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#10MinuteTalk - Tikka Actions — What Makes Them So Great?

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🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

If you know Ryan Muckenhirn, you know he fancies Tikka rifles and their actions. But why? What makes them so great? Mark Boardman and Ryan run the bolt on this topic, covering the glass-smooth, economical, high-performing actions found on Tikka rifles and a fair bit more.

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0:00.0

What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic here, joined by my good friend, Mr. Ryan Muckenherne.

0:07.8

Now, if you've listened to the podcast before, which we hope you have, if you know anything

0:12.4

about my good friend, Ryan Muckenherne, he loves teacas. And one thing that he loves about

0:18.2

teacas is the teeka action. And I will say, it is pretty sweet, Ryan.

0:24.8

It's about as good as it gets.

0:26.0

Let's, let's talk about this thing that's coming on, you know, a pretty modestly priced

0:31.2

factory gun. I'm going to pull the, I got the chamber flag in here. If you're watching

0:35.8

on YouTube, I'm pulling the flag. I'm pulling the 10.

0:38.0

Just for those watching who are in question, there's no cartridges in that magazine.

0:42.4

We'll leave the magazine out.

0:43.4

Yeah, we'll just leave it out.

0:44.4

But this is a significant talking point later.

0:45.8

It is. Yes.

0:46.8

Yeah.

0:47.8

Let's talk, let's go back to the, what's your origin story with the teeka action, right?

0:53.5

Well, teekas, for me, always represented a pretty special rifle because they've always

0:58.9

been very economically minded for those pursuant of a new rifle. And when I worked in a gun

1:05.9

shop way back when, when I was a lad, we carried teekas. And I always thought it was interesting

1:11.8

that people would pick them up, look at them. They'd run the action of which really there

1:16.6

is no other factory action that has the same feel, the same smoothness, slickness, nothing

1:22.7

like that. Or they'd be like intrigued and curious about it. And then they look teeka

1:29.5

or ticka. And then they'd see Finland on there. But I've never heard of it. They'd put

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