| TilleyMan |
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| 10/07/08 09:35 PM |
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Tikka M55/M65
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NakiHunter's post on the BSA thread jogged my memory...
"Just to digress a bit.....I have a Tikka LSA 55 (same as the Ithaca LSA 55 in the US) in 222 Rem & it is a fantastic rifle. This is my first center fire rifle which I bought on Christmas eve in 1993. I shoot 5 shot groups of 0.5 to 0.8 inch at 100 meters very often - not just once in a while. My best was a 200 meter group of 1.32 inches for 5 shots followed by 1.65 inches & a 2.5 inch group with a flier in a Deer Stalkers' Club competition! I am sure that a better shot than I could do better with that rifle. I had another in 308 which I got on a trade for a Rem 660 Mohawke 243. I traded it again for a Sako hunter 308....
The triggers on those Tikkas are the best factory triggers I have seen so far in my limited experience."
A couple of mates in the early 1980's had Tikka M55's in .222 and they were outstandingly accurate... half MOA straight out of the box using Norma factory ammo.
The palm-swell stock was very comfortable and the triggers were indeed excellent!
Drop forged alloy steel, fully machined (no investment castings!), fully floating barrel with individually cut and lapped rifling and the M65 long action featured not one rear safety lug but TWO!
I bought a box of old shooting magazines and brochures at a garage sale recently, and lo... a 1979 Tikka Catalogue, from back when they were a serious competitor to Sako...
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a396/TilleyMan/TikkaM55.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a396/TilleyMan/TikkaM55exploded.jpg
Edited: Brochure Cover, M65 links added:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a396/TilleyMan/Tikka1979BrochureCover.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a396/TilleyMan/TikkaM65.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a396/TilleyMan/TikkaM65exploded.jpg
M77 U/O shotgun and M07 Combination rifle/shotgun added:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a396/TilleyMan/TikkaM77-M07.jpg
Edited again:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a396/TilleyMan/Tikka-M-Series-Mounts-web.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a396/TilleyMan/Tikka-M-Series-Scopes-web.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a396/TilleyMan/Finlander-Ad-1971.jpg
Australian Sporting Shooter Tikka M55 Review April 1972:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a396/TilleyMan/Tikka-Finlander-Page-1.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a396/TilleyMan/Tikka-Finlander-Page-2.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a396/TilleyMan/Tikka-Finlander-Page-3.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a396/TilleyMan/Tikka-Finlander-Page-4.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a396/TilleyMan/TikkaCentrefireRifles.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a396/TilleyMan/TikkaAccessories2.jpg