ORIGINAL: stubblejumper
Here is a quote from another thread.
I dont think that a off named rifle like tikka (I have never heard of a tikka)will shoot a group better than 1 inch with a 30-06 strait out of the box.Some companys can claim such thing as they must shoot a 1 inch 5 shot group at 100 yards but little acually test it like they claim
Would any of you tikka owners like to comment on these statements?
People love guarntees. Have yet to see anyone take companies up on thiers, and see them make good. Only group I saw yet to actually was FN. A friend was having troulbe with his FN SPR A1 and the head guy there, told him to bring it on down to Fredericksburg, VA and they would fix the problem with him there.
I have seen some of these new crap tikkas, very accurate, and some no so much. Depends on alot of things like ammo, wind, shooter. American rifleman did a test a while back and they coudlnt' get it to hold up to its guarantee. I myself would go with a vanguard well before a tikka.