hunter24605
Handloader
- Apr 30, 2016
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My buddy "LR" had a Tikka with a beat up old stock. It shot great, but looked pretty janky. I thought the rifle had plenty of character and told it tells through scars, and that he should just leave it alone, but He ordered a Boyds Prairie Hunter stock and had the checkering and engraving done and had a limbsaver fitted. We pretty much just dropped in the action and torque the screws...Aside from moving the POI to the right, it doesn't appear to have messed with accuracy..He always shoots Federal Prem Vital Shock NBT, so that's what we took with us to test fire after the stock swap..It's pretty, and it shoots as good as it ever did, but the old war horse just isn't the same to me. But it's not mine and I'm glad he's happy it, and he has a rifle to be proud of.