This rifle, my third Tikka T3 Lite, held no surprises. This one is chambered in .270 and is their stainless steel version. It weighs in at 7lbs. 1oz. wearing a silver finished Simmons Prohunter 3-9x40 scope mounted using a DNZ Products Game Reaper mount. With the addition of 3 rounds and it's magazine, it brings that weight up to 7lbs. 5 ozs. I chose the Simmons Prohunter because I had one, a 6X42, on my Winchester Mod. 70 in 7mmWSM and it held up well to the recoil of that cartridge while having very good optics and their Hydroshield coating for rain. Simmons has definitely made a good effort to improve their product line. I loaded 20 rounds using a load suggested in Lyman's manual, 130gr. Sierra Gameking bullet over 58.0gr. of H4831SC. That load should produce around 3000FPS from this rifle's 22 7/16" barrel. After bore sighting the scope, I fired 4 rounds at 50 yards to set up the scope and then fired another two at 100 yards to get the rifle shooting 2" high at 100 yards. I fired one 3 shot group at 100 yards and it measured .79" with 2 shots in one hole and the third shot taking the group out to that .79". I believe it may have shot better had I not pulled that last shot, but as usual I'm very happy with these Tikka rifles and their accuracy. When I got home from the range I cleaned the barrel and loaded another 40 rounds using the same load.
Don
