That's pretty terrible. If they knew it was going to take that long they shouldn't have allowed their distributors to take pre-orders. Basically Tikka/Beretta set up a go fund me account so they could continue to develop/work out the bugs in their rifle. I could see having to wait that long a couple of years ago when manufacturers were selling everything they could make but I have a feeling that's not the case for Tikka. Like you said it would be different knowing we wouldn't get the rifle for a year up front but we've been strung along by Beretta/Tikka the whole way.