Jeffrey H. Martin
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I have an FCP-SR with K serial number. If your rounds wil not feed you can make it work. Remove the three screws and pull out the magazine assembly. No need to mess with the bedding system. The factory bottom metal is fine when you adjust via the bottom metal fit into the action bedding. It takes very little effort to do this modification. Most important is that you are not changing the magazine latching system in any way. You want to remove just a little material at a time from the inside rear tab that uses the common screw for the triggerguard. Take a standard handy file using the least coarse side and make sure you have the non cutting edge toward the floorplates rear magazine guide tab. After filing and removing juat a little metal, put the assembly back in the rifle. It is critical that you are torqueing the bolts (screws) the exact same each time. Get a torque wrench and set it for 30 Lbs. Use it each time you remove and reinstall the floorplate magazine sssembly. As needed keep removing a little material from the inside bottom of middle screw tab until all rounds are picked up by bolt. This adjustment works only if you take your time to file flat and even and then reinstall and test feeding. Always reinstall with same torque on screws. Sometimes just by adding a little more torque to the bottom metal screws you will get the rounds to feed and then you know you are close to filing it right where it works every time with the 30 inch pounds setting. This will allow the mag to set higher in the action. The Savage mags have always been skeptical but I can tell you that I have fitted other aftermarket bottom metal to Boyd stocks that present the same problem. Just have to get it to sit all the way up into the action opening. Once you get that right, by whatever means, it works every time. The difference between working and not working is surprisingly small. It is obvious that if you push up on the magazines bottom and then the rounds feed that you are looking at this exact fix to solve your problem. It is more likely to me that there is a very small difference between some rifles bottom metal and the accuracy bedding fit that can work against the correct function of the feed system vs. a so called bad magazine.
