TassieTiger wrote:I’ve never personally (as in when I’ve been present) seen a howa shoot anywhere near what owners have claimed - but, It’s been well established mr Howa, I mean Flutch, that your a special case indeed lol. Clover leafs all day from various ammo is not the norm...
How do we do a pole? - I’ll put your testicles on it, that based on any real world criteria (including value for $), tikka would be voted ahead of a howa 2:1...
All the Howas I’ve shot were ok, but agricultural in action and creepy triggers (marlin/weatherby vanguard types of workhorse comes to mind). I couldn’t comment on consistent accuracy as I was simply trying before buying...but a tikka? they are not close...
Again all subjective, and sure pay twice as much if ya keen on that, and maybe you don't know the right people if you haven't seen them shoot like that, probably more to do with the shooter than the gun, case and point I also know someone with a 223 howa mini action who couldn't hit the sky aiming upwards. As for the triggers mines a grand total of about .3lb with 0 creep and $0 spent on triggers or trigger work... It's all subjective. As for made in Finland, sure whatevs, howa are made in Japan, don't see too many complaints coming from Japanese engineering and QC. Sako are nice but then once you're in that price bracket you could have a custom made and tuned rifle... So meh. I also have a Remington, and don't complain about that, and a Ruger and no complaints there either. Objectively I don't think there is any difference in quality between howa and Tikka, after all Sako employed howa to make their stuff for a fair while there and weatherby still do for the vanguard range which is another well priced and accurate rifle. Again with the action, very subjective, mines smooths as can be... Seems you just haven't seen good howa's, I have seen plenty of ****** tikka's as well as some good ones... But I don't rate the accuracy and build of those good tikka's any higher than my howa, and that's just being purely objective after all had the tikka's been that amazing in comparison I would have bought one.