Yeah, Tikkas are fine, until you have a magazine fall out.....just enough to not cycle a round, from the junky release being tripped by brush. Or having the safety inadvertently pushed off by brush, because the safety is both easy to move and short in stroke. Major negatives that I've encountered with the Tikka T3, which I haven't seen happen with Ruger 77s or Remington 700s.
Man you must be one unlucky SOB. I’ve dragged Tikkas up and down the mountains sheep hunting, slung to a pack , on 4wheelers, in and out of gun boots, in river boats, experienced slips and falls and have literally never experienced any of the above. Nor has any of my buddies that shoot Tikkas or I’d surely hear about it!
