Thread: New Tikka & Sako

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Originally Posted by chalkeye

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Internet forums.

You have to admit he was right about the melting plastic amax tips which few people here knew about before he posted the "news".

So, perhaps these posts are just an opportunity for folks to communicate to manufacturers a bit of a wish list or pre market opinion.

I stuck my neck out last time chris floated the udea of a switch barrel sako. Said wouldn't be nice to have one gun in 223 308 and 7RM. But no, 308 was the training calibre in the new TRG.

Anyway, i've changed my mind now and think it would be better to have a set of single calibre rifles in say rimfire 223 6.5x55 and long range magnum. They each need different scopes and you don't want to be dismantling rebuilding and rezeroing your rifle for each trip or event.

So what I'd like to see in a new tikka or sako is an economical matched set of single calibre guns that range from rimfire ( .22RF for target and 17HMR for hunting) .223 then medium and long range (eg 300 Norma Mag) with similar stock and trigger fit. For Sako brand, plastic needs to be eliminated. The Finnfire 2 was a step in the right direction. Stock options should include classic wood, laminate and CF. Plastic fantastic should probably become an evolutoinary dead end - a failed concept - although the sako grip panels were nice, maybe could be offered on a budget tikka.

Ha! That's my rave.

Originally Posted by Bagheera

So, perhaps these posts are just an opportunity for folks to communicate to manufacturers a bit of a wish list or pre market opinion.

I stck my neck out last time chris floated the udea of a switch barrel sako. Said wouldn't be nice to have one gun in 223 308 and 7RM. But no, 308 was the training calibre in the new TRG.

Anyway, i've changed my mind now and think it would be better to have a set of single calibre rifles in say rimfire 223 6.5x55 and long range magnum. They each need different scopes and you don't want to be dismantling rebuilding and rezeroing your rifle for each trip or event.

So what I'd like to see in a new tikka or sako is an economical matched set of single calibre guns that range from rimfire ( .22RF for target and 17HMR for hunting) .223 then medium and long range (eg 300 Norma Mag) with similar stock and trigger fit. Fir sako brand plastic needs to be eliminated. The Finnfire 2 was a step in the right direction. Stock options should include classic wood, laminate and CF. Plastic fantastic shoukd probably become an evolutoinary dead end - a failed concept although the sako grip panels were nice, maybe could be retained on a budget tikka.

Ha! That's my rave.

Reading between those lines all I hear is Blaser.

Oppps. That pesky plastic washer problem again

Originally Posted by kiwijames

Reading between those lines all I hear is Blaser.

Reading between Bagheera's lines all I hear is Sako.... as one of the few rifle manufacturers still making calibre specific action sizes (hence they offer something like 5 different action sizes) instead of the easier manufacture route of one action suits all calibres (Blaser, tikka, etyc...). Not to mention I like taking a different rifle out sometimes, lets the rest of them know they aren't my favourite...

Well, the encore and its elder brother the contender offered all those options , in a single shot,yes, but still, for the multi caliber aficionado they were hard to beat!