Tell me about your PROBLEMS with Savage rifles...

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I've owned two of them. 110 30-06 and 223 tactical.
Both where absolute tack drivers, no question about it !
 
Well I took the plunge...

Just ordered a 10fp w/HS presicion stock. Im looking at about 3 weeks till its in, so now Ive got to look for bases and rings. I will use a bushnell elite 3200 10x tactical scope for now, but will upgrade soon. Im also going to get into reloading...its been an exciting day for me;)
I spent alot today...If I had a girlfriend she'd kill me.
 
I used Simmons bases & rings on both of mine ....... Very much rock solid !:D
 
I bought a used 111 (tupperware stock) in .22-250 with a great big cheap Tasco scope on it for a low price several years ago. When I took it to the range it would not group well at all for a .22-250 - two or three inches at 100 yards was about it. Checked all the usual suspects, scope mount screws, bases all were tight. However the action screw in the triggerguard was noticably loose. Tightened it up good and snug and tried to open the bolt. Unsuccessfully. The screw was long enough to create an interference fit with the bolt when snugged up. Ground a couple of threads off the screw, put the rifle back together and went back to the range. Voila! a 1" .22-250. Which I know is no great shakes for a .22-250 but for factory stuff and a cheap scope and a bargain basement price. I replaced the scope nearly immediately with a Nikon 3x9 and lived with the stock for longer than I should have. I finally replaced the stock with a Choate sporter (still a cheapie, but a LOT stiffer than the Savage tupperware) and put a Sightron SII on it this spring. Now it shoots winchester white box inside that same inch, sometimes but not always inside 3/4" approaching 1/2". Which I still say for a cheap gun with cheap ammunition is darned good. So problems yes, insurmountable, no, and maybe that was why it was on the rack for low $$$.
 
Recently I posted about how my 10FP was misbehaving in terms of extraction. The brass would get to within 1/4" of the port before it fell off the extractor hook and landed in the boltway. I disassembled the bolt, cleaned everything, polished the sides of the extractor hook, reoiled everything and put it all back together. Of course at this point I'd never read anything about how "impossible" it all is! Well after all my work the doggone thing still failed exactly the same way. The next morning I took the rifle out of it's case to check that it was still misbehaving because I was on my way to the gunsmith and didn't want the embarassment of a "works fine from what I can see..." sort of moment. So imagine my surprise that it now works! All I can figure is that there must have been some grit stuck on the ejector plunger which must've been the cause all along.

The much maligned stock on these rifles isn't nearly the problem that it's made out to be. My rifle has a best ever five shot group of .19 center to center at 100yds in it's plain "tupperware" stock. What I'd like to improve on by replacing the stock is the pistol grip. The McMillan A5 represents an impressive upgrade whilst still allowing easy access to the safety. One thing many shooters don't notice about thumbhole stocks is that tang, bolt and reciever safeties are impossible to operate with your hand in the grip. The McMillan design isn't a thumbhole however it's still vertical in the pistol grip thereby allowing all the advantage of the thumbhole yet still allowing access to the tang safety. One thing I've had no luck with is pricing an A5 for the Savage. Anyone who know's what'd run and where I could purchase one would be helping me out by posting or PMing me.
 
Well I just got done disassembling/cleaning my bolt after a "hot load", taking it apart and puting it back together is easy. There's just a few things you have to watch out for while you're putting it back together. Not hard if you just pay attention. There is a washer adjustment forward the firing spring for protrusion and there's another adjustment for the firing pin stopping nut apparently. You have to make sure by engaging your firing spring to check for a .05''ish protrusion and disengange to see that there's clearance. You then need to make sure that the forward motion isn't stopped by the cocking piece pin, but by the stopping nut. Also when you pull the bolt retaining pin, I was told to mark it and make sure you put it back in the same position so as not to hamper the firing pin.
 
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