Thread: My Savage 223

The Dream

A light weight, light recoiling rifle, with varmint accuracy but enough thump to take a deer at limited range. I choose the Savage Storm, reasons I liked the Savages engineering of the bolt system and inherent accuracy, the barrel twist rate of 1/10 and 20 inch barrel facilitated the possibility of a 65g Game King Projectile at a possible 3000 fps. The all weather stainless and plastic, is a major light weight, easy to carry as this rifle is going to do more walking than talking.

So purchased this rifle off a website I’m heading for shoulder surgery so decide to break in the barrel, threw together some cheap rounds for the job Shot 20 cold rounds breaking in the barrel, fire clean and on and on, single feeding as only fired a round every quarter hr. Very happy as these rounds shot about 1 moa, which was impressive considering.

Sent rifle away to be threaded for a light weight DPT suppressor, ordered a timney trigger, bought a set of talley mounts, bought a light weight quality scope. Stiffed the stock with Terminal Ballistics stock compound. All this while recovering from surgery. This is where I discovered to my horror this rifle wouldn’t feed from the magazine, I now had the most expensive single shot rifle in the land. I played around with the magazine but to no avail, still problems. By now I had made a mess of the magazine, and was about to give up and set up as a single feed, but obviously vented my dissatisfaction with the company I bought it off. No reply, how strange.

On further inspection I discovered the action was riding high, because of untrimmed plastic over the top of the pillar bedding set up. Trimmed this away, action sat where it should have been and we began to chamber.

Flicked a email to Savage USA explained the problem, they came back with no worries we will send you another mag. Thank God.
Carried on with load development, buy in different reloading ingredients, got this baby shooting half inch and better.
Savage USA get back to me, sorry you are not in the USA, you will have go thought the NZ agent, Sportways Distributors.

This where it all broke down, the biggest monopoly in sports goods Nz

Thanks for the email.

If you wanted to purchase a replacement magazine for this model, please visit your local dealer to enquire about availability and price for part no. 55230.
Buy the way we do a quality control test.
Which was provided in an attach but only checks if the magazine fits, it ability to chamber a round is not confirmed, in fact has a line threw, as not applicable.

So just saying, the next time I buy a rifle I will pay that bit more and buy locally, may even demand to put a round in the magazine and see if it chambers.

Year right

Phoned this person from Sportsways, whom informed me, I had not returned the faulty firearm and had modified it, the firearm was now working, can’t replace parts for a working firearm, so tough that’s the end of it and he hung up on me. Now that’s customer Serve.



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