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Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270

Posted By: B-Man

Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/11/15 06:41 PM

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.
Posted By: redchevy

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/11/15 06:42 PM

Better recoil pad

stock that fits you better and weighs more

proper form

reduced loads

muzzlebreak
Posted By: ChadTRG42

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/11/15 06:45 PM

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%.
Posted By: TDK

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/11/15 07:05 PM

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.
Posted By: BigPig

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/11/15 07:09 PM

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

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/11/15 07:14 PM

++1 on the Limbsaver; it works!!
Posted By: QuitShootinYoungBucks

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/11/15 07:56 PM

Originally Posted By: pertnear
++1 on the Limbsaver; it works!!
Posted By: ChadTRG42

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/11/15 08:57 PM

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

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/11/15 09:00 PM

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

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/11/15 09:19 PM

Originally Posted By: ChadTRG42
Muzzle BRAKE, not break! Brake is to slow things down, and a break is a smoke break or break something in half.


My smartphone swears it's break. You tell it that it's wrong, lol
Posted By: Dien

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/11/15 09:40 PM

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

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/11/15 09:44 PM

It cant be that bad
Posted By: ChadTRG42

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/11/15 09:50 PM

Originally Posted By: BigPig
Originally Posted By: ChadTRG42
Muzzle BRAKE, not break! Brake is to slow things down, and a break is a smoke break or break something in half.


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


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!
Posted By: tth_40

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/11/15 10:25 PM

I gotta get a brake on my '06 T3.
Posted By: Marc K

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/11/15 11:10 PM

But I got a good price break on my 7mm!
Posted By: hermano W

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/12/15 02:16 AM

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.
Posted By: Brother in-law

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/12/15 02:56 AM

T3 are great , but they will let you know you're shooting a gun
Posted By: Navasot

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/12/15 03:02 AM

Purse... Drop it
Posted By: JThoele

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/12/15 11:45 AM

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.
Posted By: Aggieman775

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/12/15 02:11 PM

Originally Posted By: Navasot
It cant be that bad

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!!!!!!
Posted By: redchevy

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/12/15 02:18 PM

Originally Posted By: Navasot
Purse... Drop it


roflmao
Posted By: J.G.

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/12/15 02:33 PM

Originally Posted By: Dien
Thought most Tikkas were pencil barrels so can't be threaded unless you used an adapter.


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!
Posted By: huntandfish

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/12/15 03:23 PM

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.
Posted By: bbass

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/12/15 09:04 PM

how's the accuracy of the T3 270. I'm looking real hard at one.
Posted By: SingleShot85

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/12/15 09:34 PM

APA micro bastard, simple and very effective
Posted By: Beckett

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/12/15 10:20 PM

I have a 1970's Remington 700 ADL that kicks like a mule also. Here are some of the loads I've shot:

Remington 100 gr PSP - At 3300 FPS it basically decapitates a Whitetail if you shoot em in the neck. One of my favorite quotes from my dad came after I hung up some deer I shot with this ammo. He walked around the deer and said "What the hell are you shooting them with, a cannon?" Mild recoil.

Remington Managed Recoil 115 gr Core-Lokt PSP - Mild Recoil

Hornady Custom Lite 120 gr SST - Never shot ammo, this but it's marketed as a reduced recoil load.
Posted By: turbotj

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/13/15 01:16 AM

The Bell & Carlson (5.5oz adder) stock comes with a nice recoil pad, will change your life and still maintain a fairly light weight easy handling rifle.
Posted By: cheetah577

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/13/15 03:08 AM

Originally Posted By: turbotj
The Bell & Carlson (5.5oz adder) stock comes with a nice recoil pad, will change your life and still maintain a fairly light weight easy handling rifle.


This +1
I changed the stock on all three of my Tikkas. Made a great gun even better!
Posted By: Rifleman1775

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/15/15 04:06 PM

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


not enough to be noticeable.
Posted By: MWTX270

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/15/15 04:44 PM

They are called Brakes, cause they brake your ear drums. I will never have another gun, with a muzzle brake.
Posted By: centxhunter

Re: Lightening up the kick in my tikka .270 - 11/16/15 08:44 PM

I just bought a Tikka T3 7mag from Cabelas and shipped it to Hill Country Rifles and they installed a muzzle brake on it for me.
I haven't shot it yet but hoping it's about like a 243 recoil.
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