Well I must say I for one love the tikka t-3's. I've bought 3 of them in the last two years. It wouldn't hurt my feeling if the plastic wasn't there, but if thats as bad as it gets I can live with it. Smooth action, awesome trigger, good price and many other nice features. Used to have mostly remy's but the tikka has spoiled me. Last week I spent an hour at gander mt. looking at all the rifles thet had to offer and kept coming back to the tikka and sako. The short bolt lift is one reason, why after paying $500-$600 and up should I spend even more for a trigger job like most of the other brands need. I think for the money the tikka's can't be beat. Granted a lot of my reason's are personal tastes, but I would still recommend a tikka to anybody. Try cycling the bolt on the other guns and then a sako or tikka, to me this speaks of quality.