Not looking to pick a fight here, but can someone explain to me the utility of having a Tikka in a short action. I mean the action length, weight, and usually barrel length is the same. If you’re going to get a .308, might as well make it a 30-06. If you’re going to get it rechambered to .358 Winchester, you might as well make it a .35 Whelen and so on and so forth.
It's simply a manufacturing convenience and probably keeps costs down a bit. If the other characteristics of a Tikka appealed to me, I wouldn't sweat 1/2" of action length. We managed to survive with short rounds in Mausers and pre-64s for a good while before short actions became common. Non-issue for me in a hunting rifle, and occasionally the long action allows seating bullets out to some advantage with minor mods to mags and/or bolt stops. And there can be good reasons to go with short rounds even when the same rifle can be had in the "long versions". Different strokes.
