With mount and rings hitting here yesterday and getting my hands on some cheap ammo to get started with I went to an indoor range nearby. (Rifle Gear nice, BTW) I usually do my own bore sight, but with this ammo being at a premium I took it back to Scheels. Sales guy told me they were good at it, no charge, why not. At 25 yards, first shot this rifle ever made, I'm low. I liked it, and sent the target down to 100. I'm like .750" high, windage is still good. I had my torque wrench with me, everything still good on the rings so I sent another. Right there with it. I sent a 4th, left about 1/2". I waited 10 minutes or so and fired a 5th and final shot and it's with the group. I have some ELDX on the way, but this "cheap" stuff, may hunt some big boars between now and mule deer season. We have a set up with a dedicated hog feeder that could be a lot of fun with this. This is my 3rd Tikka, second with this identical scope and 7th Tikka rifle I have first hand knowledge of shooting like this. This is going to be a great hunting rifle.



I wish I had a pic of the target after the last shot. This ammo shot great and is a long way from the Corelok t I shot 25-30 years ago. It was the only thing I could find locally on the shelf, and to foul the barrel and put some rounds through it I wasn't too picky.

Nice! Glad you’re happy with it, I like the look of it.

Remington ammo is a Vista Outdoors brand now so quality will and has vastly improved. First thing they did was double employees.

Congrats on a nice rig. Those Ol’ pot bellied big ears are in for a rude awakening

awesome

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Cheap!?

I paid $44.00, off the shelf at rifle gear. Relatively speaking, that’s cheap.

Settled on Hornady 162 gr ELDX. I have a 100 yd zero, coming in an about 2.6" at 200 yards. This was

the 3rd what I call field test, and we're bonding nicely.

Nice rifle but it isn’t a smith and Wesson…

You can call me Dragon.

Such a shame of a group, for such a good rifle.

It'll do 1" at 200 yards.

What is the size of that 2 shot group? Knowing the Ø of the bullet holes, scale it. Or, knowing that from the center of the black dot, to the 1/2 way point between each shot was 2.6"

Help me out with this one also, muzzle velocity:
Height above bore, 1.65"
G1, .631
Temp, about 50°
Bullet weight, 162 gr.
Elevation, 2200'

You said 2.6" at 200 yards. I took that to mean 2.6" at 200 yards, center to center.

I don't know know what you're wanting help with.

I think he meant it dropped 2.6” at 200, could you determine muzzle velocity from that given the other specs.

Edit- using the BulletDrop app, I got 3000 fps.

I’m just messin’ with ya, nice rig

Myself, that's exactly what I got. I'm liking this rifle more every time I shoot it.

I have a CTR in 223 and 308. I really like the newer Tikka Models they have come out with the last 2 years, roughech, veil, and Super varmint.

It is near impossible to determine MV with only 200 yards as the only data. I nail down MV with 500 to 800 yards. And do it with Mil or MOA. Your scope is MOA.

I didn’t take the time to read the replies…

Y’all carry on and have a great Sunday.

Looks like about 0.5-.75", based on pics. Nice shooting.

I love those VX-5/6HD scopes as well.

Thanks, and I like both of my VX5-HD's as well.

With that scope, Leupold acknowledges that gravity exists, but they ignore the fact that wind exists, with that big duplex reticle. They "almost" made a really good medium range hunting scope.

And another. Shot two 3 shot groups yesterday. This rifle is settling in now with a few very high probabilities. The first shot always hits the diamond (100 yards). The second, maybe .333-.500" off, the 3rd shot as shown. I shot these two groups with no cooling between shots, and about 1 hour between groups. It was only about 105° yesterday so a couple bottles of water and some shade, a few pistols and two rimfires filled the time between groups on the 7m Rem Mag.

How I measured the group: Measure the bullet, zero the calipers, measure the group.

Save that brass!