This is a somewhat impossible question to answer.
I only own (currently) Remington 700's in high power, some out of the box were excellent some were awful!
From what I've seen this is kinda true of all the various top makers like Remington, Winchester, Savage, etc,. Quality just plain varies a substantial amount because of the price range, parts, assembly, etc,. Except for Mossberg, I don't think they make anything worth having (my opinion).
The worst problem seems to be barrel quality variation from good to really bad!
I don't own one (Tikka) but I have a feeling the reason they have a really good out of the box reputation is because they use the Sako barrels on them.
I only own (currently) Remington 700's in high power, some out of the box were excellent some were awful!
From what I've seen this is kinda true of all the various top makers like Remington, Winchester, Savage, etc,. Quality just plain varies a substantial amount because of the price range, parts, assembly, etc,. Except for Mossberg, I don't think they make anything worth having (my opinion).
The worst problem seems to be barrel quality variation from good to really bad!
I don't own one (Tikka) but I have a feeling the reason they have a really good out of the box reputation is because they use the Sako barrels on them.