Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles tikka t3 hunter or browning a-bolt

looking to purchase a .308 and trying to decide between these 2. anyone have experience with both and what is ur preference?

Tikkas are mighty slick

Let me think on that one....back later today.......

Tikka.

looking hard at the tikka hunter love that walnut stock

Is this a serious question?

yep

Tikka's feel cheap and awkward to me, like a kid's toy. They feel like they're made of plastic, and cheap plastic at that. The bolts feel flimsy too. That said, in my very limited experience actually shooting them, they are very accurate.

I don't think I have ever done more then hold an A-bolt up, so I will withhold judgment. They feel more solid but that's about all I can say about them.

Tikkas only feel like a toy because they are so light. I have one Tikka, but another one on order. They are a super accurate rifle, and companies are taking note because there are a lot of aftermarket goodies hitting the market for them now.

I just bought a stainless T3 in 243. It has the best trigger of any factory rifle I've ever shot. Working up a TTSX load for it and as smooth as it is I am tempted to get an 06 or maybe one of those 9.3x62's

Let me put it this way - I'm no huge fan of the Tikka, though they do shoot well. But I would quit rifle hunting forever if my only choice in a rifle was a Browning A-Bort.

To each his own, but owning this Tikka really has made me contemplate selling off my other guns. I have no time for heavy finicky rifles.

You can do alot worse than a T3, Sako barrel and all, but I owned an Abolt and shot others, they tend to shoot tight groups, and the new Vanguard S2 rates a look in my book. Handle rifles of interest and see what fits best. A Ruger 77 Stock in my hands is about perfect. Pros and Cons to many of the choices, most shoot better than we can when not on a bench or similar rest.

ive shot a remington 700 .270 and thats all ive really used for hunting so i hbent handled many different kinds of rifles. may hold off on the a bolt and do some more looking around

Take the Tikka and run.

A-Bolt, I hear the Tikkas shoot but they feel cheap, nothing like a Sako. My A-Bolts shoot and have never let me down.

Tikka every day of the week. I don't think mine feels cheap at all. Love how light it is and love how it shoots.

People mistake lightweight for feeling "cheap." Not sure it gets any smoother than a Tikka action.

Go shoulder both of them. The choice will be obvious to you.

I would buy the one you can get the best deal on.

shouldered the browning. felt solid. theydidnt have a tikka hunter. was gonna rush my decision and grab the browning but after reading some of these responses im gonna wait it out and look at the tikka