Sparks you've got to be from Wisconsin... "frozen tundra" and "even if the Tikka shot more accurately, I'd still buy the Ruger"!?!?

What thae Hey?

So many posts I read about Rugers are qualified by "after I replaced the trigger assembly" or "had it rebedded". That's not "out of the box" accuracy. You could probably buy just about any rifle and put enough custom work into it and have an acceptable or possibly even pretty accurate rifle.

You get a high quality rifle, very accurate, reasonably priced, well designed, smooth action, smooth trigger, etc. etc. "out of the box" with a Tikka. No kidding, no replacing this or that. The choice is clear to me and a whole lot of other Tikka owners. The head man at a gun shop I bought 2 from in the last 3 years told me they sell more Tikka rifles every year than any other firearm brand or type (handguns, shotguns, rifles). That says a lot to me.