leftoversalmon
10-16-2011, 11:14 PM
Leftoversalmon,
After reading all the replys and the pros and cons about your problem I come to a couple of conclusions. I think the members here may have hundreds or thousands of Accu Trigger rifles that work as intended by design. I think there are a small percentage of Accu Trigger rifles that do not function as intended by design wether it is a flaw in manufacturing such as in your situation or in other cases inproper adjustment which makes the trigger go into "saftey/no fire mode" as it is designed to do.
You paid good money for what should be a very accurate rifle in good faith based on advertised statements and others results. You need to call the Savage Customer Service and explain in simple terms that the Accu Trigger can not be adjusted to the heaviest setting and function properly and that at lighter settings doesn't work at all. They will create a case report number. You should demand that they replace the trigger group and test it for proper function at both extremes of it's intended settings and give you a report as to the low and high limits they are getting with the replacement trigger.
I would be willing to bet that they wish to remedy your problem to maintain their customer service reputation as well as the reputation for producing fine firearms and standing behind them. It is just good buisness practice.
Make the time and call them. Get names and keep a record of date of purchase and conversations etc. They like all manufacturers can produce a bad one every once in a while although that percentage is very low. It's sad that you had to be one of the extremely few that had a bad first experience.
I don't want to make you feel worse but I purchased my first center fire rifle in 2008 based on member reviews and some research online. It is a Savage Varminter (VLP) single shot .223 with Accu Trigger set as low as I can get it without tripping the sear lock up and it has worked flawlessly in bench rest shooting from day one. The rifle is more accurate than I am as a shooter, and I have shot one hole, no clover leaf five round groups at 50 yards with my 1955 Winchester model 75T with very good ammunition so I do have some skills just haven't reached the levels yet that the VLP offers
Best wishes and get that thing fixed as you'll love it...
Pete K.
I will be calling Savage once I get the chance. I'm going to ask that the trigger be replaced w/ their top model. I will also ask about the ejection issue. I will post about the end result.
I understand that companies produce flawed products from time to time. But it also seems like they are using the AccuRelease as a sort of crutch. Because without it they would have to either increase QC or increase minimun trigger weight to prevent missfires in cases like mine. Like I said my father has the same problem as me, not as extreme but he can't reach the advertised pull weight without lock ups either. He called them and all they said is that the trigger pull would need to be increased. To me thats not an acceptable answer and I figured I would recieve the same treatment. Thats why I came here. I wanted to see if others had the same problem and what they did about it.
It does seem that many of the people on this board have an Accu Triggers on their rifles and they like them. Maybe something is wrong with my trigger group. I came to the conclusion that the design is faulty before coming to this board. Because before coming here I saw 2 triggers with the same problem. But mabye the design isn't faulty and just the result of poor of QC. But no mass production is perfect in this aspect. Whats more important is that they correct it.
Like I said I will call and post my results once all is said and done.
After reading all the replys and the pros and cons about your problem I come to a couple of conclusions. I think the members here may have hundreds or thousands of Accu Trigger rifles that work as intended by design. I think there are a small percentage of Accu Trigger rifles that do not function as intended by design wether it is a flaw in manufacturing such as in your situation or in other cases inproper adjustment which makes the trigger go into "saftey/no fire mode" as it is designed to do.
You paid good money for what should be a very accurate rifle in good faith based on advertised statements and others results. You need to call the Savage Customer Service and explain in simple terms that the Accu Trigger can not be adjusted to the heaviest setting and function properly and that at lighter settings doesn't work at all. They will create a case report number. You should demand that they replace the trigger group and test it for proper function at both extremes of it's intended settings and give you a report as to the low and high limits they are getting with the replacement trigger.
I would be willing to bet that they wish to remedy your problem to maintain their customer service reputation as well as the reputation for producing fine firearms and standing behind them. It is just good buisness practice.
Make the time and call them. Get names and keep a record of date of purchase and conversations etc. They like all manufacturers can produce a bad one every once in a while although that percentage is very low. It's sad that you had to be one of the extremely few that had a bad first experience.
I don't want to make you feel worse but I purchased my first center fire rifle in 2008 based on member reviews and some research online. It is a Savage Varminter (VLP) single shot .223 with Accu Trigger set as low as I can get it without tripping the sear lock up and it has worked flawlessly in bench rest shooting from day one. The rifle is more accurate than I am as a shooter, and I have shot one hole, no clover leaf five round groups at 50 yards with my 1955 Winchester model 75T with very good ammunition so I do have some skills just haven't reached the levels yet that the VLP offers
Best wishes and get that thing fixed as you'll love it...
Pete K.
I will be calling Savage once I get the chance. I'm going to ask that the trigger be replaced w/ their top model. I will also ask about the ejection issue. I will post about the end result.
I understand that companies produce flawed products from time to time. But it also seems like they are using the AccuRelease as a sort of crutch. Because without it they would have to either increase QC or increase minimun trigger weight to prevent missfires in cases like mine. Like I said my father has the same problem as me, not as extreme but he can't reach the advertised pull weight without lock ups either. He called them and all they said is that the trigger pull would need to be increased. To me thats not an acceptable answer and I figured I would recieve the same treatment. Thats why I came here. I wanted to see if others had the same problem and what they did about it.
It does seem that many of the people on this board have an Accu Triggers on their rifles and they like them. Maybe something is wrong with my trigger group. I came to the conclusion that the design is faulty before coming to this board. Because before coming here I saw 2 triggers with the same problem. But mabye the design isn't faulty and just the result of poor of QC. But no mass production is perfect in this aspect. Whats more important is that they correct it.
Like I said I will call and post my results once all is said and done.