Tikka vs Christensen

[atmat]

Tikka all the way.

Last month a thread was started by a guy here praising how good Christensen’s are. His post history revealed that 50% of his CAs were lemons that he had to ship back to CA to have fixed. And yet somehow he was defending them passionately for standing by their warranty.

 

[bigunit]

FYI a 7mm08 tikka is easily reamed to 280ai. Modify the bolt stop and get a long action mag and youre in business.

 

[EastTX Jess]

This ^^^^^! Or, keep it a 7mm-08 and load some max loads with 6.5 Staball. You’ll have less recoil and the animals will think they were killed with a big 7mm.

 

[Jlwatts]

I know on this forum everyone hates on Christensen but I purchased a Mesa in 7mm rem mag last year and it is a great shooting gun that doesn’t seem to be picky at all with ammo. I would 100% buy another Christensen.

 

[gtriple]

Just buy a Tikka!

 

[tipsntails7]

Generally, it’s hard to not say tikka, throw it in a stock, get a new barrel if you want and you’re at the cost of a CA FFT but probably a better gun.

That said, I came across a new CA FFT in 280Ai with a deal I couldn’t walk away from about 6 months ago. It is the most accurate gun in my safe and is just over 1/2 moa.

I’ve also seen stock tikkas out of the box that cost 600 dollars shoot just as good.

Older CA’s seem really hit or miss but the FFT’s seem to be much better.

 

[Colson12]

I am currently shooting a Bergara wilderness terrain in 7mm rem mag. It is way too heavy. I need something that is more light weight and am stuck between a Christensen arms fft or a tikka roughtech superlite. I want a .280 ackley but the tikka price point is way more appealing. I don’t have experience with either shooting wise and was curious on opinions. I will be hunting elk/deer with it mainly and I have a night force nx8 for the rifle.

Between my dad and I we have 4 tikkas and I can’t say enough good things about them. Very accurate and dependable, they are my go to guns at a much cheaper price

 

[deerhunter628]

I have 4 Christensen Arms that all shoot great. I have 2 Tikkas that also shoot great. The Christensen Arms rifles look better to me, but im not sure the better looks is worth the extra dollars.

 

[Hnthrdr]

Own 2 CA’s, own 4 tikkas. 0 issues with the tikkas. 1 CA is a tack driver and so nice to carry. The other is Meh… it will probably get rebarreled… IMO the tikka super lite @EuroOptic is selling is about as good as it gets. No brainer in 6.5cm