At 100 yards, it opened up a little bit, with 10-shot groups hovering right around 1 inch. The Tikka T1x shoots great, and 50-yard groups were easily half an inch in diameter. Unfortunately, all my marmots are buried safely under several feet of snow. Otherwise, I would have taken the Tikka out for one of my favorite varmint hunts.

It’s quite a shame that it is the middle of winter. The trigger breaking was perfect every time, and I love watching my impacts right as the trigger breaks. I like heavier-than-standard rifles because of the lack of recoil and general accuracy, and the T1x is exactly what I want in a rimfire rifle. Shooting the Tikka was an absolute pleasure. Both of them shot the lights out, and there wasn’t a squirrel left in the county that was safe inside 200 yards. I only had a couple of kinds of ammo to try – the old standard Hornady 17-grain V-Max load and the CCI 20-grain hollow-point load. In no time at all, I had adjusted my K318i to zero and shot a few patterns to see how the rifle performed. The recoil was more of a jolt in no particular direction, which makes spotting your shots easy. 17 HMR is basically the smallest magnum in existence. It’s not a light rifle as far as rimfires go, and the. This feature made the rifle easily fitted to a new shooter in just a few seconds. At the back of the stock, there are depressible buttons to adjust both the comb height and length of pull. The detachable 10-round magazine fits neatly into the bottom of the stock, and the forward-mounted release tab is easily manipulated for loading. As it should be, the muzzle was nicely crowned and offered a 1/2-28 thread. 17 HMR and hosted a 20-inch barrel with a 1:9 twist. The clean break also reminded me of the trigger I fell in love with on my T3. The trigger in the T1x is a great little single-stage trigger. But I was so expecting to feel what my T3 does that it caught me off guard to have such a short bolt-throw and stroke. The polished finish of the T1x bolt knob was reminiscent of every T3 rifle I’ve ever shot and ran similarly as well. Handsome polymer sections were placed at all the likely ground contact points, and there were dual front sling studs for both a sling and a bipod. The thumbhole stock was not what I call a good fit to my hand, but it was not an issue at all as I generally run my thumb parallel to my trigger finger. Of course, after checking the rifle, I had to get it to my shoulder to see how it felt.

The handsome curves of the Tikka action flow very well with the aesthetics of the stock, and the fit was good and tight as well. The handsome little rifle came to me married to a Boyds At-One hardwood stock in a bright red color. I must admit, I was quite pleasantly surprised when I opened the box containing the T1x.

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