Thread: A different Tikka to the Tararuas

Originally Posted by Tentman

Great yarn. I started hunting in the beginning of the 80s with a brand new Tikka LSA 55 in 308. I got my first deer with it in the Tiramea in fairly short order but man after that it was a heck of a long time between drinks. I bet a heck of a lot of those early 80s Tikkas got carried a lot not many rounds fired at animals! None of them should really be worn out!

Ha ..... sounds like my experience. Shot my first deer with an open-sighted .303, and then bought a Tikka M55 in .308 in 1978. Between first and second deer was 19 hunts, from memory ....did manage to tip up quite a few hogs in that time though.