Tikka Hunter/T3 Lite
01-15-2011, 01:37 PM
#22
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Idaho
Posts: 1,081
I really have no personal experence with them, but my dads best freind has one in a 270WSM and he regrets buying it, it doesnt shoot compared to his other rifle, a Kimber Montana in a 270, he is really disappointed in it. Also read what Chuck Hawks has to say about them, he is not paid buy the manufactors to review there products, he tells it like it is. All the gun magazine wrighters are paid by the manufactors, you cant beleive what they write, when was the last time you read a reveiw of a firearm by a nationally sindicated publication that said a rifle wasnt any good? They are promoting guns for a benfit of making a profit, not tell the truth.
01-15-2011, 08:54 PM
#23
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 1,143
01-16-2011, 09:54 AM
#24
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Mar 2006
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01-30-2011, 03:59 PM
#25
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: MN USA
Posts: 1,392
Tikka T3 ("entry level rifle") someone said?? If you mean the bullet "enters" where you aim consistently shot after shot and the animal drops down, down down. Yeah, I'd agree..... LOL
Tikka T3 is a very accurate rifle made in the factory next to Sako rifles, many of same components (e.g. barrel) and features as Sako rifles with equal accuracy (i.e. sub MOA 3 shots within 1" at 100 yds). You can pay a whole lot more on a "non-entry level rifle" (whatever that means) and not get the accuracy as Tikka T3.
Savage has come a long way on accuracy, too, I read. I don't own one though.
Remington is still fighting the stigma of their 700 which had design flaw that allows a certain % of them to fire without any depression of the trigger (even the designer of the rifle admits).
Ruger historically has been knocked for triggers that weren't smooth, but have very strong actions and Mauser "the claw" extractor for reliable cycling/extracting. I've read that they've improved the trigger in recent years. Decent accuracy. Not up to Tikka standard for accuracy.
Tikka T3 is a very accurate rifle made in the factory next to Sako rifles, many of same components (e.g. barrel) and features as Sako rifles with equal accuracy (i.e. sub MOA 3 shots within 1" at 100 yds). You can pay a whole lot more on a "non-entry level rifle" (whatever that means) and not get the accuracy as Tikka T3.
Savage has come a long way on accuracy, too, I read. I don't own one though.
Remington is still fighting the stigma of their 700 which had design flaw that allows a certain % of them to fire without any depression of the trigger (even the designer of the rifle admits).
Ruger historically has been knocked for triggers that weren't smooth, but have very strong actions and Mauser "the claw" extractor for reliable cycling/extracting. I've read that they've improved the trigger in recent years. Decent accuracy. Not up to Tikka standard for accuracy.
Last edited by MinnFinn; 01-30-2011 at 04:03 PM.
01-30-2011, 04:41 PM
#26
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 80
I have two Bennellis, Browning Bar, Browning A-bolt, two bolt action Savages, two Winchesters and a 243 Tikka Lite. It was the last gun I purchased and the most gun I have purchased for the money. All my other guns have been to the gunsmith for at least a trigger job but not the Tikka. Will shoot 3/4 moa with factory ammo and less than 1/2 moa with hand loads. Best action and trigger of any rifle I have. I am at the point in life where I can buy any gun I want and if I were in the market for a rifle it would be a Tikka.
01-30-2011, 06:07 PM
#27
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Posts: 5,130
"I am at the point in life where I can buy any car I want and if I were in the market for a car it would be a Volkswagen."
...............and I believe it too ! LOL
Downsouth got it right !!!
"For what I paid for the Tikka, I'm very happy with it, and plan on keeping it a long time!"
...............and I believe it too ! LOL
Downsouth got it right !!!
"For what I paid for the Tikka, I'm very happy with it, and plan on keeping it a long time!"
