Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Tikka T3 .243 and Burris 3-9 FFII Just Sucks.....

You would have more luck trying to impeach OBama than this assclown showing up to put his money where his mouth is.

FWIW one of my Tikkas is a 695 Whitetail in 7mag. Like Blackheart, 11 years and counting and it's extremely tough and unbelievablly accurate. That Remy/Tikka out of the box showdown is a mismatch.

+1,000,000

I had a T3 synthetic in 338 Fed. that wouldn't shoot no matter what I did. I just got frustrated with it and it went down the road.

Would I buy another....prolly not.....but that is just me!!!

Many a member here has had great luck with the T3's.

I had a LH T3 Lite in 270WSM which was only average in accuracy (at best) and abysmally slow and it went down the road.

Would I buy another....prolly not.....but that is just me!!!

Many a member here has had great luck with the T3's.

I do like the FFII's!

Picked up a T3 light in 6.5x55 a year or so ago, never found a load that shot much over MOA. Settled on 140 Accubonds pushed to just over 2700 with R22. For kicks one day fired a 15 round string with minimal cooling, and the dang thing only opened up to 1 1/4". It impressed me pretty well plastic or no.

Also had one in 7RM for a bit, but traded it off. It was still an honest MOA shooter, just a touch more finicky than the 6.5. Probably should have held on to it as the new 7 in the safe is 700CDL. While being prettier, it demanded bedding, floating and much more load work to get to the same level of consistency and accuracy as the Tikka.

Great shootin' HBB! Another Tikka in the house, eh? Best factory rifle built, ALL things considered.

Yep, the Tikkas are, in my opinion, the most rifle you can get for the money.

+1.I have the proof in the safe.The only rifle I have that will shoot with my T3(.25-06)is my Vanguard(.257 Weatherby).

I have a .270 that ate a .308 round and survived with nothing more than a cracked bolt shroud, and yes including the .308 round it still finished the group at under 1.5moa. Extremely accurate with the 110ttsx and vmax as well. I dont know if its fast or slow but it does about 3375fps with either of the 110 and Im not asking for anymore speed.

That is impressive performance.

Wonder if Swampy has ever seen a Glock ?

I love Glocks, but I don't want a plastic deer rifle.

So it's a matter of aesthetics for you? I have no problem with that whatsoever (any more than I'd have a problem with somebody that prefers redheads over brunettes) but you often come across (intentionally or otherwise) as berating a rifle's quality/utility based on "plastic" components. Any love for Glocks on your part all but concedes a quality rifle need not be made of all metal and wood.

A pistol is a tool like a hammer, it can be ugly as long as it works 100% of the time. A deer rifle for me is not....it's a portal to the past....when this country was another kind of place. I have no interest in foreign made plastic deer rifles. The firearms industry is one of the few places where America still makes a better quality product than anyone else and I will continue to support it, esp. when that quality cost a lot less.

Not a darn thing wrong with the boldened part of your quote and you're hardly alone in this opinion. Go forth with your hunting and shooting with rifles that suit your taste and be happy.

The second part is a lot more gray, and forgive me, any opinion you hold otherwise doesn't make it a fact. In keeping things germane to this thread the Tikka brand has been stunningly successful in putting consistently accurate (sorry, I mean VERY accurate) rifles in the hands of shooters at very competitive prices. Has 100% of everyone that's ever picked one up swooned over them? No, but I've yet to hear such a thing from any standard production make...and I do mean any. Still, even the most cursory glance in most any shooting website will show great support of Tikka's accuracy and utility, so much so I need not even offer my opinion. (nevermind that I own a T3 SS Lite in .308 that would support that contention most robustly)

If they aren't your cup of tea so be it but there's no shortage of people that would fall over themselves to challenge you to an out of the box accuracy challenge between Tikka (among others) and your pet brand.

How many of you Tikka guys sit around and complain about how our economy is in the toilet because of all the companies that produce products overseas and deny jobs to American workers????? Myself, I don't subscribe to that line of thinking but many do. I have a friend who shoots a Tikka T3 Lite in 30-06. It is accurate and handles very well, but.....that sucker looks ugly to me. I wouldn't buy one for that reason but that's just my opinion and we all know about opinions. I can't believe that you guys still let Swampy get under your skin. Life is too short to let the dude get to you. I got to give old Swampman credit. He sure has a target rich environment here on these forums.

Being right all the time won't win you any popularlity contest...just ask Jesus Christ.

That is how a view a rifle. Especially for us western hunters that sometimes have to wait years just to get a damn deer tag. I want it to perform, I don't want to baby a piece or wood, and blued metal.

Understood but the important metal parts should be metal, and the plastic parts plastic.