Tikka actions vs Custom Actions

[Marbles]

Custom and this isn’t a contest imo, why start with a budget bad design imo when in a custom you can have a premium well designed action. The recoil lug design is the Achilles heel to all these modern so called factory rifles. It’s a cheap money savings design to curb materials and cut cost. If tikka would simply use a Remington type recoil lug, and Sako, and benelli, and Sauer, and most all euros, then that solves it for me and I’d have no problem with any of them, especially tikka with the aftermarket support.

There is a difference between aesthetic preference and an Achilles heel. There is also a difference between a "cheap money savings design" and an Achilles heel.

Can you share stories of failures to feed/fire or NDs related to the recoil lug? Something not easily correctable and not possible with a lug attached to the action?

 

[Bowfinn]

My first "custom" was on a Bighorn. It went click a few times trying to deal dirt naps.

I now have two Rokslide specials and about to put together a third.

Apparently it's normal for Remmy and Remmy clones to go click and not bang if the trigger gets dirty or icy. Or go bang when you don't want anything.

My friend found this out when his 700 trigger froze up on him in freezing rain/snow conditions a couple years ago. Now he hunts with a tikka.

 

[Formidilosus]

I don’t know what yall are talking about. These “custom” 700 based actions are so bad ass- it’s not like they fail with even a smudge of dust…..