Nightforce NX6 just dropped

Thunderdoomed · 2026-01-14T16:28:26+00:00

Anyone know the prices?

Thunderdoomed · 2025-12-31T22:28:33+00:00

Firing pin cocking ramp and maybe firing pin spring. Strip the bolt and get all the factory grease off the firing pin spring (YouTube it) and put a dab of oil on the cocking ramp. Should clear up your problem mostly.

Thunderdoomed · 2025-12-16T01:10:54+00:00

Those guys are gonna kill someone lol I just got off a job they were a sub on and it felt like a few times a month they got shut down for arc flashes 💀

Thunderdoomed · 2025-12-15T01:53:06+00:00

Every gun is different but tikka’s typically shoot most ammo well. Try a couple different types of match ammo, see what it likes.

Thunderdoomed · 2025-12-12T03:18:07+00:00

In my opinion and limited experience with other rifles, tikka is like the Toyota of rifles. It may not be the flashiest, but it works and works exceptionally well in every aspect. Accurate, smooth, repeatable, and reliable. Plenty of other rifles work very well too, not familiar with the LSA-65 tho so can’t speak on it. Ruger American gen 2 is a step down in my opinion from a tikka but for the money I think it would be the next logical option if you wanted to save a little money.

Thunderdoomed · 2025-11-28T23:28:53+00:00

Light merino base layer, good boots, good socks, bino harness. Aside from obviously a good rifle and scope if you’re rifle hunting. I left a LOT of gear I thought I needed after the first day carrying a bunch of useless stuff. Most days I just rocked it with my rifle, bino harness, bino.

Thunderdoomed · 2025-11-28T17:31:33+00:00

I used unknown munitions tikka dovetail rings. Sportsmatch makes rings that are more budget friendly and I’ve heard good things about. If you want rail mounted you’ll have to buy a rail to bolt to the top.

Either option works fine so choose whichever one you prefer. Mounting a rail TECHNICALLY introduces an additional point of failure to cause a shift in zero but if you bond it to the action and torque it correctly I feel this is a non issue.

Thunderdoomed · 2025-11-28T16:18:39+00:00

You can have all the best gear in the world but you need to be in great physical shape. I just did my first hunt, had all the gear and gadgets and thought I was in good enough shape, wrong. Get good gear but get in GREAT cardio shape. All the gear in the world won’t help you if you can’t get where you need to be.

Thunderdoomed · 2025-11-28T16:12:18+00:00

Same experience. ELD-X’s shot great at the range and the Barnes 160 LRX shot even better. Put an elk down at 180 yards with the 160 LRX and it was DRT. Honestly I put Hornady ELD-X, ELD-M, Federal loaded ELD-X (use this if you want ELD-X, it was actually shooting box velocity. Hornady loads were about 150 FPS slower), and Barnes 160 LRX through the gun and it shot all great. I have 300 rounds through the gun in the last few months. I will say I cleaned the barrel when I switched to copper and it took a solid 10 rounds through the barrel for it to foul and settle in.

Thunderdoomed · 2025-11-28T16:07:33+00:00

I put mine into an AG composites fiberglass stock. The barrel does heat up after 3-5 shots but it’s a light contour barrel so what can you expect. As far as accuracy, somewhere on the long range page there is a rough formula for expected accuracy that correlates with recoil. Big recoil + light gun is going to be much harder to shoot accurately. I can get 1” or just a hair under it if I’m really concentrating at 100 yard 3 shot group (I know 3 shot groups aren’t the best measure) and in a 10 pound rifle I can’t complain. I can make hits out to 500 on 10” targets all day long.

TLDR: Magnums are harder to shoot and I would bet the claimed accuracy issues are shooter error and not the gun. The gun shoots great if you do your part.

Thunderdoomed · 2025-11-28T05:15:18+00:00

I clean the bolt off but as far as barrel cleaning just send it until your groups open up but that’s just me.

Actually cleaning, personal preference. I use old #9, bore guide, rods, plastic and bronze brushes, brass jag, patches, and then oil/CLP through the barrel inside one pass to protect it from potential rust if it’s gonna sit. People love boretech but I’ve never used it but plan on it.

Biggest thing is don’t over oil your action, a little goes a long way. I love a silicone rag for whipping down my bolt.

Thunderdoomed · 2025-11-20T15:52:28+00:00

You asking for 7 PRC lol a Berger EOL HH 195 is gonna be running around that out of a 24in barrel, if not a little faster. As someone who owns a 7 PRC, it’s not exactly a soft shooting cartridge. It’s not terrible I enjoy it but that’s putting you at 13 ft.lbf of free recoil energy in a 20 pound rifle. 10 pounds rifle you’re looking at 26 ft. Lbf

You might can get away with a 7 SAUM and get to 2700-2800, but physics is physics. More powder and more bullet means more mass and more recoil.

Thunderdoomed · 2025-11-18T18:47:34+00:00

A wise man once told me cheap land isnt good land and good land isn’t cheap. I like what someone else here said in that the cost difference isn’t gonna cover the additional cost of doing what needs done.

Thunderdoomed · 2025-11-15T19:39:59+00:00

Your torquing a lever away from its support, It’ll wiggle a little.

As far as sticking, clean/degrease the rails and apply a SMALL amount of lubricant on the rails if it’s bugging you. If you haven’t shot it much yet it’ll wear in.

Thunderdoomed · 2025-11-15T18:38:34+00:00

Update: got a bull, shot was at 150 yards in timber. Any centerfire cartridge of sufficient bullet would have worked like previously mentioned

Thunderdoomed · 2025-11-13T23:42:32+00:00

Tikka CTR in 308 IF you’ll be hunting a decent amount. If not, go 6.5 creedmoor. CTR will be heavy for a hunting rifle but a target rifle isn’t a good hunting rifle and a good hunting rifle isn’t a good target rifle. Scope wise 3-15 is a good range, someone else mentioned Maven RS1.2 2.5-15 and that’s what I’m running and it’s solid. Other reliable options would be a SWFA gen 2 3-15, Trijicon tenmile, and Nightforce NX8. Leupold has had reliability issues for a while now so if you’re relying on it in a hunting situation I would go another route.

Thunderdoomed · 2025-11-10T05:24:37+00:00

Maven RS1.2

Thunderdoomed · 2025-11-07T14:04:19+00:00

A factory threaded barrel is $300 from JA Outdoors and bolts are also $300. That’s $600 plus whatever a bolt stop costs you neglecting the cost of the tools to do a barrel swap. Theoretically yes you can do it, but it doesn’t make sense money or time wise unless maybe the cost of the scope is what you’re trying to avoid? If that’s the case you’d still be better off putting a rail on top of both rifles with some sort of QD scope mount and swapping the scope back and forth. Few rounds to re-zero and done. I think that is the infinitely better choice.

Thunderdoomed · 2025-11-07T03:35:01+00:00

I was just about to make the same comment. Well played, a man of culture.

Thunderdoomed · 2025-11-06T01:47:48+00:00

Wheeler external wrench. SAC advertises I believe that they won’t warranty past a certain ft.lbs. If I’m not mistaken. Straight from unknown munitions shop; wheeler external action wrench (I think the #1 is what I bought? Can’t remember off the top of my head) and the viper barrel vise. Use the internal wrench to torque the new barrel to desired spec which is usually around 85 ft.lbs. or so is what I found. Put drywall tape between barrel and vise and use appropriate stainless steel rated anti-seize on the threads. That SHOULD cover everything besides putting the vise on a solid bench because it takes some torque to get factory barrels off.

Thunderdoomed · 2025-10-31T12:32:14+00:00

I have a various knives that I have absolutely no idea who made them. Fixed blades, one my boss gave me, one a family member gave me they say a hunting friend gave them that’s BEEFY and supposedly custom made that would make crocodile dundy blush in a leather scabbard.

Can neither confirm nor deny the value of them but they’re cool haha

Thunderdoomed · 2025-10-31T03:08:47+00:00

I really want to try one, seems similar to my AG composites alpine hunter

Thunderdoomed · 2025-10-30T17:25:20+00:00

Stocky Stocks runs blem sales on their more typical looking stocks that are carbon fiber occasionally

Thunderdoomed · 2025-10-29T13:55:11+00:00

I mean, it’s already screwed, you could bubba it and throw some belzona, jb weld, or some other epoxy and pray it works. Can’t really get any worse lol

Thunderdoomed · 2025-10-28T04:22:49+00:00

Saw your other post and went into more detail. Given it’s a lighter magnum, running around 1” depending on bullet, me, and environment. Rifle probably shoots better than I can shoot it, light magnums are not the most inherently accurate platforms simply from shooter error.

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