Thread: Rifle choice: $1600 budget

Originally Posted by jackson21

This is 100% correct and thought this was common knowledge? Get away with maybe shooting a 223 tikka off a bipod like a varmint as not much recoil, but others you are better off over a pack or bags.

Have a Tikka in a Manners and had that bedded and free-floating same as a custom in a Ken Henderson, it has a alloy bedding block but I still bedded that as thought the action load wasn't spread out enough where it was loading on the bedding block.

Tikka's shoot well because they make great barrels and have amazing quality control, the action tolerances are also excellent.

Was the Ken H stock noticeably better after bedding?