Tikka T3X- Tight Chamber

[brockel]

Does your ejector press in at all?

 

[oxn939]

Does your ejector press in at all?

It does. Don't have a gauge or anything, but seems to depress with a comparable amount of force to several other rifles I have that function fine.

Just to clarify my remark - it was not to re-torque the action screws but to use some type of light and bore scope to see if the screws are protruding ever so slightly into the action when properly torqued. If so then the solution is to grind them down a bit with a grinding wheel.

If not that - then I would rent go/no-go gauges (only $20 or so) - or take to local smith as others have suggested.

Good SA on this. Don't have a borescope, but I think go/ no go gauges are probably the next item up. Just sucks having to come out of pocket to fix something on a brand new rifle.

Send Tikka pictures and the explanation you proin your post. If you don’t get a favorable response, print the picture and print out a letter and mail it to the head of US corporate.

Think this is the plan after running a go/ no go gauge

 

[brockel]

Just surprised to see ejector marks just from chambering a round. Definitely a first for me.

 

[Sheltowee]

I'll take it off your hands for $100.

 

[VikingsGuy]

I'll take it off your hands for $100.

HuntTalk always ready to help a guy out

 

[brockel]

HuntTalk always ready to help a guy out

I’ll give him $400

 

[Forkyfinder]

Sako a7 in 308. Over 1500 rounda threw it - most ammo is well under moa.

Nosler ballistic tips and hornady superformance left ejector marks. Dont really care. No stiff bolt for me. . .

 

[brockel]

Sako a7 in 308. Over 1500 rounda threw it - most ammo is well under moa.

Nosler ballistic tips and hornady superformance left ejector marks. Dont really care. No stiff bolt for me. . .

Ejector marks on unfired case?

 

[Forkyfinder]

Ejector marks on unfired case?

Ah no. I missed that detail.

Thats wild...

 

[oxn939]

HuntTalk always ready to help a guy out

Well, nobody I know near here has a gauge and I leave for a work trip in a few days... so took her to the range with the one brand of factory stuff that does fit. Shoots like a Tikka, which is fine for my purposes.

Not the right fix, but anyone know of a brand of '06 brass that comes to mind with smaller dimensions so I can start working up a load? I know some brands tend to run larger or smaller, and I'm trying to get this thing up

 

[Forkyfinder]

Well, nobody I know near here has a gauge and I leave for a work trip in a few days... so took her to the range with the one brand of factory stuff that does fit. Shoots like a Tikka, which is fine for my purposes.

Not the right fix, but anyone know of a brand of '06 brass that comes to mind with smaller dimensions so I can start working up a load? I know some brands tend to run larger or smaller, and I'm trying to get this thing up

Possible - maybe the ammo you had was out of spec? Hard to know if its truly the rifle without gauges.

 

[VikingsGuy]

Well, nobody I know near here has a gauge and I leave for a work trip in a few days... so took her to the range with the one brand of factory stuff that does fit. Shoots like a Tikka, which is fine for my purposes.

Not the right fix, but anyone know of a brand of '06 brass that comes to mind with smaller dimensions so I can start working up a load? I know some brands tend to run larger or smaller, and I'm trying to get this thing up

FWIW - 4D Reamer Rentals rents via US Mail for $8.

 

[popeyoung12]

Send it back. My relative has a Christensen that was shipped back 3x before a factory round would close.

 

[oxn939]

Possible - maybe the ammo you had was out of spec? Hard to know if its truly the rifle without gauges.

I've tried 5 kinds of factory ammo. In 4 of 5, the bolt was tough to close and left ejector marks on unfired cases. Pretty sure it's the gun.

Don't have time to keep messing with sending it back or mailing gauges around, since I only have 5 days home between now and the hunt it'd be used on. Guess I may just dial it with the one variety of ammo that does cycle fine and go from there.

 

[brockel]

I've tried 5 kinds of factory ammo. In 4 of 5, the bolt was tough to close and left ejector marks on unfired cases. Pretty sure it's the gun.

Don't have time to keep messing with sending it back or mailing gauges around, since I only have 5 days home between now and the hunt it'd be used on. Guess I may just dial it with the one variety of ammo that does cycle fine and go from there.

How hard is it to close the bolt on the unfired cases that you are seeing ejector marks on?

 

[oxn939]

How hard is it to close the bolt on the unfired cases that you are seeing ejector marks on?

Ranges from "huh, that was kinda tight" to "&^%$ that is not right"

 

[brockel]

Have you tried removing the ejector?