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Old 02-10-2019, 12:29 PM
JSH JSH is offline
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Savage keeps messing around with the platform, they will loose some followers.
Messed with bolt spacing, messed with bottom bolt release and the magazine.

The magazines of early savages were staggered in the magazine box and fed that way, as a great many do.

Then for some reason they decided that was not good enough. The box below the top round is still staggered, but the one next to feed is in the center.

They have no stock of magazine boxes for the early style. The center feed just plain sucks. Try to load the damn thing with a scoped rig,better yet use a one piece base and try and load the magazine.

Someone needs to make after market sheet metal magazines for various popular cartridges for the stagger feed,mthey would sell.

I see savage getting to big for their britches. Seems like the tacticool crowd has designed some, rather than the practical folks. IMHO it wasn't broke but they fixed it. I can easily today swing over to all Remington actions and have a few Remage rigs for me to tinker with, with the plus of a LOT more options than Savage has.
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