Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Tikka, the custom rifle killer...

If they'd make a short action I'm in, otherwise I'll pass..

Left handed Kimber of Oregon M84.
Better in just about every respect.
And yes, I've owned a T3.

I agree with this too. I don't mind the mags or trigger guard myself but do believe if the shroud and bottom metal were aluminum they would sell more. I think a lot of peoples first impression based on the plastic parts and (great) but low price leaves them with an opinion of cheap and not made as well. Those that own them and know anything about them know they are made very well and shoot very well. Even the injection molded stock is the best I have seen of that type.

I put a replacement shroud on mine just because it made me happy.

I have had alot of tikka's and most shot excellent, a couple of them were just ok. About the same track record with rem 700's.

I'm still waiting for my Tikka bolt handle to fall off, and for the gun to go BOOM when I click off the safety...Oh wait, that is the M700! haha

After having eight Tikka's 5 were great shooters and 3 were good, that is 3x better aveage than my other brand guns.

Question: was that the barrel I heard go boom?



.....somebody was going to say it...

I guess everybody forgot Remington had that problem too only with shotgun barrels. The difference was that Sako/Tikka did an immediate recall on all affected rifles as soon as they identified the problem and the bad batch of stainless steel barrels causing it, while Remington had to lose a class action suit before they recalled their defective barrels.

Remember guys, there are more important things than accuracy. Just ask anyone with a gun that cannot hang with a Tikka.

That rifle looks like a keeper!

What's Kimber selling those left-handed M84's for these days? What calibers can I get one in?

I want one of those rifles like Boxer has, only with the handle on the left...

Dude can't even hit that big square on the piece of paper!

I would sell that Tikka immediately and buy a Kimber. At least with a Kimber you would have a 50 50 chance of hitting it and your shots wouldn't be bunched on top of eachother like with a Tikka.

Sheesh!

But it is not CRF, how are you going to reload when you have to do flips down the side of the mountain to avoid being ate by a charging chipmunk?

I run 'em over with a four wheel drive -- horse drawn -- can't get much more primitive than that.

You smart ass!

You know you can't get a new M84 in left hand.

Can hardly ever find a used one either. If one went up for sale you'd have to race me to get it too!

A very good friend bought a Kimber Montana this year and I was hugely disapointed in the quality, fit and finish as well as the accuracy. His son bought a model 70 ew at the same time and the difference was stark with the model 70 far better in every aspect.

He took it on a bear hunt with me this spring and the stock didn't hold up very well. It scratch easily and chipped too. I would take a Tikka any day and with the price difference I could buy two Tikkas.

southwind -

I have no reason to be prejudiced for/against the Kimbers. However I've read many more complaints about the Kimbers than the Tikkas.

Some report very poor accuracy and others like you report lack of quality.

I have a sample of ONE Tikka and it fits in with most of the reports here. The accuracy is much better than average, the trigger breaks like icicles and I have NOT touched it to tamper with it. It came that way.

No doubt the Tikkas are nice rifles. They just don't do it for me. Awesome shooting to the OP.

I bought a T3 lite stainless because I felt obliged to take an 06 to Africa with me. That is a long argument won by the Shootist. At any rate I had decided to hate the ugly duckling but It shot so well, handled so well and the trigger was handsdown the best factory trigger I ever squeezed on a rifle that it has become my go to rifle for my normal NA game. When my PH's rifle started throwing bullets all over, he asked to borrow my spare for the remaining 8 days. He insisted I use it the last day so I could say I hunted it in Africa.

I would have given it to him if it had been possible, but I am ever so glad that I could not. It is now the rifle I grab whe running out to shoot bear or wolves bothering the livestock. It always works with the first shot. Cold or heat do not affect function or POI.

Yes I like it in spite of the stainless and plastic. I am having a wood stock made for it just because.

The good thing about kimbers is your plywood lasts a long time, because the shots are dispersed everywhere.