver recoil pad. Afte that I'd look into a muzzle break.

++1 on the Limbsaver; it works!!

Muzzle BRAKE, not break! Brake is to slow things down, and a break is a smoke break or break something in half.

Haven't seen lighter bullets, if your shooting 150 gr, a drop to 130 gr will go a long way towards taming recoil.

My smartphone swears it's break. You tell it that it's wrong, lol

Thought most Tikkas were pencil barrels so can't be threaded unless you used an adapter.

It cant be that bad

LOL! Sometimes smart phones aren't all that smart. I tell my wife this when she follows her mapping app EXACTLY what it says, and it takes her all over town out of the way. Crazy!

I gotta get a brake on my '06 T3.

But I got a good price break on my 7mm!

Replacing the factory recoil pad with a limbsaver pad is an absolute necessity on the Tikka T3's! Reduced recoil ammo is nice in addition to the pad.

T3 are great , but they will let you know you're shooting a gun

Purse... Drop it

Having owned and currently owning several Tikkas, they will make a .243 feel out of proportion to its usual recoil impulse associated with the caliber in its factory tubbaware and sense rubber pad configuration. Limbsaver pads help significantly, but what improved it more so was replacing the entire stock with a Bell and Carlson Medalist for around $200 when they go on sale at redhawkrifles.com. I have both a T3 lite and a T3 CTR in B&C stocks and they feel like different guns in the upgraded stocks.

I agree I have a tikka 300 wsm it's the hardest kicking gun we have and when I'm full of adrenaline I can't feel a thing. But if it's for target shooting I recommend a Caldwell leadsledyou can't feel recoil at all. Those things work great!!!!!!

Can't thread them for a 5/8" brake. But there are brakes that are 1/2" and 9/16". You can put a brake on most barrels. We put one on a friend's T-3 chambered in .300 Win Mag. My smith tapered down the rear of the brake to marry nicely to the muzzle. Load a 7 pound 300 Win Mag with a 210 Berger and 77.0 of H-1000. It's peppy!

Yes you can easily brake the tikka! My wife's go to rifle is A tikka t3 300 winmag running 180 grain loads and no it's not braked! Shes a small framed woman and she shoots it very accurately! I think i would get a smaller caliber then brake something! Hate the extra blast and noise of brakes.

how's the accuracy of the T3 270. I'm looking real hard at one.

APA micro bastard, simple and very effective