I have swapped bolts into various actions and always landed within tolerance for headspace. That same level of consistency also translates over to the actions. To this, I respond very rarely does speed trump accuracy. The only complaint I have heard about the Tikka barrels is that they tend to have slow twist rates.
I think this is mainly due to the consistency that SAKO (SAKO manufactures Tikka rifles) can obtain through their cold hammer forging and precision machining. Since this first experience, I have yet to see a Tikka that would not put five rounds under an inch with good ammo and a solid shooter. To this day, I still feel the stock trigger on the Tikka rifles is as good as anything you could buy for under $150. He replied he had simply backed out the trigger pull weight adjustment screw. I asked him how much time he had spent polishing or doing whatever other kind of trigger magic to it. It was as good if not better than any aftermarket trigger I had felt up until that point. Then, the next day he called me up and told me he had lightened the trigger, and I had to feel it. Right out of the box, I remember it was hammering out ¾ to ½ MOA groups with some old handloads he had made up for a different rifle.
My first experience with Tikka was a friend's CTR chambered in. Over the past eight years, I have not seen a rifle that offers more value than a Tikka rifle. This is one of the areas Tikka truly shines. There comes the point where the next $100 won't buy the same performance increase as the $100 before it did. The shooter's priorities range from strictly "Budget oriented" to "Let the price be what it is going to be, I want something cool." Most people want to get "The most bang for the buck." So I tell them about diminishing returns. In the following years, I have put together many rifle packages ranging from budget setups built on the Ruger American to full custom builds with American Rifle Company actions. Those folks, like my brother-in-law, were looking for a turnkey solution to give them results right out of the Pelican hard case. Through that process, I realized many people out there wanted to shoot long range but didn't have the time or interest to assemble a precision rifle system. We used those rifles to finish 4th place in the 2015 Sniper Adventure Challenge. The first two precision rifle packages I ever put together were for my brother-in-law and myself back in 2014.
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