Maybe a little Tikka competition?

[16Bore]

Price is what you pay, value is what you get. I've got a $300 SWFA on my 1:8 223 Tikka that will hang with them all. My 8x42 Vortex Diamondbacks smoked my Zeiss Classics. Rifles aren't complicated and European models are a hard swallow for some. Until the American manufacturers try to copy them. That's why "plastic" Tikkas suck but its OK on a Kimber.



Case in point, I bought a used Miroku 0/U for $500. Change the label to Browning and its a grand.

Some don't know that Miroku makes Brownings....

 

[GKPrice]

Price is what you pay, value is what you get. I've got a $300 SWFA on my 1:8 223 Tikka that will hang with them all. My 8x42 Vortex Diamondbacks smoked my Zeiss Classics. Rifles aren't complicated and European models are a hard swallow for some. Until the American manufacturers try to copy them. That's why "plastic" Tikkas suck but its OK on a Kimber.



Case in point, I bought a used Miroku 0/U for $500. Change the label to Browning and its a grand.

Some don't know that Miroku makes Brownings....

I shot a Moruko OU 12 for many years, If I'm not mistaken Moruko also has manufactured some other well known rifles and shotguns for a mighty long while too ....
Anyone who would badmouth a Tikka due to their use of 21st century technology just needs to get out more ... a "bargain" will ALWAYS be a bargain and if that means a reliable well made ACCURATE hunting rifle in the process then all the better - and, "marketing" will always be just that

I'll have to take a long look at those Diamondback binocs then ....

 

[16Bore]

They are either stupid good for the money or I'm blind. I'm liking the FOV and with 8's, low light was damn interesting. Had the Zeiss mounted on a tripod and Diamondbacks on top. Going back and forth was the trick.

 

[HUNTCOAK]

This is exciting to me! I've been looking at rifles in the 6.5 Creed for a while now. I wouldn't be looking if Tikka chambered it but such is life. This rifle is going to have to be added to my list of 6.5 rifles to further complicate the final deciding process.

 

[huntabsarokee]

Old post but just wanted to add I just picked up the Hunter and it weighs 5.48 pounds in 7mm-08. To me at $750 its a great deal for the guys that want a light weight backpack gun. I looked at the Savage 16 lightweight hunter which is a little less $$ but weighs a hair more. Probably couldn't go wrong with either. Now I just hope it shoots well. Off to order up some Talleys.

 

[GKPrice]

I'm looking at my new Hunter in 6.5 Creedmor as I write this - scale says 5lb 7.1oz naked - and it's "skinny" ! "Tupperware" stock feels very solid

 

[CorbLand]

Old post but just wanted to add I just picked up the Hunter and it weighs 5.48 pounds in 7mm-08. To me at $750 its a great deal for the guys that want a light weight backpack gun. I looked at the Savage 16 lightweight hunter which is a little less $$ but weighs a hair more. Probably couldn't go wrong with either. Now I just hope it shoots well. Off to order up some Talleys.

Let me know how this shoots. I am looking to get one in the next 3-4 months and would like some feedback on what you think. I am debating between the Hunter and the Montana. My buddy has the Montana so I have first hand knowledge but I like the price tag on the Hunter better.

 

[GKPrice]

Let me know how this shoots. I am looking to get one in the next 3-4 months and would like some feedback on what you think. I am debating between the Hunter and the Montana. My buddy has the Montana so I have first hand knowledge but I like the price tag on the Hunter better.

I too have both and the Hunter seems to come to the cheek a bit differently for me

 

[huntabsarokee]

I think the stock feel really solid on it too. I was comparing it to the Savage lightweight hunter at the gun shop. Definitely points different than my Rem 700. Need to order Talleys today but deciding between lows and mediums.

My scale says 5 pound 7.7 oz

 

[GKPrice]

I think the stock feel really solid on it too. I was comparing it to the Savage lightweight hunter at the gun shop. Definitely points different than my Rem 700. Need to order Talleys today but deciding between lows and mediums.

My scale says 5 pound 7.7 oz

Ya, to "my" hands this Hunter stock feels every bit as solid and the Montana and I like the way the rifle mounts better each time I try it - I might add another '06 to my safe when they show up

 

[luke moffat]

Ya, to "my" hands this Hunter stock feels every bit as solid and the Montana and I like the way the rifle mounts better each time I try it - I might add another '06 to my safe when they show up

Yes sir had the 06 to your stable but then bore out the barrel to the proper diameter

 

[GKPrice]

Yes sir had the 06 to your stable but then bore out the barrel to the proper diameter

Yes Luke, that too ......

 

[Ndbowhunter]

I think I speak for more then one rokslider when I say that firearms are equivalent of ounce smart, pound foolish.

Tikka's are a good cheap gun that you can shoot in a variety of calibers with factory ammo. I have a superlite 300wm with a swfa 3-15. I'll lose a pound on my waist before I get a crazy lite boom stick when buck fever hits.

As a puukko carrying, sauna taking, grandson of a 39' winter war veteran whose favorite gun is an m39 vkt on a 1895 Receiver My lust gun is an American rifle (NULA in 7mm-08) tho with a Japanese made scope but I'm just too damn frugal to change.

I'd take a sako (sock o not sake o) 85 carbonlight, that dry carbon stock is sexy as!

The winter War of 39 has a lot of really neat weapon history especially when you consider weapons and hunting and the like. A bunch of the 28 Olympic biathlon rifles were used during the war, the most famous being Hayha rifle.. Early m39 tikka and sako were re arsenal Russian rifles to a sub MOA standard. A lot of guys like my grandpa used their moose guns (government issued) on unsupported military sorties..(funny enough his first rifle purchase here in the states was a mod 94 30-30) Pretty much the same as us modern western hunters on winter late season elk hunts but obviously the goal was ruskies and not game. That winter was so frickin cold, as it was passed to me, a lot of days were minus, and some went as low as 30 below. Living in a snow caves, shooting feral reindeer and trapping small game to keep alive.

Sorry I got sidetracked there..If ur already eating porridge for breakfast and the wife's got a leash on you go superlite especially if your eyeing longer calibers.

Go Kimber if you gotta be light, but I'd still look elsewhere in the pack first