Tikka LSA 55

[dale]

Can anyone give me any information on these rifles.

I have recently bought a second hand .243 for my 9 year old son to use on Springbuck, Impala and Blesbuck.

The rifle shoots like a dream and the action is as smooth as butter.

Regards.
Dale

 

[Umebo]

A nice Finnish rifle, likely from the 1970's. LSA is short for "Light, Strong, Accurate" which pretty much says it all!

LSA-65 is the long action version. Tikka is short for tikkakoski which means woodpecker if I remember corectly. Quite logical considering that they started out as a machinegun manufacturer.

 

[DG870]

Great rifles. I bought a used Ithaca (Tikka ) LSA 65 in .222 about 30 years ago. These were imported by Ithaca in the 60s? and has Bofors Steel stamped on the barrel, (same as Sako rifles).

Very accurate rifles, take good care of the magazine, they are almost unobtainable and very expensive if you find one.