The one size fits all action for the Tikka is a minus. There not a budget rifle anymore. The other being that beauty is in the eye of the beholder but I hate ugly guns. Unless it’s strictly for utility or a cheap truck gun who wants to hunt with a fuggly rifle even if it works? Savage’s and Tikka’s IMO are ugly as sin.
I know some guys that like to brag about the accuracy of their Savage rifles. Now, I've owned a couple that I traded for, and then traded away, without ever shooting them. I've handled them, and quite honestly consider them to be among the homeliest looking guns ever made, no matter ho good they may shoot. Same way with the Tikka's, only I can attest that they shoot very well, or at least that's been my experience. But, they are not as pleasing to my eye as a 700 is.
