Sniper Central Blog

So, I was over visiting the tikka web page (www.tikka.fi) and browsed over to the varmint rifle product page and took a look at the available calibers. Tikka chambers that rifle in 18 different calibers! Unfortunately Beretta USA is the importer and they have deemed that the American Shooter is only interested in 3 of those, the .223, .22-250 and 308. Hum, that doesn’t seem right. Look at the list

• 204 Ruger
• 222 Rem
• 223 Rem
• 22-250 Rem
• 243 Win
• 260 Rem
• 7 mm-08 Rem
• 308 Win
• 270 WSM
• 300 WSM
• 25-06 Rem
• 6.5×55 SE
• 270 Win
• 30-06 Sprg
• 9.3×62
• 7 mm Rem Mag
• 300 Win Mag
• 338 Win Mag

Now I understand the cost of importing and not knowing what the market will bare, etc. But keep in mind, this is a relatively affordable, very accurate, heavy barrel rifle that is available from the factory in great calibers like the .260 Remington, .30-06, 6.5×55 Swedish, 300 Win Mag and others. It would be fantastic if there was even some way to do special orders through some mechanism to be able to order and get one of these rifles, even if it took several months. Heck, the 6.5×55 even has a 1:8″ twist. It is also neat to see the .308 with a 1:11″ twist. It is great to see them buck the trend a bit and offer all these calibers with good thought out twist rates in a production heavy barrel varmint/target rifle. If we could just get Beretta USA to import them all….

I believe the following tip comes from the 6mmBR.com site, but I am not positive, as I saw it in a newsletter from a shooting association I belong to….

From the Leupold Technical Department: “When focusing a long range scope with side focus, turn to infinity then back to where the target is in focus. If you accidentally go past that point, do not try to backup to achieve focus, but go all the way back to infinity again and approach focus once more. This type of scope has slack in the focus and will not focus accurately if brought past and then back to focus. You must go back to infinity and then start again.”