What I do not get is why I have to have years of experience in the field with one to form my opinion. Not to sound arrogant, but I do know a thing or two of rifles. I get what I am looking at, and how it works and what it does. If I don't like what I see from the get, I am probably not going to use it much.
And I never used the term "cheap" (that you put in quotes) any where. Quite the contrary. I feel the Tikka should be cheap, or at least cheaper. But it isn't........
You sound like a fellow that I met at the range with a 3500.00 custom rifle topped with an 1900.00 scope.
He was plumb apoplectic when my straight factory Tikka T3 .243 topped with a Buriis FFII 3-9 in the factory rings shot tighter groups at 300 yards (just under 1 inch groups)than his custom wonder did at 100 yards.
He could not believe something "so ugly and cheap looking" could do that.
Has somebody with a Tikka done that to you too?
