WA do you actually believe yourself? Calling the Miroku guns "less quality" than the FN built guns is ludicrous. Unquestionably they both are FINE QUALITY arms, but there is no discernable difference between the two, certainly not enough to call one a lesser gun. The whole "Belgian Browning" hype has always been comical too me, there hasn't been a dimes difference in them it was all just marketing and even racism as folks wanted everyone to believe that Europeans could build guns better than the Japanese. Look at the rest of the products that come from Japan. Lexus has single handidly KICKED Mercedes and BMWs arse into the weeds and their cars are typically only 50-75% the cost of their European counterparts. A Nikon Monarch Gold is as good a scope as ANYTHING from europe and costs less than half!

My nearly 30 year old Miroku Citori hand me down is as tight and exact today as the day it came over on the boat. And it is a HUNTING gun whose bluing is silvered and the wood is dinged, hell at one time it had camo tape on it and was used to shoot steel at ducks with in the early 90s. It is one of my most favored guns. The other Brownings I have are equally great pieces as well. Sure if you are looking strictly at value and collector pieces from a strict monetary point of view then you should pick euro Brownings. I personally like to find the Miroku built A5s and early bolt guns because they can be bought for half or less what their euro counterparts are sold for! Likewise my SS Abolt 7mag is probably the gun I would stick with if for some reason I had to get rid of all my other rifles. It's just TOUGH and shoots like a dream. My sons have a BLR22 and it shoots as well as my tack drivin 10-22.

Now Tikka wise, let me say I really like the guns quality and they shoot circles around most costing twice as much. BUT they are ugly as homemade sin and like was said, I HATE a gun that uses one size for all actions. That was my complaint with the first run of Sako FinnLights, they put longactions on the WSMs. I know it's for cost savings and Tikka is Sakos value line. But they just are so dad blamed featureless and fugly. I consider them a "European Savage". BUT like I said, they shoot well and too alot of hunters that's all that matters and you can kind of use my "fugly woman good in the kitchen/bedroom" analogy with Tikka as well. Since they aren't a true shortaction I would stick with the good ol 7mag in a SS T3 Lite.

Good luck,
RA

ps
WA if a "Miroku Citori" is your definition of cheap I would hate to see your excuse for expensive []