Two barrels, one Tikka?

[HuntHarder]

If you are close to the poverty line, I suppose this is a good idea. With how inexpensive Tikkas are, I just opt to have multiple rifles for quick and easy cartridge changes.

 

[bojangles808]

Does anyone use a Tikka setup with multiple barrels? Is this common?

I know the factory barrels are tough to remove but once that's done, it seems like a simple swap. I have a Tikka in 6 creed and a new to me 308 barrel that I'd like to start shooting/loading for.

Unthreaded Tikka are pretty cheap right now if i was to buy for a donor action, but when you add a stock and optics and it gets expensive. I'd rather just swap barrels back and forth as the mood strikes, are there any pitfalls to this I'm not considering?

Edit to add: I'm thinking I'd switch a few times a year, at most.

West Texas ordinance does a switch barrel system and can do it for tikka. You have to send in your action though. I haven't done it just know a guy that did. Seemed kind of expensive not really sure what the point is I'd rather just have two rifles

 

[Speaks]

Swapping a barreled and scope action between a common stock would be easy enough. Pic ring scope not that bad either. Barrell seems like a giant pain.

 

[Axlrod]

I have been through this with T/C Contenders and Encores, a Tikka, a few CZ 457's and a couple Savages. It seems like a good idea, but in reality when you want to go shooting do you change barrels or just go shooting with the barrel that's ready? In my case I changed barrels once, and that was it.
Now I have several Tikkas and Savages, half dozen CZ 457's and a few T/C's- all complete guns. With a few spare barrels and stocks leftover.

Then there are the convertible handguns...