Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Holly crap Tikka prices went up

yes a weak dollar might make exports do better but it don't help My paycheck any as it is still the same and buy's much less.....................Nothing good for Me in a weak azzed dollar(and gettin weaker)............Hb

Funniest shidt I have ever read...a weakened US dollar being "good" for our economy.Those exporting stuff jump for glea while their money buys less and less.

What convoluted logic.

Maybe they cost more because they are using better plastics to build their rifles.

The fact our dollar is worth more than yours (and a lot of other currencies) is actually hurting Australia because our exports are less attractive to your country and many others.

A strong dollar is a mixed blessing. In the area I live we are suffering because our wheat, beef and wool costs more to export than it did before when our dollar was weaker.

On the other hand, the price of guns and components hasn't dropped here despite what our currency is doing. I don't suppose the panic buying over there will help much.

What you said was accurate. I have a disagreement with the Socialist/Communist poster that said the weakened dollar was great for Exports meanwhile leaving out the rest of the picture.

All that said...

One could still spend twice as much on another breed, and only hope it shoots anywhere near as well!

Tikka T3 Lite starts at $749.99 at Cabelas.ca in Canada.

Which, IMHO, still makes them one helluva bargain!

At the end of the day, ya still only gets what ya pays for.

There is no lapping of lugs, bedding action,freefloating barrels,replacing ISS assemblies and standing on ones head spitting out quarters to get one to shoot. They are the Iphone of the gun world.All they do is shoot and are ultra reliable.

What a crock of covered over BS!!!! The dollar this......the dollar that....economics blah, blah, blah!

An honest days work for an honest days pay.....if your working hard and getting less of what your producing it simply means someone else is taking a bigger share. GREED! Is the key word and they frigging love it when they succeed in baffling folks with there psycho babble BS!

It's the trickle down effect. Someone somewhere decides to steal and then through politics legalize there thievery and tikka and everyone down the line .....mostly the ones at the bottom get to line the pocket of the lying thiefs.

Shod

If the rising prices on these Tikka's are related to a weak dollar or whatever, then why are Kimber's still priced the same?

Because they are overpriced to begin with.

1 Euro equals
1.30 US Dollar

If Kimbers were made in finland they would be more expensive.

Oh, c'mon now! You're sounding like a socialist!

At the end of the day, the free market still dictates. If Tikka's are overpriced, then people quit buying 'em. Then Tikka re-thinks the pricing of its wares, or it moves on to something else...or it lays off its employees, goes out of business and shuts the doors.

It's still the only system that delivers the goods at a fair price, basically because it's based on production costs, what consumers will pay, and still being able to make a profit.

Two classic examples:

a) Savage 99 - popular, almost cult like following. But got too expensive to manufacture at a price hunters/shooters were willing to pay. No more Model 99, and almost no more Savage, too.

b) Winchester Model 70 post '64. Popular, but someone decided getting too expensive to manufacture and market. Cheapened the rifle...and thus got the hell kicked out of them. Bad decisions, punished immediately and hard by the free market. Ultimately, after shutting down a factory that had gone awry for whatever reasons, moving to a new facility with better tooling (and work force?), we end up with the best Model 70 ever made. All driven by the free market.

The US $$$ is worth less today than it was last year, the year before that, etc, etc, etc. What's so hard to understand about that? Common sense would tell us that it takes more of them today to buy the same stuff.

Tikkas werent a good deal when they were 550$ for a blued one. Let alone 750$ now.

The USD/Euro exchange rate has been about the same for the last ten years $1.20-1.30=1 Euro.

In South-Africa you would pay $1576 for a T3 now.

I think you guys are still lucky

Pieter

Inflation is a bitch. Me and my buddy couldn't believe that new mini 14s are selling for $700+. Back in 1986 when were two yutes, we bought them for $350. The other day I found an inflation calculator and typed in $350 in 1986 and it spit out $740 2013 dollars. It's amazing how little the dollar is worth. A million dollars 100 years ago is the same as 28 million today.