Which rifle to buy?

[Skunk]

Just today I was visiting my son and of course I had to look at his BDL in 300 ultra mag. I'm not crazy about the caliber, but I sure do marvel at the high gloss finish on the stock and the overall fit and finish of the rifle. Its a shooter too.

I'd love to have a 700 and thinking hard about getting one. Plus, it's made in the good old USA.

Skunk

[Tikkabuck]

I'm just wondering, on what data base does one conclude that a Tikka will shoot more accurately than a Remington 700?

  From an owner and builder of both I can verify what he's saying,I can make a Remington shoot as good as a Tikka with the very minimum of a trigger adjustment and sometimes more. But most Tikkas in the same price range will out shoot a Remy coming straight outta the box,no fidlleling around. Lots of Remy's that won't do well with a bedding job or a trigger adjustment will most likely make you happyl with the barrel recrown. Why take a chance,Tikkas and Sakos offer a 3/4" group garenttee. Allthough I've never had to use it.

[jro45]

Which rifle to buy isn't a hard question at all : Remington, Remington, Remington.

[Cement Man]

Tikkabuck,

Just curious... When did Beretta lower the Tikka accuracy guarantee from 1" to 3/4"?  It's only a quarter inch, but that is significant when you get down to sub-moa.

[Tikkabuck]

 Hey There
  Been that way since they were imported by Stoeger,I havn't had a Beretta catalog in a a year or two though. I'll see if I can find a link to post.
       See Ya

[Zachary]

I also have never heard that the Tikka guaranty went to 3/4".  Hmmm. 

Zachary

[kyelkhunter3006]

Yep, that's news to me too.  Last ads I've seen in the gun rags for both Tikka and Sako just say MOA, not .75 MOA.

[Tikkabuck]

 Dang I musta had a 50 year old brain fart.
   First I did a few search's and like you all said MOA is what they are saying now and for awhile it seems. So on went the old woolies and in the basement I've been, busting through old nasty smelly ,yellow magagzines and looking for old Stoeger/Sako/Tikka catalogs for about 3 hours,I think the spiders were waiting for me to fall asleep so's they could dine.

  Here's what I did find in the old ads. in 1999 Tikka was saying their guarantee was a 3 shot group under an inch at 100 yards(not 3/4's sorry),also found this in an old Jerrys wholesale cat..

 By 2001 Beretta was now the importers and Sako still was producing the Whitetails without the Beretta engineers messing around,and said this in their ads" Tikka rifles do not leave the factory without shooting a three-shot group of one-inch or less at 100 yards". This was also in their ads and catalogs in 2002.

 After that everything T-3's and is MOA/1" at 100 yards. I stand corrected,humble myself and beg your forgiveness.  I've still got box's to go through ,I know it's there somewhere.

[no guns here]

Blaser R93... I have Remington, Ruger, Marlin, Winchester, Savage and a Springfield.  Blaser costs about what two or three of the others cost, but it is for lack of a better word... phenomenally accurate and cycles much faster than any of the others.  I've shot three now that were not accurized in any way and have shot clover leafs at 100 consistently with .375 H&H, .308 Win and 9.3x62.  It's my next gun... just have to save the money.  Wife bought a grandfather clock this weekend so there went a chunk of my Blaser and Drilling money...


ngh