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Get something heavier. 308 or a 30.06. Especially if you are looking at a Tikka quality level rifle.
Variety is the spice of life, and diversity in calibres gives you options.
Thinking of a Tikka T3 Lite Stainless
- Thread starter Richard Cranium
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Get something heavier. 308 or a 30.06. Especially if you are looking at a Tikka quality level rifle.
Variety is the spice of life, and diversity in calibres gives you options.
Theres no doubt: Tikka uses reinforced polymer, and butler creek uses polycarbonate. I will still bet you polymer wears out/fails before steel. This is fine for a rifle that may see a few hundred rounds over its lifetime, so you probably wont notice the difference.
As for Sako with plastic mags: that was only the A7, and you'll notice that they use steel feed lips, while the body of the magazine is polymer. The 75s and 85s use all steel magazines.
Ironically the Tikka mags cost just as much as the Steel Sako equivelents.
Ok I read your posts and thought, I haven't even seen a new Win Model 70 so maybe he's right.
Well yesterday I was at the range and a fella had a fairly new SS Winchester CRF model in 300 WSM. He bought it from Wholesale Sports and let me look it over. Now although I didn't shoot it he was shooting some nice groups with factory ammo. But besides it being a CRF action do you really believe you are getting THAT much more rifle in the Winchester over the Tikka ? The Winchester is only $200 more from what I can tell ? I don't see what would make the Winchester a life time rifle and the Tikka not like you are saying. Sure it is a nice rifle but quality wise it did not seem to be all that more than the T3. I wish I could have shot it but the owner was not.....mmmm that friendly. He said he like it but that was about it.
I bought a Tikka T3 Varmint Heavy Barrel .308 in January and love it, smoothest action I've ever used and accurate with factory ammo. I've had it out in -30 shooting for hours with no problems.
As for the plastic parts....I think of this and laugh. The reason why we recycle plastic is because if it's put into the garbage system it will sit INTACT FOREVER. No matter what the conditions. Just food for thought, plastic is long lasting and durable, definately does not have the look or feel of steel but definately gets the job done.
As for the plastic parts....I think of this and laugh. The reason why we recycle plastic is because if it's put into the garbage system it will sit INTACT FOREVER. No matter what the conditions. Just food for thought, plastic is long lasting and durable, definately does not have the look or feel of steel but definately gets the job done.
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I had one of those A7's
the mag needed to be screwed around with to hold the rounds in it and to feed properly.
My T3 mags work perfectly right out of the box.
Im a believer in the polymer mag.
Its just the old way of thinking that makes guys weary of plastic parts.
I run into the same arguement every day with old timers who say aluminum windows are better than the PVC windows of today
I run into the same arguement every day with old timers who say aluminum windows are better than the PVC windows of today
Only someone who has never lived with aluminum windows would say something like that; believe me I'd take PVC windows over aluminum
at twice the cost. My only gripe about the T3 mags, so far, is the cost: they can't cost more then a couple of bucks to manufacture, but they want $60 to
$70 for them.
What the hell is with that?
