baldie Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 This is quite a heavy barrelled tikka. The brief was to build a tactical tikka in .223 with a heavy parallel barrel at 20" It started life as a new sporter weight T3 lite, and I did bad things to it.... Barrel is a border Archer parallel, at 20" and screwcut 18mm x 1 and an invisible thread cap. This allows the ASE jet-Z to be used. Action has one of the Australian bolt knob conversions and alloy shroud fitted. The stock is a Robertson tactical that i have resprayed from the black granite original finish, to a copy of a McMillan marbled OD green and black. There,s a moral in there somewhere IE buy the best stock in the first place, a mcmillan. The quality of Robertsons in my opinion, is not as good.The stock/action was pillar and devcon bedded too. Flush cups were added to the stock with a liberal helping of stainless devcon, and it was also fitted with a bottom metal conversion, and one of my AICS converted magazines for .223. Then the entire barrelled action, bolt and shroud was painted in Armour Black Ceracoat " H " If i,m honest, i did not want to give this one back, i absolutely loved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brown dog Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Dave, that looks bloomin stunning! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannywayoflife Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Oh baby!!! That's awesome! That's pretty much what I want to do with my tikka! Dave the aics mag is that a converted 308 mag? If so why use that as opposed to the 223 specific ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baldie Posted June 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 The .223 plastic ones are too fat to enter the tikka,s magazine slot in the action Danny. Some people shave down the feed lips on a plastic mag, but its not satisfactory in my opinion. This converted magazine holds 15 or 16 rounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannywayoflife Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Will your converted mags fit any after Market bottom metal or just yours? I think I'm going to get one of the A5 clone stocks from joewest and pretty much duplicate what you've done there Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elwood Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baldie Posted June 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Will your converted mags fit any after Market bottom metal or just yours? I think I'm going to get one of the A5 clone stocks from joewest and pretty much duplicate what you've done there Dave. They will fit any quality DBM that accepts AICS mags . Beware of the sheeite sold on ebay. I had a customer bring one in to be fitted. The holes were out, and some of the angles were wrong. Plus it had an aluminium lever.....utter junk....i refused to fit it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannywayoflife Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Dave I've been looking at the cdi one. Although it might just be easier to drop the rifle and stock to you when I've got them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannywayoflife Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Dave can you dura goat laminate stocks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrelsniffer Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Very Nice Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tikkajohn Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 my god thats a beaut, has give me an itch for something similar in 6.5x47 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baldie Posted June 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 I keep the CDI unit in stock Danny, and yes, laminates duracoat perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannywayoflife Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Awesome Dave thanks for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Very, very nice rifle there Dave.........again. If you do that to Danny's rifle he better watch out next time we're foxing, I may walk off with it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashcroft Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 sweet makes me think why o why did a buy a used super varmint in .308 and not just save up more and pay you a visit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
22-250jock Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 you've done it again dave, lovely looking beast......p.s. alot better than SNOWY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyhunter Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 She's a stunner Dave, top job. What kind of weight is the rifle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggersqueezer Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 dave you built my dream ,i put a few rounds down her tonight and she's a beauty to shoot.its nice to be sat here perving at my own rifle for a change.can't thank you enough pal.will keep you posted on how she shoots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baldie Posted June 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 My pleasure entirely Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannywayoflife Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 What twist barrel did you opt for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batleyhunter Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Dave youve built a great looking foxing rifle there mate who ever youve built it for should be well chuffed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggersqueezer Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Dave youve built a great looking foxing rifle there mate who ever youve built it for should be well chuffed. me and i am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batleyhunter Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Its a really nice rifle there triggersqueezer :-P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggersqueezer Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Its a really nice rifle there triggersqueezer :-P cheers pal,no sleep for me tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggersqueezer Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 What twist barrel did you opt for? 1 in 8 pal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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