Your kidding right
KevinG; Since it's a new rifle why wouldn't you go back to place of purchase & ask for another clip & see if that fixed it?
Tikka troubles
- Thread starter kevin g
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Thankx to everyone who tried to help me out!! I really appreciate it! 
I did learn that this is NOT the first time that this type of problem has come up for these TIKKA rifles. This is my first Tikka ...??...nuff said!!...Stay tuned for the "nail-biting conclusion"....it'll be airing as soon as Tikka comes thru!
Amphibious..I didn't bite on that one, I knew better. ..So, you'll be glad to know that I edited my original post. I changed the phrase (clip model) to the appropiate word and model # (BTW..# means number)..I feel like such a "fifth grader" ! Then again, your total posts would only read 3399 had I not EFFED up!
I did learn that this is NOT the first time that this type of problem has come up for these TIKKA rifles. This is my first Tikka ...??...nuff said!!...Stay tuned for the "nail-biting conclusion"....it'll be airing as soon as Tikka comes thru!Amphibious..I didn't bite on that one, I knew better.
..So, you'll be glad to know that I edited my original post. I changed the phrase (clip model) to the appropiate word and model # (BTW..# means number)..I feel like such a "fifth grader" ! Then again, your total posts would only read 3399 had I not EFFED up!HOME3....I wish I read that article BEFORE I got that Tikka!..I originally went to get a single shot, right bolt-left port, Savage LRPV in 223....but Gawwwwwd it was so much heavier, I thought...Mannn, I'll never carry this thing anywhere. Sooo I opted for a "magazine fed" B/A Tikka!...siiighhhhh!!
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I'm sorry your magazine is having issues. If only you'd have bought a quality firearm like a remington or a winchester. Those manufacturers have never, ever, ever had a single moment's problem with any part of them, especially magazines. And I'm certain that a quality manufacturer like savage has never cut a single corner in order to save in manufacturing costs. Rugers never have any issues either. EVER! Neither do marlins. Only Tikka. Too bad you made that mistake.
The Tikka is a cheap piece of garbage! Of course it is... Chuck Hawks said so.
The only way you can find a decent quality firearm [according to the gospel of saint Hawks] is to find one made in the 1950's or before. Every single rifle from that era is pure perfection. No matter what. No one had ever even heard of a problem with a firearm until the 1960's! Then after that every rifle is a cheap, poorly made, over priced excuse for a pop gun. I mean, you just hold it and practically falls apart in your hands! No, wait... I thought that was only the Tikka that did that?!
Anyway, grumpy old complaining curmudgeons are always right, and if anyone were to buy a firearm and have to work out a few minor kinks, then it is simply because all rifles made today are sh!t, especially Tikka's. They're the worst kind of sh!t. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY would have to work out any kinks on a firearm made in the 1950's or earlier! Your magazine has issues... That's because Tikka is garbage, so you might as well just throw the thing away and start over. No one else would want it. There's no way to fix the mag or replace it; the whole gun is just garbage!
By the way... my Tikka will outshoot my 1950's Husqvarna, but because I'm talking of accuracy, I must be full of crap [according to Hawks].
The Tikka is a cheap piece of garbage! Of course it is... Chuck Hawks said so.
The only way you can find a decent quality firearm [according to the gospel of saint Hawks] is to find one made in the 1950's or before. Every single rifle from that era is pure perfection. No matter what. No one had ever even heard of a problem with a firearm until the 1960's! Then after that every rifle is a cheap, poorly made, over priced excuse for a pop gun. I mean, you just hold it and practically falls apart in your hands! No, wait... I thought that was only the Tikka that did that?!
Anyway, grumpy old complaining curmudgeons are always right, and if anyone were to buy a firearm and have to work out a few minor kinks, then it is simply because all rifles made today are sh!t, especially Tikka's. They're the worst kind of sh!t. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY would have to work out any kinks on a firearm made in the 1950's or earlier! Your magazine has issues... That's because Tikka is garbage, so you might as well just throw the thing away and start over. No one else would want it. There's no way to fix the mag or replace it; the whole gun is just garbage!
By the way... my Tikka will outshoot my 1950's Husqvarna, but because I'm talking of accuracy, I must be full of crap [according to Hawks].
The T3's aren't junk just because Chuck Hawks says so.
The T3's are junk for lots more reasons than that.
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- Eastern Edge of the Foothills
The T3's are junk for lots more reasons than that.
I have no problems that you don't like tikka. Some like chunky peanut butter and some like smooth. I'm curious though: what, in your opinion, is a quality production rifle currently manufactured today? If possible, keep it under $2000. I mean, do you have to build a custom gun to get quality? Do you have to get a made-to-spec Dumoulin or Mauser? Or will a Remington or Winchester off the rack suffice? I know you're not fond of savage.
Under $2000 gives you plenty of options. A buddy just bought a Winchester Extreme Weather rifle for about $1100 and it already comes with a decent B&C stock and metal parts. If I was looking for a off the shelf rifle right now, I'd look at that closely.
Ruger Hawkeyes are also great value and only get better if you add a Macmillan stock to it. Cost with the new stock is about $1500
Lots of options out there without going over the $2000 mark or resorting to a T3.
T3's were a good deal when they were $500,a nd plenty of gun for that price tag. Nowdays they are $800-$1200 and I don't know why anyone would buy a T3 for $800 when you could get a Ruger for the same price....
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the t3's aren't junk just because chuck hawks says so.
The t3's are junk for lots more reasons than that.
T3's were a good deal when they were $500,a nd plenty of gun for that price tag. Nowdays they are $800-$1200 and I don't know why anyone would buy a T3 for $800 when you could get a Ruger for the same price....[/QUOTE]
Maybe the current T3s are showing problems, but the T3 I bought a few years ago is a damnsite better rifle than some of the Rugers I've acquired recently, and I really like Rugers.
My 375 Ruger came out of the box with the front swivel stud bearing heavily on the barrel, a slight warp in the forearm and a crack in the web of the wood under the receiver.
My 338 RCM also had a warp in the forearm, rear action bolt hole drilled slightly off kilter, and was recalled to check the possibility of rear sight screw holes being drilled too deep....thankfully they were not.
My 358 Frontier is my only trouble-free Ruger purchase and it is an awesome performer putting venison in my freezer first time out.
Hopefully my #1 303 will work out to be ok.
As I said before , I do like Rugers....
Maybe the current T3s are showing problems, but the T3 I bought a few years ago is a damnsite better rifle than some of the Rugers I've acquired recently, and I really like Rugers.
My 375 Ruger came out of the box with the front swivel stud bearing heavily on the barrel, a slight warp in the forearm and a crack in the web of the wood under the receiver.
My 338 RCM also had a warp in the forearm, rear action bolt hole drilled slightly off kilter, and was recalled to check the possibility of rear sight screw holes being drilled too deep....thankfully they were not.
My 358 Frontier is my only trouble-free Ruger purchase and it is an awesome performer putting venison in my freezer first time out.
Hopefully my #1 303 will work out to be ok.
As I said before , I do like Rugers....
Could not agree more.
Or even still find a used M77 MK II and stock it in a McMillan and add the scope for close to $1500.
Maybe the current T3s are showing problems, but the T3 I bought a few years ago is a damnsite better rifle than some of the Rugers I've acquired recently, and I really like Rugers.
My 375 Ruger came out of the box with the front swivel stud bearing heavily on the barrel, a slight warp in the forearm and a crack in the web of the wood under the receiver.
My 338 RCM also had a warp in the forearm, rear action bolt hole drilled slightly off kilter, and was recalled to check the possibility of rear sight screw holes being drilled too deep....thankfully they were not.
My 358 Frontier is my only trouble-free Ruger purchase and it is an awesome performer putting venison in my freezer first time out.
Hopefully my #1 303 will work out to be ok.
As I said before , I do like Rugers....[/QUOTE]
I'd say you had some bad luck. With a T3, it's not luck, but design....
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Thanks for the opinions. I find it very interesting.
The one Ruger Mk II [tang safety] I had was not very accurate at all. It was in 7RM and a good group was 2" at 100 yards. Tried every factory load I could find and a whole slough of hand load combinations. Sold the thing and was happy to see it go. The Tikka I bought with the money from the Ruger shoots the best groups I've ever done. 3 shots touching is not uncommon. The only rifle I have that could rival its accuracy is the X-bolt in 7 WSM. I bought the Tikka used for $600. It's a hunter model with the wood stock.
Small sample sizes, so obviously not an accurate cross-section of all rifles by each manufacturer, but I'll tell ya, I'm hesitant to put any money into a Ruger again. And I agree... the Tikka's have become too expensive. The reason for that is because they're selling!
I could see getting a Winchester all weather though...
Maybe in .325 WSM!
The one Ruger Mk II [tang safety] I had was not very accurate at all. It was in 7RM and a good group was 2" at 100 yards. Tried every factory load I could find and a whole slough of hand load combinations. Sold the thing and was happy to see it go. The Tikka I bought with the money from the Ruger shoots the best groups I've ever done. 3 shots touching is not uncommon. The only rifle I have that could rival its accuracy is the X-bolt in 7 WSM. I bought the Tikka used for $600. It's a hunter model with the wood stock.
Small sample sizes, so obviously not an accurate cross-section of all rifles by each manufacturer, but I'll tell ya, I'm hesitant to put any money into a Ruger again. And I agree... the Tikka's have become too expensive. The reason for that is because they're selling!
I could see getting a Winchester all weather though...
Maybe in .325 WSM!
I've posted pics of groups shot with Rugers ad naseum here...Including a 14 shot group spanning under 2" using 14 different powder charges.
Rugers have no accuracy issues.
1MOA is EASY to obtain with almost any Ruger 77 MK II
Rugers have no accuracy issues.
1MOA is EASY to obtain with almost any Ruger 77 MK II
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The 'obtain' word keeps me hesitant. How likely is it to get a Ruger to do 1 MOA right out of the box? From my experience you can EXPECT a Tikka to shoot better than 1 MOA right out of the box.
I know you can MAKE a Ruger accurate. All you have to do it re-work the whole thing... like the trigger, the barrel, the stock, have it perfectly bedded and the action trued. That's easy.
Okay, now I'm just being a smarta$$, so don't take me too seriously.
I've thought about the Ruger Hawkeye on occasion, but I just can't get over the bad experience I had before.
I did just buy a 10/22, so in the near future we'll see if Ruger makes me curse again or not.
Feed it good ammo and it's not an issue, right out of the box. Even 1.5-2MOA is sufficient for hunting purposes, though.
The thing that is interesting about T3 owners is that they all go on about accuracy.
Accuracy is important, but if that's *all* you got to brag about in a hunting rifle, I suggest you stay close to the truck.
I'd bed and do the trigger and maybe replace the stock on most rifles anyway, but it's not necessary to kill a deer or moose.
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So here's another 'isolated' Ruger anecdote:
When I was 14 I went hunting with my dad. It was the first time I was allowed to carry the gun. Dad was busy with work and stayed in the truck to do some paperwork, but told me to go down this little draw, creep up to an aspen stand, and there should be a deer there. He was right. It was a decent 3 pt mulie; nice and legal. It saw me before I saw it, and when I did see it, it was staring right at me, only about 75 yards away. I was holding a Ruger Ultralite in .250-3000. Because of my inexperience I didn't yet have a shell in the chamber, so I slowly worked the action trying not to scare the deer. The action jammed up. I tried to clear it, and that took a couple minutes. While I was fiddling with the action the deer walked off, up the other side of the draw, into some spruce jungle and was gone.
That was my first experience with ruger, but not my last. I've had other issues with Ruger. But I have killed a few deer with them as well. I've lost deer when holding a Ruger in my hands, and I can say that those losses happened simply because I was holding a Ruger. The .250-3000, .243 int'l, a .308 ultralite, a 7RM MkII, and a .338 are the Rugers I've had experience with. I've killed deer with each [not the .338], but I've lost deer with each [jams, FTF]. [not the .338, but it still had issues. Was never reliable enough to take hunting]
I've killed 7 deer in 2 seasons with my Tikka. Never had a problem. To me that is reliable. I know people don't like tikka because of the polymer mag and trigger guard, the plastic stock [mine's a hunter and has decent wood, so that's N/A] and the recoil lug. I've heard complaints about the bolt shroud as well. In the past 2.5 years, 7 deer, innumerable trips to the range, very hot handloads, and countless miles walked while carrying it, if it had given me issues, I'd get rid of it. But in my experience the Tikka's polymer mag, etc, hasn't held me back. Hasn't given me any issues. It has given me reliable feeding, no jams, very good [outstanding] accuracy, and hits what I aim at. I'd buy another one with no qualms at all. Maybe in 300WSM [since wsm's are being bashed in another thread]. I don't think Ruger makes a terrible product, but I think that the Rugers are more tempermental and more prone to issues unless a lot of fiddling and after-market work is done. My Tikka has a user adjustable trigger, I like the wood stock, and I don't have to wonder when I buy one if the accuracy will be up to par. I can trust that it will be. And I'll have no fear about taking it far, far, far from the truck.
