New Tikka & Sako

Tikka has stopped producing the t3

Geez @Tussock have you reined that horse in yet :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Tussock

Sako and Tikka have new rifles. This means they have old rifles which will have super nice glossy adds in magazines with magnified boxes highlighting new features (all photographed wet) which are old features which are now made with cheaper materials, less materials and mass production machinery. They will have crisp angles and be cool colors to look like improvements. They will break. Hunting writers will say nice things about them and pretend they are different to get invites to Beretta pheasant shoots.
The rimfire option will likely have flashing LED lights, glow in the dark and have 4 in different barrels in .22 mag, .22, 17HMR and 17HM2 that fold out of the stock like the blades of a swiss army knife. A special (expensive) scope will digitally correct its self to four different zeroes depending on which barrel you fold out. It will be plastic and uglier than a $400 Savage. People who have owned a Finnfire Hunter will cry uncontrollably if they touch one.

To summarize the Blaser vs Accuracy International discussion, the Blaser is a rifle that is actually different. The Accuracy is a rifle that is actually a van, posing as a rifle. Its shaped like a van, its as heavy as a van and its as aesthetically pleasing as a van, so it must be a van.

To non military people they look military and to military people they look heavy.

Save yourself $10,000 and paint an old ford econovan olive green.

Beretta is a subsidiary of the same corporation producing computer tuned pop music and chemically addictive processed food.

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Fuck me I just spat coffee all over my keyboard and wee'ed myself laughing. Haven't laughed like that in ages, I will never look as "Vans" the same way again :D

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Originally Posted by Tussock

Sako and Tikka have new rifles. This means they have old rifles which will have super nice glossy adds in magazines with magnified boxes highlighting new features (all photographed wet) which are old features which are now made with cheaper materials, less materials and mass production machinery. They will have crisp angles and be cool colors to look like improvements. They will break. Hunting writers will say nice things about them and pretend they are different to get invites to Beretta pheasant shoots.
The rimfire option will likely have flashing LED lights, glow in the dark and have 4 in different barrels in .22 mag, .22, 17HMR and 17HM2 that fold out of the stock like the blades of a swiss army knife. A special (expensive) scope will digitally correct its self to four different zeroes depending on which barrel you fold out. It will be plastic and uglier than a $400 Savage. People who have owned a Finnfire Hunter will cry uncontrollably if they touch one.

To summarize the Blaser vs Accuracy International discussion, the Blaser is a rifle that is actually different. The Accuracy is a rifle that is actually a van, posing as a rifle. Its shaped like a van, its as heavy as a van and its as aesthetically pleasing as a van, so it must be a van.

To non military people they look military and to military people they look heavy.

Save yourself $10,000 and paint an old ford econovan olive green.

Beretta is a subsidiary of the same corporation producing computer tuned pop music and chemically addictive processed food.

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Bugger. Looks like the Mrs might need to get a firearms license too since she seems to drive an Accuracy International.

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Originally Posted by Tussock

Go outside now and paint that sucker olive green and put a tube on the front, just long enough to make turning around impossible.

When you get up tomorrow morning around it will be a cluster of very clean and very thin and very fat individuals dressed in after market digi cam cargo pants, webbing from obscure american tactical websites with nice sewn on badges of angry muscular dogs holding knives. Clipped to the webbing will be pocket knives made with lasers from material engineered by NASA, enough paracord to make an actual parachute, machined alluminium objects of intended purpose unknown, but with the practical application of catching every bit of scrub ever and torches also made with lasers with batteries also made by NASA, so bright only the curvature of the earth can stop them from being seen at night.

Don't worry, at the sight of your wife, daughter or any other female they will flee back to _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (gun store that shall remain nameless).

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Nah, they wont. They'll still be trying to untangle themselves from the seatbelts.

Actually I reckon the van would be good as a hunting wagon. Huge moon roof for shooting from, heaps of room in the boot, seats fold for a bed, 4x4ish, ... Mrs wont let me put on bigger mud tyres and borrow it much though.

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Originally Posted by Tussock

Go outside now and paint that sucker olive green and put a tube on the front, just long enough to make turning around impossible.

When you get up tomorrow morning around it will be a cluster of very clean and very thin and very fat individuals dressed in after market digi cam cargo pants, webbing from obscure american tactical websites with nice sewn on badges of angry muscular dogs holding knives. Clipped to the webbing will be pocket knives made with lasers from material engineered by NASA, enough paracord to make an actual parachute, machined alluminium objects of intended purpose unknown, but with the practical application of catching every bit of scrub ever and torches also made with lasers with batteries also made by NASA, so bright only the curvature of the earth can stop them from being seen at night.

Don't worry, at the sight of your wife, daughter or any other female they will flee back to _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (gun store that shall remain nameless).

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Jayseeeeus Tussock, I would say "go on tell us how you really feel" but I don't think we have the bandwith.

my head hurts

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.

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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.

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Reading between those lines all I hear is Blaser.

Oppps. That pesky plastic washer problem again

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Originally Posted by kiwijames

Reading between those lines all I hear is Blaser.

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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...
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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!

The blaser has any action size you want and does not have to have dedicated action lengths.
A simple catch on the magazine does it all. And is way faster than a turn bolt in any length anyway.

The Germans simply nailed it with this repeater. Simple, concentric, consistant, accurate and fast.

I really can't see the point of fucking around with old ideas and technology to get a reliable modular rifle when the best engineers in the world have already done it for you.😆


"Rifle of the century"😆

Suck it, haters😆









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Well, the T3x does have lots of worthwhile improvements but it isn't really a new rifle.
Fortunately.

Maybe the t3 does not need to be changed and might become the Nutella of the rifles:
In all its existence Nutella never had to go big on marketing or advertisement or change of logo .
A supermarket or a shop that would not keep Nutella on their shelves knew they would loose sales.
It is a bit the same with tikka for gunshops.
If it is in 7-08 ( or 308/ 270 /223 for the shops outside Auckland) ,you know it will sell!