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…..

 

[JFK]

The industry is too far down the rem 700 road to admit they hitched their wagon to the wrong horse.

 

[SanAntonioShooter]

So it’s true that all Tikka T3X prefits will fit the Sako A7?


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[Hondo64d]

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…..

What action and what trigger?

John

 

[TheSBW]

A man, famous for the parts he sells, and rich enough that he could shoot anything he might want, once told me (Paraphrasing slightly ) "if the government is paying get a TRG, if you're paying get a T3"

 

[Formidilosus]

What action and what trigger?

John

Bat Hammerhead, and Geissele Super 700 in two-stage mode.

But it’s doesn’t matter- they all do it. I have 5 “custom” R700’s in the trailer- none of them go more than a hundred rounds or so between problems when actually being used in the field. Ironically, the most reliable R700 pattern guns… are actually Remington 700 factory actions.

 

[TheSBW]

So it’s true that all Tikka T3X prefits will fit the Sako A7?

Ive been told that too

 

[Judd]

Serious question, do you all clean your rifles? I've used my rifles in the south/west/central dirt/dust of Texas and OK and on Rangers/CanAms for week to 10 day hunts and I've never had a "smidge" of grime like that. If they look like ass, odds are they need cleaned. That rifle needed cleaned days/weeks before it failed in the video...jus sayin'

 

[Marbles]

Serious question, do you all clean your rifles? I've used my rifles in the south/west/central dirt/dust of Texas and OK and on Rangers/CanAms for week to 10 day hunts and I've never had a "smidge" of grime like that. If they look like ass, odds are they need cleaned. That rifle needed cleaned days/weeks before it failed in the video...jus sayin'

I disassemble my tikka bolts maybe once a year. I have literally tossed them out of boats into mud and rinsed in the river. Or had a dying hog kick mud all over the action and sprayed it with a hose as the only cleaning.

If you need to baby a rifle, it is a toy, not a tool...jus sayin'

 

[glock233]

Serious question, do you all clean your rifles? I've used my rifles in the south/west/central dirt/dust of Texas and OK and on Rangers/CanAms for week to 10 day hunts and I've never had a "smidge" of grime like that. If they look like ass, odds are they need cleaned. That rifle needed cleaned days/weeks before it failed in the video...jus sayin'

Cleaning does help R700 actions. But they’re shit-tier reliability either way.