Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles Drank the Tikka kool-aid --- Again!

I think that they are the best off the shelf rifle offered today. No question. I only have one wooden stocked Tikka left in my collection. I prefer the synthetic stocked versions, but that's me.

WRT their performance, it's hard to argue with how they shoot. I remember when Tikkas were first coming into the US in larger quantities. Lots of people poo-pooed them, but few people actually used or shot them. Their quality and performance won the day.

My only regret is selling a 595 in 6.5x55. I just never used it. Of the Tikkas, my two faves are a 222 T3 and a hvy barreled 308 that I used for informal shoots at my old club.

I could never warm up to Remington or Winchester bolts. I suppose it was because there were so many inexpensive, but finely built Euro rifles available when I was a teenager. So much work had to be done to the Remchesters, compared to the rifles from the other side of the Atlantic.

Probably not a view of firearms that would win many friends on a US gunboard.