I have a Seekins havak element and a t3x in 6.5 creedmoor and both have the same SWFA 3-9 on them. I’ve spent a good bit of time shooting them side by side over the past several weeks and I still really like both.
As has been mentioned, the Seekins has a custom level action and is nicely bedded into a good stock, I really like the built in pic rail too. I like the trigger tech trigger and I’ve used them on several other rifles over the past 5 years with no issues. I also like the shorter barrel (but I wish it was like 3” shorter) on the Seekins and that it is already threaded for 5/8x24. Off the bench and prone as well as off a vanguard shooting tripod I’ve found the Seekins to shoot really well. I have a few loads that are shooting really well (.3moa) out of it using a 140g eldm and another with the 143g eldx. In fact everything loaded worked great but I want to shoot the 140g eldm.
My tikka is pretty utilitarian and that in itself is really nice. I have the factory stock, sportsmatch rings and an SWFA 3-9 on it and other than the mountain tactical bottom
Metal and an atlas rail for my bipod it’s completely stock. The only ammo it hasn’t shot well is hornady American white tail. It looked like I was shooting a shotgun. My tikka currently dosent get shot suppressed because it isn’t threaded so hard to do an EXACT comparison as I’ve only shot the Seekins suppressed.
With that in mind, it’s amazing how fast a light rifle gains weight. That 5.5lb Seekins with scope and silencer pretty quickly got over 8lbs which is fine but it feels bulky to me. The scale dosent lie but it just dosent feel like a nice compact hunting rifle, I probably just need to get used to it though. The tikka remains around 7.5 lbs and just feels nice and slim, packs around well.
I’m lucky I don’t have to choose between them and I got the Seekins mostly because I had gotten rid of a few other rifles, I had the money and wanted to try something different (I have 4 tikkas). If I was going on a goat hunt tomorrow, I’d likely grab the tikka but who knows, that may change by hunting season.