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AlaskaCub,

I was not offended about your flatlander comment, because your right I am one. I hunt today as the crow flies about 1/2 mile from my front door. If it wasn't for a river in between it and me I could walk to my deer stand.

In my younger years I hunted Northern Maine, Eastern Canada, Wyoming, and Africa with some regularity. Now I'm retired and pursue hunting in a more relaxed and lazy fashion.

My needs and yours are NOT the same. Nor will our equipment be the same. What you can do yearly with ease, what would cost me a fortune to do. I am just a little bit envious. Yours is a great state to live and work in. But only for the hardy, and I'm not sure I qualify.

Sorry for the off topic, and now back to our regularly scheduled programing.

Bob

Not me, but to each his own. I have seen way to many plastic parts, on all sorts of items break, to ever have enough faith in it for a trigger guard on my hunting rifle. I have never seen anything made of pot metal break. Here's to hoping that neither of us has to regret our decision.

I don't really see how it makes sense to complain about plastic on the Tikka's or the Sako A7's. If you want all metal buy the Sako 85.............................DJ

If you shop around you can find NIB Sako 75's for about $125-$150 more than the A7 sells for (just under $1,000) in the wood version. I haven't priced any NIB 75's in synthetic stock so I dunno about those.

Just putting that out there as an option. Everyone has to draw the line somewhere or you'l be - well for $200 more I can have XXX and before you know it you're going for $200 more than YYY I can just get a total custom...see what I mean

The only NEW Remington I ever bought had a plastic trigger guard. (which I replaced).

AlaskaCub, how do you know what kind of hunting I do?

Did I say that I knew what kind of hunting you did?

Cub, you need to get a 300WSM Sako Finnlight and stick in a blind magazine Edge.

I am working on something new right now, a M70 Featherweight.

I think sako/tikka/berretta must have something against the 204, once again no 204 with the a7 and no varmint either, I can't find a 204 in any of the sako/tikka brands anywhere including on gunbroker, but they do make the 338 federal

AlaskaCub, read the first sentence. Is that because of where I live that the Tikka is so accurate, where I hunt, or what did you mean by that assinine statement?

I'm of the opinion that AC's statement was perfectly clear. Frankly it makes alot of sense to me. Probably because I hunt in very similar habitats and have very similar concerns.
BTW, the so called "pot metal" trigger guards and even a floorplate of aluminium alloy are alot tougher than many realize. I've seen a few FP's bent, but I've never seen an alloy TG broken. Neither has my local custom gun maker. A guy that specializes in very light Mtn Rifles, often magnums.
Steel TG's and FP's are to be prefered for such use. No doubt about it. But they do weigh quite a bit. The SS FP & TG on my M70 SA weigh right at 8 ozs. Not always the best choice. E

The same can be said of Tikka's "plastic"

E, as usual I could give a rats azz what you think.

Assinine huh.....damn Raider chill out man, I am not attacking you! What I was referring to was the deer hunting that is done in most of the U.S., in which guys hunt out of a tree stand, ground blind, elevated blind, or just plain still hunting fields, prairies and thickets in fairly "FLAT" country. And are often not very far from a truck,4 wheeler, side by side, whatever. IME (yes I have hunted that kind of country) that kind of hunting can be done with any rifle, and its durability will not be tested the same way as some parts of the U.S., and Canada.

Little defensive are we?????

AlaskaCub, you've got E's endorsement, that ought to make you feel good. Adios amigo.

I think that you are yearning for AlaskaCub's endorsement. But hurt that he hasn't given it to you. Get over it.