Buying A Precision Rifle: Tikka Tac A1 Pt.1
Some of the younger members of my club [which means people under 60] have been saying good things, very good things, about the Ruger Precision.
Now on Gen.3 there’s a growing choice of factory calibers and aftermarket barrels, parts and it takes Pmags. Down on the south coast at OMR’s club there’s a whole cadre of owners. At both clubs .308 Nato and 6.5mm Creedmoor are neck and neck in numbers.
In Spain Bergara Rifles offer their riff on the idea. They have an excellent reputation for their button rifled barrels, and have wisely chosen to build their rifle on the Remington 700 footprint. If you wanted to develop a rifle from one; you can have your choice of 100′s of stocks, triggers etc, and it takes the proven and readily available AI magazines. Money pit, fun money pit, but a money pit I can’t allow myself to be sucked into. This time.
On every thread I read; where someone was asking where to drop their hard-earned, there was the ‘That being said Now try the Tikka’ comment. I have never shot a Tikka that wasn’t accurate and amazing value for money. Asking about; people who wanted one because their mate has one shed out and bought the Ruger, people who have shot both bought the Tikka.
The Howa guy is yet to return my calls. Not even sure you can even order the Savage here.
I was feeling pretty swayed, but you know, cash is king. There just weren’t that many second hand Rugers in Creedmoor, even fewer Tikkas in general, and no sign of a Bergara.
We had a couple of false starts while I traveled in the wrong part of the north, with my ticket back at home I couldn’t take delivery. We prepared to do a dealer-to-dealer exchange, then the seller announced his work had scheduled a meeting for him in central london. We agreed to meet in a business traveler hotel just down the road from an office I myself am occasionally compelled to attend. I was envisioning something out of James Bond or Lord of War, with a sniper rifle laid out on the bed. Just in a cheaper hotel.
“Sorry it’ll be a day later and they’ve moved me to another hotel”. The next day he found he had no hotel, ‘but don’t worry there are plenty of meeting rooms at the london office’.
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