Tikka chance on me
Rimfires, particularly the .22LR variety are probably my most-used and most-loved guns. A mooch around your ground with a decent .22LR slung over your shoulder is a great way to spend any spare time you have, and to steal a phrase from an old work colleague, let the ‘armed ramble’ commence!
Most vermin and game can be taken with the .22LR – leaving longer range foxes and deer out of the equation obviously – the .22LR is a truly useful tool. The criteria it has to fulfill to satisfy my needs are: quiet; cheap to run; and hopefully light and deadly accurate. If the package is short and compact that’s even better, that’s my personal take on things, but I think this brief is not uncommon among vermin hunters across the country. Trying to get review rifles during these different times has presented some challenges, and some necessary family commitments had me in a bit of a corner, until a good friend said I could try his Tikka T1X–so I graciously accepted the offer of a fully assembled and zeroed package that was already shooting extremely
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