One of my good friends ordered a Tikka 3 Lite in 300 WSM, yeah I know.
I took his rifle to my Smith to put a muzzle brake on it. I like the rifle's accuracy, and it's fighting weight is 7.5 with scope, trigger isn't bad, but that brake is nasty loud, and it does knock recoil down quite a bit.
My model 70 is a push feed synthetic, 7mm rem mag. It will shoot with any of those Tikka rifles though and I paid less then half what he gave for his rifle. My rifle isn't as light as his but the action is every bit as slick and maybe as fast with me behind both rifles as he's not as experienced a shot as I am.
After cleaning his rifle, right out of the box, I do like the simplicity of the action but that's where it's stops, I do like the m70 trigger better stock trigger to stock trigger.
All in all we'll see how he makes out with it in the future.
In this poll I'm a Winchester model 70 fan, but I'm a big fan of consistant accuracy..