What is your deal with Tikka?
We use several (as in quite a few) as trainer rifles, match rifles, let alone hunting guns. We beat the crap out of them, they get literally thousands of rounds a year put through them by people who don't care a bit about breaking something. All it has resulted in is more Tikkas being bought by a bunch of dudes that shoot an azz ton of rounds and can and do have just about any gun they want.
Action length, recoil lug, bolt shroud, magazine.... None of it matters. They work. I've seen hundreds of hunting guns shot and Tikkas are the most consistently accurate guns out of them all.
They are not perfect, but they are no muss-no fuss. Load and shoot.
