I have a almost new Tikka T3 lite 308- I have put about 40-50 rounds though it so far and never had a glitch until tonight...I had 4 rounds of Remington corelock 150 grain ammo not fire when I tried to fire the gun. Luckily I was not trying to shoot a deer with it! The fireing pin indented the primer, but the round did not fire-Did I just get a bad batch of remington ammo? The 5th round fired just fine so I do not think it is the gun-I hope not. This was my favorite " go to" gun this year, but now I am not sure the gun will come out of the safe again this year-it is now a trust thing-I'll get it out to the range and send more round through it, but probably not until after the season.

So, is this a gun issue or a ammo issue?

Dave

My friend has a Tikka that has 'clicked' twice and both at different deer. He's not sure why, but thinks its something to do with having a bit too much lube in the firing pin, and it collected too much dirt or something. Not exactly sure but something to look into....

OK, upon closer inspection in better light, the indentations on the primer is not nearly deep enough-nothing like the other fired casings I had laying around. I also now can see some white stuff in the dent of the primer that fired-looks like white plastic stuff. wonder what this could be? I also found some of it in the ridges around the primer of the other rounds that did not fire...

I took the bolt out, cocked the firing pin into the "ready" position, wiped down the bolt face and the exposed firing pin (a little white gunk came off-but very scant amounts) and took the gun to the range today-30 rounds without a glitch...but I still would like to take the bolt apart and clean it out before I fully trust the gun again---how would I go about doing this?