I agree you and old elk don't seem to have hit it off. However, if you give the man a chance, without putting him on the defensive, he's a really nice, helpful guy.
I look forward to seeing this side of him. All he has done with me so far is the verbal equivalent of pooping in your hand and throwing it at someone like a drunk monkey at a traveling circus.
I seen the pictures of Tikkas that blew up. I have enough caution and respect, for and with my firearms, that for the sake of a couple of hundred bucks, i'll err on the side of safety.
Well actually Sako had just as many or more barrels explode during that episode. Sako's and Tikka's barrels are made in the same factory. The blow ups were due to a bad batch of Stainless steel barrels that affected both stainless steel Tikka's and Sako's equally. The problem was only with stainless steel barrel's and has know supposedly been resolved. The extra couple of hundred bucks would not have made you any safer in this particular case.