Thread: Tikka?

Originally Posted by Toby

Aw come on Gibo thats not nice. He didnt directly call you gay

Damn shame we don't have a shirt-lifter emoticon.

Originally Posted by Shearer

Buy it.

You should also add, "and if it is not what you want, then you can sell it to another forum member even cheaper"

Originally Posted by Toby

Aw come on Gibo thats not nice. He didnt directly call you gay

He must be a 270 owner?
They do seem a bit different


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With all this talk of gay rifles, I am surprised no one has suggested getting a Blouser

For a no frills out of the box go shooting rifle they are a good bang for buck and the bolt is very slick and easy to strip down and clean. But what I didn't like is to single feeding them the ejection port is to small and that very distinct hollow plastic sound when hunting in tight stuff. I am the same as Dogmatix up graded to a Sako.
If you want bling the Remington's have far more aftermarket parts.

and as for Tikka's being gay its all how you hold your hand.

Thanks for the feedback guys, jokes aside I'm off shopping


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Originally Posted by Pengy

With all this talk of gay rifles, I am surprised no one has suggested getting a Blouser

Wanna come camping with me?
Make sure you take the price tag of your new blouser before we come back😆

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This might help you decide which calibre to get
7mm08 users mostly live in Parnell and Ponsonby and do most of their hunting online. Look - there's a couple online here right now.They compare gun magazines and buy the ones with the most gloss to the cover paper.
I have actually shot a couple of deer with a 7mm08, but it left a bad taste in my mouth. I don't know, I just felt ashamed.
.308 users are generally, well, how can I say this; simple folk. Salt of the earth. But not academically inclined.
.270 people are fairly stern sort of chaps. Not inclined to brook much talk about guns and calibers because, you know, they have got a .270. What more is there to talk about.
.25/06 people are just weird. I'm sorry. Its true.
.303 guys are cheap but have been doing it for a long time. They generally do quite well shooting deer for their daughters weddings and other social ocassions. They get sighted in for 25 yards, and shoot most of their deer at 15. A box of cartridges will last about two years. They often have deer parts in the back of the truck that they just forgot about.
.223 people are the ones that stand around the edge of the party grinning, but you don't really want to go and talk to them.
6.5x55 shooters are a touch intellectual, a little bit flamboyant, usually quite good rackonteers, but you wouldn't share a hut with them up the Karangarua in the rain.
.260 people are gearheads, usually young and quite defensive because the 6.5x55 is just prettier. If the cartridge came with teflon on it anywhere, they would volunteer to pay more for it.
6.5x47mm people are elitest know-it-alls - coupled with a real defensive attitude, because their cartridge is too small and puny.
.243 men are hunters. Full stop. You should aspire to their ranks.
7x57 same also. Touch of grey in the beards.
.222 shooters are fussy. I was going to use the word 'prissy'. There, I have.
.280 guys are weird as well, but weird scary.
7mm Remington Magnums are passionate hermits who solo hunt the big country. They couldn't tell you a story about what they did, because they are pretty much monosyllablic but if you look into their eyes you can see where they've been.
.300 and .338 magnum guys are the ones who camp next to you at Lake Waikaramoana and spend the whole night yelling and throwing beer cans, and then never get up the next day to go hunting. They spend the afternoon complaining about the .303 shooter who got all the 'easy' deer and then go home via Starbucks. Often live next door to 7mm08 people and lend each other "Survivor" dvd's.

One advantage of being a 270 owner and the only one I can think of is "You will quickly build up your tracking and blood trailing skills"

If you keep it for a year and you get out a lot you will have achieved Blackfella Tracka status which take others a life time to achieve. So its not all bad I guess

A great hunter I shot with brought one because he had thousands of NZFS CAC 130 gr rounds that he had received at two rounds per deer tail.

My God I could track by the time that little episode was over I can tell you. Tracking deer through pepperwood is hard with its red spotted leaves, but through red tussock its a damn sight harder.

A rather inexperienced shooter with a 270 took up a position next to me, but back a bit when I was trying to clean up a mob of deer on the tussock one day. Fuck when he fired the blast rolled me over and I have got a big fat locust that sings away in my eardrum 24 hours of the day now.

I call her Tikka.

Originally Posted by gadgetman

+1

The Tikka is just another budget rifle and shoots no better than the rest in the class listed above. They have their great accuracy guarantee but when you look at the fine print it isn't really worth the paper it's written on.

Go with what fits you best.

Except that they are a budget rifle that cost almost as much as a premium rifle, they are almost the same price as a CZ550 lux now, I know which one I would choose!

Originally Posted by stug

This might help you decide which calibre to get
7mm08 users mostly live in Parnell and Ponsonby and do most of their hunting online. Look - there's a couple online here right now.They compare gun magazines and buy the ones with the most gloss to the cover paper.
I have actually shot a couple of deer with a 7mm08, but it left a bad taste in my mouth. I don't know, I just felt ashamed.
.308 users are generally, well, how can I say this; simple folk. Salt of the earth. But not academically inclined.
.270 people are fairly stern sort of chaps. Not inclined to brook much talk about guns and calibers because, you know, they have got a .270. What more is there to talk about.
.25/06 people are just weird. I'm sorry. Its true.
.303 guys are cheap but have been doing it for a long time. They generally do quite well shooting deer for their daughters weddings and other social ocassions. They get sighted in for 25 yards, and shoot most of their deer at 15. A box of cartridges will last about two years. They often have deer parts in the back of the truck that they just forgot about.
.223 people are the ones that stand around the edge of the party grinning, but you don't really want to go and talk to them.
6.5x55 shooters are a touch intellectual, a little bit flamboyant, usually quite good rackonteers, but you wouldn't share a hut with them up the Karangarua in the rain.
.260 people are gearheads, usually young and quite defensive because the 6.5x55 is just prettier. If the cartridge came with teflon on it anywhere, they would volunteer to pay more for it.
6.5x47mm people are elitest know-it-alls - coupled with a real defensive attitude, because their cartridge is too small and puny.
.243 men are hunters. Full stop. You should aspire to their ranks.
7x57 same also. Touch of grey in the beards.
.222 shooters are fussy. I was going to use the word 'prissy'. There, I have.
.280 guys are weird as well, but weird scary.
7mm Remington Magnums are passionate hermits who solo hunt the big country. They couldn't tell you a story about what they did, because they are pretty much monosyllablic but if you look into their eyes you can see where they've been.
.300 and .338 magnum guys are the ones who camp next to you at Lake Waikaramoana and spend the whole night yelling and throwing beer cans, and then never get up the next day to go hunting. They spend the afternoon complaining about the .303 shooter who got all the 'easy' deer and then go home via Starbucks. Often live next door to 7mm08 people and lend each other "Survivor" dvd's.

What you didn't mention is that the guys shooting from 7mm magnum through to .338, only get to see a deer close up after the half hour walk over the open tops to retrieve it...all the other calibres get to look at the animals up real close.

Originally Posted by Scribe

One advantage of being a 270 owner and the only one I can think of is "You will quickly build up your tracking and blood trailing skills"

If you keep it for a year and you get out a lot you will have achieved Blackfella Tracka status which take others a life time to achieve. So its not all bad I guess

A great hunter I shot with brought one because he had thousands of NZFS CAC 130 gr rounds that he had received at two rounds per deer tail.

My God I could track by the time that little episode was over I can tell you. Tracking deer through pepperwood is hard with its red spotted leaves, but through red tussock its a damn sight harder.

A rather inexperienced shooter with a 270 took up a position next to me, but back a bit when I was trying to clean up a mob of deer on the tussock one day. Fuck when he fired the blast rolled me over and I have got a big fat locust that sings away in my eardrum 24 hours of the day now.

I call her Tikka.

Hell of a spiel for a .22 shooter...you should never have entered the "personal space" of a .270 shooter.

Originally Posted by Spudattack

Except that they are a budget rifle that cost almost as much as a premium rifle, they are almost the same price as a CZ550 lux now, I know which one I would choose!

They're sexy aye! Too bad they dont come in a decent cal. I looked at one in the latest hunting an fishing mag, wish they had a 8x57

Brilliant Stug!....and thats from a 7mm08 shooter........Mt Wellington though!!!!!!!.....flat white with one sugar.....

Originally Posted by Toby

They're sexy aye! Too bad they dont come in a decent cal. I looked at one in the latest hunting an fishing mag, wish they had a 8x57

They do, kilwell just don't bring them in to the country, in South Africa where they are market leader you can have almost any calibre you want.
My brother has just bought a .375 cz550 ebony edition., it is a thing of beauty!