Tikka are ugly
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I have owned a few Tikkas, we are down to one 7-08 in a Boyd's stock, my Wife's, I preferred the Forest stocks but I thought the wood grain was quite plain, I prefer hinged floor plates so I have gone away from Tikkas. I never thought of Remington or Savage as being in the same class as a Tikka. The rifle that I thought was comparable, is the X bolt, I also had an A7, and an 85, I thought these in the synthetic models were ugly as well. Never had a feed issue or accuracy problems on the Tikka, Browning or the Sakos I owned, so they start to look good, when you start to trust their accuracy and reliability. My Son has a stainless Hunter in 270wsm and was thinking about going to a 270win, I offered Him a straight trade for my A7 before it sold and He decided to keep His Tikka, so beauty or ugly is a personal thing.
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I don't own any Tikka's, never have, but the T3x models look pretty decent. The second they offer a T3x Compact SuperLite in 308 I'll buy one. Might not be the prettiest rifles ever but they seem to be reliably very accurate, relatively lightweight, have consistently some of the smoothest actions available, and are relatively inexpensive. The Battue models are another one I'm interested in, have contemplated selling my Ruger GSR for one of them or the Compact model a number of times.
Tikka's are excellent rifles, especially for their price. However, the OEM stocks do leave a lot to be desired.
Thankfully, there's ever growing aftermarket support for Tikka's, you can always change the stock out for any one of these:
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Thankfully, there's ever growing aftermarket support for Tikka's, you can always change the stock out for any one of these:
https://kineticresearchgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/W3-RT-m08.jpg
I like tikka's even tho I sold all mine. The ugliest rifle is a savage, even with a cool looking carbon barrel and an aftermarket stock the savages are butt ugly. I think tikka's are overpriced now, a few years ago they were a good option for the cost. Biggest down fall on a tikka is the limited mag length.
nothing wrong with the Savage Axis it shoots the same bullets as the more expensive safe queens
you will never find my Savage Axis on the EE - it shoots better than any tikka I've owned and I've shot my Axis over 1,700 times
Horrible QA/QC is one reason to avoid Savage...
You never ever see a Tikka in any North American gun magazine as they make every other rifle look like ####.
I actually prefer my T3 over my Sako Finnlight. The T3's just perform and don't cost 3 times as much. A fool and his money and all that.
I actually prefer my T3 over my Sako Finnlight. The T3's just perform and don't cost 3 times as much. A fool and his money and all that.
