Thread: Tikka 3 lite 270

Originally Posted by ebf

Lee, MOA guarantees mean just about nothing... It is a sales gimmick...

With almost any manufacturing process, there are variances. Every single rifle chamber is slightly different. If you add to that mix some factory ammo that has not been tuned for that particular chamber, and a shooter who may or may not be using optimal technique, expecting the rifle to be accurate to the mythical sub MOA level is not exactly realistic.

I could give someone a finely tuned target rifle and some custom hand loads that I know are perfect for that rifle, and if the shooter is having a bad day, they could still struggle to hit a 3 inch disc at 100yds...

On the flip side I can take an old clunker that most folks will tell you is a piece of shit, and fairly easily turn it into a decent rifle just by spending a bit of time on the crown and working up a good hand load for it.

Generally though, Tikkas are accurate rifles. I don't agree it's a gimmick, there must be some substance to the Tikka, and Sako, 3 and 5 shot Guarantee or people could return them for failing to live up to that part of the guarantee.
I am not saying for a second there isn't bad ones that come out the box, but in general they seem to live up to what they say.