I'm saying you've leaned on that story about a gunsmith in another forum seeing a rash of broken Tikka bolts twice now and haven't bothered to toss us a link.
To quote your words from earlier in this thread "Cite?"
It wouldn't do any good with you probably, I've already posted a Tikka owner with a broken bolt. Here's a Tikka plastic trigger guard breaking during a hunt:
"I was on a local deer hunt about 3-4 years ago when a guy dropped his T3 down into a small gully. The impact smashed the trigger guard and boogered up the trigger; he had to complete the hunt with a spare rifle. It was not a huge deal; he just hiked back to the camp to swap rifles and continued the hunt.
That impact/consequence was no doubt a fluke occurance, and I'm not sure that a sintered aluminum trigger guard would have fared any better.
But it certainly taught me the wisdom of steel trigger guards and other such bits when on a once-in-a-lifetime hunt far from camp."
Another one:
"Real First Hand account here (happened to me in 2007):
Rifle: Tikka T3 chambered in 6.5x55mm
Scope: Leupold Rifleman with Leupold bases and Burris Zee Rings
Temperature was about -5 degrees celcius.
Just shot a nice 4x4 Whitetail out in Drayton Valley. The deer was in a full out run. Hit him in the spine just behind his shoulders (*DAMN*, running over quickly to put it down humanely), in my haste and excitement, went to extract the spent case and run another round into the chamber, but used a tad bit of force....
The bolt came out into my right hand, and gun in my left!?!? "WTH", I said.
Thought I may have inadvertently pushed the bolt stop/bolt release... Looked closer, and upon inspection, realized that I had completely sheared off the pin holding the bolt stop/bolt release and spring in place!
"
Another:
"I had a tikka in 300wm . on more than one occasion after firing a round and lifting the bolt ; it locked in the up position somehow and would not go down. it had to be removed and put into a vise to turn it back. doing this broke the plastic bolt shroud."
It's also speculation that it broke during normal use, and seems less likely given the nature of the fracture and scoring up of the parts. It depends on what the circumstances were what would happen to the bolt of a quality gun. None of my Winchesters have had a broken bolt... Then again, neither have my Tikkas
Precisely, I put old Chuck on exactly the same level as my fellow forum members. I conclude individually who I think is worth paying attention to, and who is not... Chuck Hawks falls largely into the latter category.
Like the forum member here who thinks standard Western hunting methods are 'dubiously legal'.